On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:08:22AM -0700, Eric / Chang-Cheng, Chao wrote:
> Hi, I am having problems trying to checkout a branch from a remote
> repository. I tried both methods, pserver and ext. Both didn't work. The
> problem seems to be that I can't pass any options to update at all. All
> options are seemed to be assumed for cvs.
>
> For example if I do
> "cvs update -r Release-05_20_2000-branch", cvs assumes that the "-r
> Release-05_20_2000-branch" is for cvs and not for update.
>
> The same goes for any other cvs commands, eg. cvs status, cvs log, etc.
> I just can't pass any options to them.
>
> If I execute the commands on the machine where the repository resides,
> everything is ok.
>
> Is there a way around this problem ??
There shouldn't be such a problem :).
Maybe your specification of CVSROOT has an annoying glitch ...
Cheers,
Matthias
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