RE: strange "it is in the way" message

[Jim.Hyslop]

Lars Huttar wrote:
> On a Windows 2000 server, I'm running 
>    cvs.exe update -d -P -C
...
> test server. But for every file that already exists on the test
> server, I get the error,
> 
>   cvs update: move away 
> cocoon/mount/data-server/sources/BPPP.xsp; it is in the way
>   C cocoon/mount/data-server/sources/BPPP.xsp
> 
> For every file! Whether modified (locally or on the CVS 
> server) or not.

> And most importantly, files that have been modified on other
> machines and committed to the CVS server do not get updated
> (regardless of whether they were modified on the test server).
Now that's really strange.

What platform and CVS version is your repository? What's your connection
method?

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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)