Unexpected directory-entry in CVS/Entries

2005-02-23 Thread gnu-cvs
Hi, I have a simple project in the repository: [repository-root] + test/ + sub1/ | + test1.txt + sub2/ + test2.txt Now I check out test/sub1 and test/sub2 nested in each other: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir cvstest [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd cvstest [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cvstest$

Re: Unexpected directory-entry in CVS/Entries

2005-02-23 Thread gnu-cvs
Hi Larry, Thanks for the response. No mystery, just a bit of overloading. In addition to the list of CVS-controlled files, the Entries file also contains a list of the known subdirectories of the current directory (to avoid having to scan the entire directory for subdirectories every time). But

Re: Unexpected directory-entry in CVS/Entries

2005-02-23 Thread gnu-cvs
What, if I check out test/sub1 and test/sub2 in two different directories and then move the sub2 into the sub1 directory? Shouldn't this produce the same results as with the two different checkouts as shown below? Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a simple project in the repository:

Re: Unexpected directory-entry in CVS/Entries

2005-02-23 Thread gnu-cvs
*WHAT* error message?!? I thought, in this case it was crystal clear: something like sub2/file2.txt is not available in the repository, because the sub2-stuff comes from a different repository than the one from the current working directory (sub1). -- Cheers, Tom Larry Jones wrote: [EMAIL

Re: editors get lost with running an update

2005-02-28 Thread gnu-cvs
Using the diff command is no option, because it uses E responses instead of sending the file content. This causes major troubles with non-ASCII-characters. -- Best regards, Thomas Singer _ smartcvs.com Jim.Hyslop schrieb: Thomas Singer wrote: We've encountered a problem with GNU CVS

Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-28 Thread gnu-cvs
Just to prevent an out-of-the-brain change: if they would we sent to stdout, this would break at least SmartCVS. -- Best regards, Thomas Singer _ smartcvs.com Harald Dunkel schrieb: Jim.Hyslop wrote: I can't comment on why these messages go to stderr instead of stdout, but I will

Re: cvs abusing stderr?

2005-04-29 Thread gnu-cvs
but I am sure that it can read from cvs' stdout instead of stderr, too. Yes, it *could*. But at the moment it expects this particular input from stderr and all (?) other versions of CVS servers send it at stderr. There are already too much differences between GNU CVS and CVSNT... Wouldn't