>Subject: Re: Assertion on CVS import
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:24:31 -0400 (EDT)
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones)
>
>Stephen Rasku writes:
>>
>> [stephen@lima bugzilla/bugzilla-2.10] 999 $ cvs import -I! -m
>> "Importing bugzilla 2.10" tools/bugzilla bugzilla bugzilla-2_10
>> import.c:567: failed assertion `entdata->options[0] == '-' &&
>> entdata->options[1] == 'k''
>
>You shot yourself in the foot -- you're trying to import a directory
>that contains CVS subdirectories, but you told CVS to forget the
default
>ignore list (-I!), so it tried to import the CVS subdirectories and
got
>terminally confused. Either delete all the CVS subdirectories before
>importing, add a -ICVS, or figure out what the right thing to do is
in
>this case.
>
I hope that you aren't suggesting that this is not a bug. You're
workaround will probably work as does mine (i.e. use local CVSROOT
instead of pserver). But it should at least be consistent. Either
break in both cases or work in both cases.
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Stephen Rasku E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Software Engineer Phone: (604) 872-6676
TGI Technologies Web: http://www.tgivan.com/
