Nicholas Clark writes: > $ cvs add ../rt/local/html/Admin/Elements/DeactivateGlobalScrips > cvs server: scheduling file > `../rt/local/html/Admin/Elements/DeactivateGlobalScrips' for addition > cvs server: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently > $ cvs add ../rt/local/html/Admin/Queues > protocol error: `../rt/local/html/Admin' has too many .. > > OK. Right. So sometimes .. is fine, and sometimes it's not. Phase of > the moon? Odd or even inode? Grrr.
IIRC, it's because you're trying to add a directory. (It's still hateful, though.) That in turn is presumably because CVS doesn't really know what a directory is. (Which is even more hateful.) -- Aaron Crane
