Re: Empty attic?

[Mike Ayers]

Larry Jones wrote:
> Mike Ayers writes:
>
> > cvs [rtag aborted]: cannot open directory 
> > E:\CVSROOT\cameras\cam1\doc\vendor\Maxim/Attic
> >
> > 	Upon checking, I find that the directory exists, is not read-only, and has no 
> > files in it (this is correct, as I have not removed any files from this 
> > directory).  Any ideas as to what CVS is gagging on or how I can fix it?
>
>
> Are you using cygwin?  There's some kind of a bug in some versions where
> it returns the wrong error code and thus makes CVS think there's
> something wrong rather than directory just being empty.

	I am using WinCVS.  The archive was originally created with CVS on Cygwin, but, 
unless I misread you, that shouldn't make a difference.

> I'll also note in passing that you should use forward slashes in your
> CVSROOT, not backslashes.  Some parts of CVS don't handle backslashes so
> it will probably bite you sooner or later.

	I went into the preferences of WinCVS and change E:\CVSROOT to E:/CVSROOT, 
which made it change backslashes to slashes, but when I ran the rtag command 
again, the output looked exactly the same as before.

        Would it be safe to just delete the Attic directory?


/|/|ike