[Might be a dupe - I can't see results on egroups.com] CVS holmes, Here's how to get where I am: 1> Grow up learning nothing about CVS except rumors of its awesomeness (shame on me!). (This implies I did not grow up pacing the growth of the system and therefor learning its bugs as they were invented.) 2> Grab a WinNT computer, and download CVS-NT from http://betty.magenta-logic.com/cvs/ 3> Register it as a service, and plop in this Reg key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CVS\PServer] @="C:\\cvsroot" 4> Crack open a cold C:\cvsroot folder. 5> Install WinCVS, set the home directory to my project, log in with this connection string "plumpx01@plumpx01:c:\cvsroot", and set the protocol to "ntserver". 6> Try to push a file into the repository (WinCVS -> Modify -> Add Selection). 7> I get "Bad repository root '/cvsroot'" 8> Build a C:\cvsroot\cvsroot folder. 9> Try to push a file in. 10> WinCVS transcribes this: cvs add Epic.dsw (in directory C:\Epic) cvs add: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs [add aborted]: no repository Okay. I can deal. Go "Create a new repository" first. My connect string was working before, apparently. But now I get into a big argument like this: ----------------- cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01@plumpx01:c:\cvsroot init Protocol error: Root request missing cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01@plumpx01:cvsroot init Bad repository root 'cvsroot' cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01@plumpx01://plumpx01/diskc/cvsroot init Bad repository root '//plumpx01/diskc/cvsroot' cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01@plumpx01:/plumpx01/diskc/cvsroot init Bad repository root '/plumpx01/diskc/cvsroot' cvs -d :local:plumpx01@plumpx01:c:\cvsroot init cvs [init aborted]: CVSROOT plumpx01@plumpx01:c:\cvsroot must be an absolute pathname cvs -d :local:plumpx01@plumpx01:\\plumpx01\diskc\cvsroot init cvs [init aborted]: CVSROOT plumpx01@plumpx01:\\plumpx01\diskc\cvsroot must be an absolute pathname cvs -d :local:\\plumpx01\diskc\cvsroot init cvs [init aborted]: cannot make directory Emptydir: Permission denied ----------------- Now that I'v trotted out the most newbescent FAQs possible about a CVS-NT to WinCVS combination, could someone either answer these questions, or direct me to documentation on the web (other than http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs.pdf) that discusses CVS and WinCVS without assuming I already know everything about configuring them before I read the documentation? --Phlip
