Re: Windows with Dir/ and dir/

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello,

* On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:22:33AM -0400 Derek Robert Price wrote:

> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

> >the "corrected" output is: cvs update: cannot open directory
> >/var/lib/cvs/cbm/vice<CR>: No such file or directory<NL>[...]
> >where <CR> and <NL> are the respective characters.

> This can happen if you try to make the Cygwin CVS use a workspace>
> which was created or used by a different Windows CVS (commandline,
> WinCVS, whatever...).  They leave <CR>s on the end of lines in CVS/*
> files (in this case probably CVS/Repository) and the Cygwin CVS,
> looking for UNIX EOLs, treats them as part of the directory/file name,
> sends them to the server, then the server reports
> no-such-file-or-directory since it doesn't know about "vice<CR>", only
> "vice".

I recompiled CVS two times, once on a cygwin with DOS line endings, once
on a cygwin with Unix line endings. With every version, I checked out
the module and tried to release it again.

In both cases, the result remained, so this does not seem to be the
cause.

Best regards,
   Spiro.

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