Todd Denniston writes: > > Actually we are probably looking at naive users who used too little > imagination in creating the > directory they feed into the $CVSROOT variable, i.e., they did (at least at > one time) > export CVSROOT=/a/directory/somewhere/on/mymachine/CVSROOT
Hmmm, I hadn't considered that the problematic CVSROOT directory might actually be the root of a repository. If that's the case, the users should rename the directory to something else since it will cause problems in the future (and is seriously confusing to boot). > i.e. CVS lets you do the following with out complaint: > cd /tmp/ > cvs -v # Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.22 (client/server) > mkdir CVSROOT > cvs -d /tmp/CVSROOT/ init Not any more -- that triggers the "Cannot initialize repository under existing CVSROOT" message that we're discussing. > Also in my copy of the cederqvist, which is admittedly cederqvist-1.11.23 a > bit old, the section F.1 > "Partial list of error messages" is partial enough that it does not contain > any text along the lines of: > cvs [init aborted]: Cannot initialize repository under existing CVSROOT: > `ProblemDir' Good point -- that seems to have been overlooked when the message was added. I'll add something about it. -- Larry Jones Rats. I can't tell my gum from my Silly Putty. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list Bug-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
