I checked in the archives (egroups) and found someone else who has had the same
problem as one of my users is now experiencing...
> Subject: cvs export and pserver
> From: Linda Christensen
> Date: 31 August 1999
>
> I have a question about using the "cvs export" command in pserver mode. It
> does not seem to work. It checks out the files, but it also still tries to
> create CVS directories and such.
>
> One of our boxes has CVS and the repository residing on it. On that box,
> with the repository local, when you do a "cvs export <whatever>" into a test
> directory, it exports the regular program files just as it should, with no CVS
> files.
>
> One of our other boxes uses "pserver" to get to the repository. On that
> box, when you do a "cvs export <whatever>", it checks out the files, but it also
> creates a CVS directory and any subsequent "cvs exports" to get lower level
> directories fail, with errors about "unable to create file CVS/Template" and
> such.
>
> Any ideas? What am I missing here? Thanks in advance...
> Linda Christensen
> Office Technology Systems, Inc.
As far as I can see this posting never rcvd a reply.
I am experiencing the same problem using the :server: method.
Server is 1.10 on Solaris 2.6
Client is 1.10 on Windows NT (sp4?)
This is the MSVC built standard distribution.
I did look through the code and I /think/ that it always creates the CVS admin
directories on export and then cleans them up afterwards.
I thought I would try to debug it. So I built the 1.10.7 source with
cygwin (I don't have the horsepower nor diskspace to run Developer Studio).
I then discovered that :server: mode is NOT supported in cygwin.
So my second question is:
Why is :server: method not supported when built with cygwin?
I'm just getting to grips with cygwin, but I definitely get the impression that
it should support the functionality required for CVs client access using
:server: method.
Mike
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