On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Didier Verna wrote:
> Each time I do a checkout, I get a bunch of messages like this one:
>
> ,----
> | cvs server: Updating bits/bbdb-filters
> | cvs update: move away bits/bbdb-filters/COPYING.LIB; it is in the way
> `-----
>
> Basically, each file in the bits and html directories produce a
> message, which is annoying. I've tried to remove everything, but two checkouts
> later, the situation reappears.
It looks like you have created the files in the repository by
doing a cvs import from some other directory, then you went to
your cvs sandbox and created the directory there by hand and
moved the files from the import directory to your sandbox with
the unix cp command (or similar).
The result is that the files in the repository cannot be checked
out over the "foreign" but same-named files in the sandbox, and
until the problem is fixed cvs will keep complaining.
Move all the offending files out of the bits and html directories,
and do a cvs update there.
Presumably the files that used to be in the bits/bbdb-filters
directory are more recent, so copy them back over the just-checked
out ones and do a commit before you do anything else. Then
cvs will be happy and will stop complaining.
Warning! I haven't done much cvs'ing lately! You might want
to do the above thoughtfully.
(ok, now I've read the other peoples' responses; that was
an interesting quote from the sources)
You say you've tried to remove everything: what exactly did
you do?
And when the other person said that cvs won't check out
a file on top of a "different" one, I think cvs doesn't do
any diff or anything to see if it is different, it just
uses info from its state (the contents of the CVS directory,
specifically as the other person said, the Entries file)
to tell if that file in the sandbox is known in the repository.
So try the solution above, remember not to erase the CVS
directories when copying your saved bits and html directory
contents back and it should work.
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