Re: missing files after cvs checkout

[Mark D. Baushke]

David Shrader <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for the command! It looks like that we have run into the
> older cvs bug. The output from 'cvs log' puts the file's location in
> the Attic, and the state of the most recent version is "state: Exp;".
> We're still working on getting access to the repository, so we aren't
> able to make the change ourselves quite yet. Just to make sure I
> understand what needs to happen, all we have to do is move the ,v
> files of the problem files from the Attic subdirectory up one
> directory, and all should be ok? After that, run an update to get the
> workspace all squared away?

Correct.

Doing something like this:

  mv /path/to/file/Attic/name.c,v /path/to/file/name.c,v

should solve your problem. Of course, you should also update your
cvs server version to avoid this problem in future.

        -- Mark