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Re: errors tracking third party sources in cvs (with symlinks to
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Finlay Dobbie |
Subject: |
Re: errors tracking third party sources in cvs (with symlinks to |
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Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:37:55 +0000 |
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:58:42 -0500 (EST), Larry Jones
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Finlay Dobbie writes:
> >
> > I'm having some problems trying to join some tags on a vendor branch
> > on a remote repository (CVS_RSH=ssh), where /cvs is a symlink to
> > /Volumes/src/cvs
>
> Older versions of CVS do not support a symlinked repository. I believe
> that the current versions (both stable and feature) do, so you might try
> upgrading your server. You could also use a loopback mount rather than
> a symlink if your server system supports them.
Actually I managed to get it to work by specifying the full path to
the repository. The problem I initially encountered was that although
using the path to the symlink failed, cvs scattered some files locally
which were confusing it later.
I <3 cvs. Or something.
-- Finlay