dear all, can someone help me parse the following (working) command line option to import files into my cvs tree: cvs -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/lgh import LG-HOWTO vendor start here's what i think is going on. -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/lgh -d means to access a remote cvs. i'm not sure what :ext: means (indicates a machine that not localhost? seems redundant), but this says to access the machine cvs.LG-HOWTO.sourceforge.net as user peiter, and i want to access the directory /cvsroot/lgh/ on that machine. similar syntax as ssh/scp. however, see below. import LG-HOWTO means to take whatever is in pwd and put it the machine:directory/LG-HOWTO, where machine:directory/ is indicated with the -d switch, indicated above. this short circuits the "checkout process". i have no idea what vendor means. is "start" really necessary? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- next. i screwed up my first time, and thought that the "LG-HOWTO" in "import LG-HOWTO" was the name of the file to import, rather than the name of the directory to import to. hence, i now have the following the directories in my cvs directory: CVSROOT/ LG-HOWTO/ LG-HOWTO.txt/ <-- mistake! i'd like to get rid of it. see http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lgh/. it seemed obvious at the time. i wanted to import the file LG-HOWTO.txt. i didn't realize that import referred to the directory to import to, not the file i wanted to import. so now i want to delete LG-HOWTO.txt/. i've managed to delete its contents, by going into the directory LG-HOWTO.txt/, removing a file, and then cvs remove file cvs commit but can't figure out how to delete the directory LG-HOWTO.txt itself. thanks, pete -- "The following addresses had permanent fatal errors..." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailer Daemon www.dirac.org/p
