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Re: Committing to CVSROOT sometimes does not rebuild the administrati


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: Committing to CVSROOT sometimes does not rebuild the administrati
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:21:44 -0500 (EST)

Reinstein, Shlomo writes:
> 
> We are using CVS version 1.10.7 on Windows 2000. One of the repository
> administrators here tried to modify the "CVSROOT/loginfo" file. He
> checked-out CVSROOT, made some changes to the checked-out copy of "loginfo",
> then committed his changes. The changes were committed to the repository,
> and a new revision was created for "loginfo", however, CVS did not say
> anything about "Rebuilding administrative file database", and it didn't
> change the loginfo file. (It also didn't report any errors!)

That usually means that there were backslashes in either the CVSROOT or
the file name he used when checking it out.  You should always use
forward slashes with CVS, never backslashes.

-Larry Jones

Oh, now don't YOU start on me. -- Calvin



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