Re: cvs tag - rename error

[Derek R. Price]

Howard Zhou wrote:

> Hi, All,
>
> I tried to tag a module and got the following error.
> I have a couple of question in regards to this error.
>
> 1) What is ,foo.txt file?

You left out the trailing comma.  Anyway, it doubles as the RCS file-level
write lock and scratch file.  In other words, nobody else will read/write the
archive file while this file exists, and all chages are written to the lock
first then mv'd over the original when complete.


> 2) How does cvs tag work? - move ,foo.txt to foo.txt,v?

Yes, as the last step.  This keeps archive file operations looking atomic.


> 3) How do I fix this problem?

Fix your Samba options or switch to pserver.  All sorts of people will tell
you not to use Samba or NFS to access a repository at all, of course, but some
people like to try anyhow.  Search the mail archives for more information.
This question gets asked a lot.

Derek

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> > Here are some CVS error messages for you to review,
> >
> > >cvs tag v08 gui
> > cvs tag: Tagging gui
> > T gui/.directory
> > cvs tag: Tagging gui/common
> > T gui/common/BorderedPanel.java
> > T gui/common/MsgDefs.java
> > T gui/common/MsgDispatcher.java
> > cvs [tag aborted]: cannot rename file
> > file://harvester/sw/cvsroot/mgmt/gui/common/,StringUtilities.java, to
> > file://harvester/sw/cvsroot/mgmt/gui/common/StringUtilities.java,v: File
> exists