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Re: Checkout problem on cvs host
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Checkout problem on cvs host |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:32:05 -0500 (EST) |
Craig Dickson writes:
>
> When I run the following command on a client computer it works as expected:
>
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout -d . test
Running CVS as root is nuts. Doing it using pserver doubly so.
> However, when I run it on the box that is actually hosting the cvs pserver,
> I get this:
>
> cvs server: existing repository /usr/local/cvsroot does not match
> /usr/local/cvsroot/test
> cvs server: ignoring module test
checkout really wants to create the directory. The usual advice is to
run the command from one level higher in the tree with a real directory
name rather than ".".
-Larry Jones
I've got PLENTY of common sense! I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin