On Tuesday, March 07, 2000 12:24 PM, Karr, David
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I work with two different applications in CVS. One has a module
> specification that uses aliases to specify several subsystems. The other
> uses the "ampersand" rule. So when I do a checkout of the first system,
> that just creates subdirectories in the current directory to represent
the
> various subsystems. When I do a checkout of the second system, that
creates
> a top-level directory in the current directory, and creates
subdirectories
> in that directory.
>
> For example purposes, call the first system "foo" and the second system
> "bar". There are subdirectories "foo1", "foo2", "foo3", "bar1", "bar2",
and
> "bar3". The modules file entries for these might look like this:
>
> ---------------------------------------
> # Foo system
> foo1 -d foo1 some/complex/path
> foo2 -d foo2 some/other/complex/path
> foo3 -d foo3 some/where/else
> foo -a foo1 foo2 foo3
>
> # Bar system
> bar1 -d bar1 some/miscellaneous/place
> bar2 -d bar2 some/other/strange/place
> bar3 -d bar3 some/place/else
> bar &bar1 &bar2 &bar3
> ----------------------------------------
>
> We've been using "cvs rtag" to make version tags for the first system,
and
> I'm just starting to set up version tags for the second system. For the
> first system, we do "cvs rtag FOOKIT_01 foo". This works fine.
>
> For the second system, I tried " cvs rtag BARKIT_01 bar", and it gave me
the
> following:
>
> cvs server: cannot make path to bar: Permission denied
> cvs server: cannot chdir to bar: No such file or directory
>
> What am I doing wrong, or what information do I need to track this down?
>
In my experience you can't use rtag with ampersand modules as rtag 'acts
directly on the repository' and there is no direct mapping that rtag can
interpret. We solve this problem by checking out the head of bar and using
tag on that.
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