Re: Unable to release - why?

[Doug Lee]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:59:14AM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> Doug Lee writes:
> > 
> > I tried with and without the second -d, but the result was always the
> > same:  "cvs release: unable to release `proj'."
> 
> Were there any other messages?  The first thing release does is to run
> update to find out if there are any modified files in the directory. 
> That message indicates that the update exited with a failure status
> (which shouldn't happen).

No other messages, and cvs update works, even when I do it from the
directory above the top level (as with release):

cvs -d /cygdrive/f/cvsr update proj

I even tried releasing a specific directory in the checkout:

cd proj
cvs release [-d] dir1

but I got the same message.  I also tried setting the CVSROOT
environment variable (it's usually not set) to make sure I didn't typo
something.  No problem there either.

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