On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:26:52AM +0200, Alexander Pohoyda wrote:
> Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Note, I do get an "hp" file when I checkout xf-4_3_0_1, but then it
> > tries to download the "HP" directory and freaks out on Cygwin.  Is
> > this the way that all other platforms work due to cvs, or is this
> > specific to my platform because you can't have two files with the same
> > name but different case?
> 
> Yes, I think that this is a letter case problem. CVS on Cygwin does
> not see a difference in names, but feels a difference in object type
> (file vs. directory).
> Perforce on Windows has the same problems.
> 
> Please manually delete `hp' file, and try `cvs update' again.

Moving hp,v to hp.old,v on the server would also help a lot. Another sterling
example of CVS's brokenness. :\

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Daniel Stone                                              <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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