Vivian Meazza wrote:
Thx for the help. Nothing worked so I did a checkout on an empty directory as you sugjested.Harald JOHNSEN wrote:
I have another probleme with wincvs. In the list of files in the explorer nearly all files have an 'unknown' state. So i don't have the diff choice when I right click on them. I've tried an update with the command line but that does not chance anything. Its a fresh install of wincvs 2.x but I had the same with the 1.3.
Harald.
I'm absolutely not a WinCVS guru. What I know about it has been learned mostly by trial and error (some of the former and lots of the latter). The documentation, shall we say, leaves a lot to be desired.
So here goes. What are the extensions of the unknown status files? Many files in the source code are generated by the compiler, and are therefore not in the repository (sorry, BGOTO) extensions .a, .o .exe fall into this category. Files which you have generated and are not in the repository also have the status unknown. Some editors spew these like crazy; they are hidden in windows explorer, but not in WinCVS.
Try selecting a directory (make sure it's not one in which you have modified files - that's not fatal, but recovering your work is a darned nuisance -, then Modify > Update. On the update screen select 'create missing directories' and 'get the clean copy'. See what happens.
Next, open some directory in windows explorer and delete the files which have status unknown (but are not .a .o. or .exe) See what happens - they should get the status missing. (If they don't they are probably not in the repository in the first place.) Then try the above again to restore them.
Finally, if none of this addresses the problem, you can always delete the directories and start over. I've had to do that several times when my copy and the cvs copy just got too far out of line. The good thing about the later versions of WinCVS is that it pretty much works, but it's not all that intuitive and takes some figuring out.
Hope none of this is teaching grandmother to suck eggs.
V.
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If cvs creates the files all is ok. It does not work with files coming from a tarball or created by hand.
Harald.
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