serverity 288092 wishlist
thanks

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 04:03:36PM +0200, Jari wrote:
>Package: cvs
>Version: 1:1.12.9-9
>Severity: minor
>
>
>It seems that "co -d" does not understand path names.
>
>       cvs ... co -d dir ...           works
>       cvs ... co -d path/to/dir ..    gives error
>
>It would be good if cvs made chdir to path/to and then checked out
>the sources to DIR. It doesn't see to matter if these paths
>exist or not, the error is still the same
>
>       path/to                         if this exists, co error
>       path/to/dir                     if this exists, co error
>
>I think cvs should even create the directories named in "-d" if the
>did not exist, but I leave this up to the developers.
>
>The message is:
>
>cvs [checkout aborted]: could not change directory to requested checkout 
>directory `to': No such file or directory

Yes, it would be a nice feature. I'm adding it to the wishlist.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra

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