-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dwizz wrote: > Hi All, > I'm a newbie to CVS, but so far from reading the manuals and looking > through forums I've coped, but now seemed to have hit a brick wall. > What I'm trying to do is connect to a server which has a project and > ammend the project on my local machine and then save it. I believe I > have a repository set up. > My local machine OS is Win XP > The server OS is NT > the project is called project. > > On my local machine I go into the command prompt and enter:- > C:\>cvs -d :servername: checkout -d /cvsroot/projectcvs project > > this gives me the error below:- > cvs checkout: CVSROOT "servername" must be an absolute pathname > cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT. > > Can anyone please help.
The -d parameter must specify the correct CVSROOT access method used. Since your server is running on Windows NT, I gather you are using CVSNT, not CVS. For comprehensive support on CVSNT, refer to: http://www.march-hare.com/cvsnt/ http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/ - -- Jim Hyslop Dreampossible: Better software. Simply. http://www.dreampossible.ca Consulting * Mentoring * Training in C/C++ * OOD * SW Development & Practices * Version Management -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFEEC6aLdDyDwyJw+MRAtNVAKCC16HwIp0x7iyg/rB2kpecXtd/KwCY4LMW 1K/SOFSADopRpGndd/CCGQ== =qTtA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
