Craig Dickson writes:
> 
> When I run the following command on a client computer it works as expected:
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout -d . test

Running CVS as root is nuts.  Doing it using pserver doubly so.

> However, when I run it on the box that is actually hosting the cvs pserver,
> I get this:
> 
> cvs server: existing repository /usr/local/cvsroot does not match
> /usr/local/cvsroot/test
> cvs server: ignoring module test

checkout really wants to create the directory.  The usual advice is to
run the command from one level higher in the tree with a real directory
name rather than ".".

-Larry Jones

I've got PLENTY of common sense!  I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin


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