Re: Problem checking out newly created module

[Larry Jones]

Mohit Kakkar writes:
> 
> ***** CVS exited normally with code 1 ***** cvs
> -d :pserver:address@hidden:/var/STCVS checkout -P -- mohit (in
> directory C:\) cvs checkout: cwd=C:\ ,current=C:\ cvs checkout: Updating
> mohit cvs checkout: in directory .: cvs checkout: cannot open
> CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory ***** CVS exited
> normally with code 0 *****

You're trying to checkout into a directory that already exists, so CVS
is trying to do an update rather than a checkout.  But the existing
directory did not come from CVS, so the update fails.  You should always
let checkout create a new directory.

> What is CVS/Entries?

It's one of the CVS administrative files:

        <http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.23/cvs_2.html#SEC19>
-- 
Larry Jones

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