Re: Do I have a problem with my CVS/Entries file?

[Russ Sherk]

On 9/20/05, Steven W. Orr <address@hidden> wrote:
> To create a workspace, I set my CVSROOT and create a new directory. Then I
> cd into that directory and say
>
> cvs co .
This be your problem.  I think it may be a bug in cvs.  Effectively
this should update your current directory.  But with a new directory
(empty) I would expect that it checks out nothing (error) or
everything in your repo.

My testing shows that it attempts to check out the entire repo.  But
it fails and acts weird after it fails (my cmd window was foobar'd). 
This may be because of outdated/corrpted modules as we have some
outdated/unused modules.  But if yours is failing on a newly created
repo then it may be a CVS bug.

Anyhow, please try to specify the module name explicitly and see if
that works at least:
cvs -d$CVSROOT co LocalHostMonitorAPI src diagnostic

(Please post the results)

Regards,

--Russ

>
> Here's the result:
>
> 555 > ls
> CVS                   GuardiumCustom       SharedMemoryDriver  platform
> CVSROOT               LocalHostMonitorAPI  diagnostic          src
> GUARDIUM_RELEASE_TAG  Makefile             docs                testing
> GuardSoftwareTap      Makefile.subdirs     install
> 556 >
>
> Now the fun begins:
>
> 556 > cat CVS/Entries
> /GUARDIUM_RELEASE_TAG/1.2/Fri Jul 22 16:31:39 2005//
> /Makefile/1.6/Fri Aug  5 16:54:48 2005//
> D/docs////
> D/testing////
> D/GuardSoftwareTap////
> /Makefile.subdirs/1.1/Fri May  6 21:47:51 2005//
> D/install////
> D/GuardiumCustom////
> D/SharedMemoryDriver////
> D/platform////
> 557 >
>
> Note that the Entries file is missing src, LocalHostMonitorAPI, CVSROOT
> and diagnostic.
>
> Now, everytime I say update I get this at the beginning:
>
> ? CVSROOT
> ? LocalHostMonitorAPI
> ? diagnostic
> ? src
>
> I have to know to update those four things explicitly.
>
> Also, if it helps, I am running cvs-1.11.19-9 on the client side and
> cvs-1.11.5 on the server side. I have no errors serverside in syslog.
>
> Can someone explain this? Is it a bug? Is there a workaround (besides
> editing the Entries file manually)?
>
> TIA
>
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