[Might be a dupe - sorry.]
I'm having a hell of a time connecting WinCVS 1.1b10 to CVS 1.10.8NT. 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:
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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
NEW CVSROOT: plumpx01:c:\cvsroot (NT server services)
cvs add Epic.dsw (in directory C:\Epic)
cvs add: in directory .:
cvs [add aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing
cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01:c:\cvsroot init
Protocol error: Root request missing
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I have exhausted every e-search technique I know against these error
messages, including grabbing and reading the source code. But, as I have
followed all the out-of-the-box instructions closely I can't imagine I'm the
first to get these errors. (BTW the drive surface is NTFS, and I'm in the
ACL lists as its power-user.)
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
