Jim, Quite a number of the questions on this list are from users like yourself with WinCVS or TortoiseCVS who don't realise they have CVSNT.
CVSNT uses additional metadata stored in the client CVS folder that CVS (cvshome) does not know about. This is to support the additional features of CVSNT. CVSNT can work with a CVS (cvshome) server - but some of the additional features are not available. http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/compare.htm Therefore any CVS clients that use a sandpit generated by CVSNT will not behave in a consistent manner. CVSNT is available for Linux/Unix/Windows/Mac so this is easily solved. CVSNT does not require cygwin or any other non-GPL (commercial) software. You should commit on the same platform you did a checkout to ensure consistency and ensure that CR/LF pairs and LF only line endings are not mixed in the one file. Regards, Arthur Barrett -----Original Message----- From: Jim Page - emailsystems.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 8/19/2004 7:36 PM To: Arthur Barrett; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: /#cvs.lock): No such file or directoryctory for <some directory inrepository> Hi Arthur I hope cvshome people will not mind a quick discussion, too much, on an alternative product as it is relevant to this thread. >From: "Arthur Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Using a sandpit with CVS (cvshome) and CVSNT clients is dangerous >and not supported. Since CVSNT is available for all platforms I suggest >you use it on the linux box and client. Thanks for that. I will evaluate your suggestion, certainly having a consistent cvs client product on all platforms sounds like a good move. I guess one could run cvshome on windows via cygwin or similar but it seems a rather long way round. >2. Always commit from either linux OR windows. I take it this is to avoid linefeed issues in source? Not because of incompatabilities of CVSNT metadata between platforms? Thanks Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Email the way you want it - scanned for viruses and unwanted content by emailsystems Information regarding this service can be found at www.emailsystems.com _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
