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Hi Martin,
It sounds like this is probably a bug in cvs. You may wish to open an
issue on the cvshome.org site about this so it does not get lost and
post the URL to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
-- Mark
maronie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I ran into the following problem using cvs 1.11.18 (same with 1.11.5)
> locally as well as in pserver mode:
>
> I have two repositories /cvs/repo1 and /cvs/repo2
> with the directories
> /cvs/repo1/mymodule
> and
> /cvs/repo2/mymodule/doc
> resp.
>
> When I do
> cd ${HOME}/sandboxes
> cvs -d /cvs/repo1 co mymodule
> cd mymodule
> cvs -d /cvs/repo2 co -d doc mymodule/doc
> everything works fine for the moment.
> I can use cvs update/diff/commit/log/status without problems.
>
> But when I try to use cvs release:
> cd ${HOME}/sandboxes
> cvs release -d mymodule
> then I get the error messages:
> cvs update: cannot open directory /cvs/repo1/mymodule/doc: No such file or
> directory
> cvs update: skipping directory doc
> You have [0] altered files in this repository.
> Are you sure you want to release (and delete) directory `mymodule': y
> cvs release: no such directory: mymodule
>
> Of course there is no directory mymodule/doc in /cvs/repo1, it should
> be searched in /cvs/repo2.
>
> But even much worse:
> If I have modified some file in directory doc (say
> mymodule/doc/myfile.doc) the messages are identical (even "You have
> [0] altered files in this repository." !!!). So cvs obviously doesn't
> recognize the modifications I made to myfile.doc and my work is lost
> without warning.
>
> Is this really a bug or did I miss something?
>
> (BTW we chose to use a separate repository for the docs as we are
> unfortunately stuck to M$ Word documents for historical reasons - and
> you all know about the problems with binary files in cvs.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
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