[Savannah-hackers] [support #102459] CVS checkout of savannah module is broken

[nobody]

Support Request #102459, was updated on Fri 09/19/2003 at 11:47
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Category: CVS
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Summary: CVS checkout of savannah module is broken

By: lurk
Date: Fri 09/19/2003 at 13:02
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I just figured out this bug.  



The problem is with the directory 



savannah/etc/site-specific-content/cvs



I am running on Mac OS X and have a HFS+ partition.  This particular file 

system is case preserving but not case sensitive.  So during the checkout 

the CVS directory is being overwritten by the cvs  directory and messing 

things up.  I will just use my linux box later this weekend to grab it.



I do not know what the GNU standards are for naming files and 

directories are but I know that internally we cannot use to names that 

differ only in case for exactly this reason.  This will also cause problems 

for some windows users and OS/2 users if you care about them ;-)

  

Thanks for all your help,



-Eric









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By: yeupou
Date: Fri 09/19/2003 at 12:24
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This is puzzling.      
     
There is an hypothesis from     
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/04/08/0014.html    
     
"Yes, that's another problem with CVS: with a checkout, if      
the directory exists but is empty it complains instead of    
ignoring it.      
I'd call this a bug in CVS too."    
    
Since I havent got this trouble, maybe it's a bug fixed in    
a recent version of cvs . Can you provide the output of   
`cvs --version`  ?  
   
Recently a user was having trouble with MacOS X-provided   
cvs client -- it was a very very old client, while he had   
an up-to-date installation.   
  
If you have something older than  1.11.1p1, please try to 
get something lesser old (and tell us here). 
  
  
   

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