RE: How to move a repository from linux to windows?

[Kelly F. Hickel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Hyslop [mailto:address@hidden
<snip>
> Kelly F. Hickel wrote:
> >  [Kelly F. Hickel] Yeah, that's what I thought, but I'm using the
> one I
> > downloaded at the moment, since I don't trust the one that I built
> at
> > all.  I used it to create a repo, imported a single file into it,
> and
> > all was working properly.  I even went so far as to do "cvs -ttttttt
> co
> > xyz" against both repos and compare the trace output.  It's
> completely
> > identical (except for the repo names of course), but with the repo I
> > created on windows, I get files, with the repo I moved from linux, I
> > just get the directories.
> 
> Hmmm... this is getting, uh, interesting.

 [Kelly F. Hickel] Well, buckle up cowboy, it's going to be quite a
ride.....

I'm beginning to suspect that 1.12.13 on windows doesn't really like
local repos.....

Can you try this with the downloaded windows binary and see if the same
thing happens to you???
1)  set cvsroot to some new directory that doesn't exist
2)  do "cvs init"
3)  create a directory with a single file in it (I used a .h file)
4)  do "cvs import" to import that into the repo
5)  do "cvs co " the directory name.

If I do the above, then after step 5 I have a directory with only a CVS
sub dir.  If I remove the directory and do step 5 with a 1.11 cvs
binary, I get a directory with the file in it.....

Am I missing something that was added to the feature release? Is it
supposed to work this way?

> 
> > cvs up on a file name, the file gets checked out.  Makes me suspect
> > something's wrong with the way globbing is working in the copied
> repo.
> 
> I can't see how the globbing would be affected by the location. I
> could
> be wrong, though.
> 
> What happens if you issue 'cvs update -d' from the misbehaving
> repository?
> 
> What happens if you copy one of the files from the misbehaving repo
> into
> the newly-created repo, and vice versa?
> 
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> Jim Hyslop
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Kelly F. Hickel
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MQSoftware, Inc
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