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Re: cvs [export aborted]: must specify a tag or date


From: tgrunewa
Subject: Re: cvs [export aborted]: must specify a tag or date
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:50:30 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 17, 11:28 am, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mar 14, 11:17 pm, "Mark D. Baushke" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>
> > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign sender=0x6B039C51>
>
> > My best guess is that the problem version is not properly identifying
> > 'now' as a valid time. I don't have a cvs 1.11.17 version on any of my
> > boxes and I currently do not have access to AIX.
>
> > One way to help figure out where the problem is happening is to set the
> > environment variable CVS_CLIENT_LOG to something like /tmp/$USER.client
> > and then do a command like:
>
> >     cvsexport-D now CVSROOT/modules
>
> > and now look in /tmp/$USER.client.in and see if you see something like:
>
> > $ cvsexport-D now CVSROOT/modules
> > Valid-responses ...elided...
> > valid-requests
> > UseUnchanged
> > Argument CVSROOT/modules
> > Directory .
> > /path/to/your/current/directory
> > expand-modules
> > Argument -N
> > Argument -D
> > Argument 15 Mar 2008 04:11:56 -0000
> > Argument --
> > Argument CVSROOT/modules
> > Directory .
> > /path/to/your/current/directoryexport
> > $
>
> > The 'now' when I ranthe command was the date you see as an argument in
> > the above block.
>
> > If you do not see a valid date, but instead see 'now' or some such text
> > string listed, then you will have a good idea what happened.
>
> > If the $CVS_CLIENT_LOG.in file does not exist, then the error you are
> > getting is coming from the client itself.
>
> >         Good luck,
> >         -- Mark
>
> I am in the "file does not exist" category.
>
> Tim

As it turns out, the user ended up putting shell export commands in
their .cvsrc file:

$ cat ~/.cvsrc
export CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
export CVS_SERVER=/toolshed/bin/cvs

Thanks for the help.

Tim


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