Rob, Glad to hear you eventually got the problem sorted.
As you discovered WinCVS actually uses the CVSNT client not the CVS (cvshome) client. In future if you direct questions regarding CVSNT to the CVSNT newsgroup you will probably get a more direct response: http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt or news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt Regards, Arthur Barrett -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Sisyphus Sent: Fri 4/8/2005 12:36 PM To: cvs Cc: Subject: Win32 cvs client - Unix cvs server Hi, The FAQ says that Win32 cvs clients don't get along with Unix cvs servers, and the mix should be avoided. Is that advice still correct ? I have cvs-1.11.19 (binaries obtained from cvshome website) on my Windows 2000 box, and I have cvs-write permission to a sourceforge project. With 'pserver' I can 'login', 'co' and 'update' - but I can't 'commit' any changes I make. All I ever get is: cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository Well .... I do have write access - I assume the problem is that fact doesn't get established. Any ideas on what I can try ? - something that's going to have the process prompt me for my password ? - or maybe some way of incorporating my password into the 'commit' command ? Following some advice I googled up I tried: cvs -d:pserver:my_username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] commit -m "message" file.ext But still exactly the same response as quoted above. I also found some advice on how to set the HOME environment variable in the win32 shell - which I did. I can see '.cvspass' in the specified directory - but still the same error. If what I'm attempting is unlikely to work, then I'll go back to using my linux box (where everything works fine). But that's a messy and fiddly alternative, so I thought I should first check that I'm not overlooking something simple re cvs on Win32. The list archives also turned up some posts that indicated that 'commit' is not going to work from the Win32 box, but the ones I saw were a couple of years old. I'm hoping they're no longer correct. All thoughts welcome :-) Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
