On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 03:22:44PM -0400, David Storrs wrote:
> We've got a small team and none of us are very experienced with
> CVS...I've used it before, but I've never administered it. Of the three
> people who are working from this office, two of us have no problems
> whatsoever. The third guy (Paul), has constant problems...when he does
> an update (i.e.: "cvs update" in the top-level directory of the
> project), he does not get the most recent versions of the files. We
> discovered that he did not have a CVS directory in his top-level project
> directory, so we tried inserting one manually and allowing cvs to fill
> it. That didn't work; CVS started crashing right and left.
>
> I doubt I've given enough information for anyone to solve this
> problem, but I don't even know where I should be looking...if you can
> tell me what questions to ask or what information to provide so that our
> problem CAN be solved, I would be very grateful.
Hmm, maybe you want to set the 'TopLevelAdmin' in
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/config to 'yes'? Otherwise you have always to either
specify the repository via '-d' or through the CVSROOT environment
variable when working at top of the project.
Cheers,
Matthias
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