Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/27/16:27:44
cygwin's cvs can only host repositories on binary (unix) mounted drives.
It can't host them on text (dos) mounted drives. What is the output
of 'mount' ?
--Chuck
Andrew Markebo wrote:
> Hmm weird, no idea, continue digging on the mailinglist, BTW What kind
> of mounts do you have, if you type mount what does it say, do you have
> more than one cvs.exe around??
>
> /Andy
>
> / Michael Labhard <ince AT pacifier DOT com> wrote:
> | Thanks, again, for the reply.
> |
> | Tried /cygdrive/c/... also without success. Init'ed repository with
> |
> | cvs -d /usr/local/cvs-repository init
> |
> | Interesting thing is that if I init another repository it works for that
> | session. When I shutdown the computer and come back to it at the next
> | session the new repository is not recognized. Here is output from all of my
> | attempts. Very confused!! Sorry to take up so much of your time but seems
> | like CVS would be important to have working under CygWin. REALLY LOVE CygWin
> | in every other way. This is the only application I have had trouble with in
> | CygWin to any major extent. CygWin is a tremendously useful piece of
> | software and I am extremely delighted to have it.
> |
> | -- Michael
> |
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~
> | $ cd projects/dde
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde
> | $ cvs -d /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository update
> | cvs update: Updating .
> | cvs update: cannot open directory
> | /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository/dd
> | : No such file or directory
> | cvs update: skipping directory
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde
> | $ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository
> | CVSROOT cvslocks dde
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde
> | $ ls c:/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository
> | CVSROOT cvslocks dde
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde
> | $ cvs -d c:/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository update
> | c: Unknown Host
> | cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde
> | $ cvs -d /usr/local/cvs-repository update
> | cvs update: Updating .
> | : No such file or directoryectory /usr/local/cvs-repository/dde
> | cvs update: skipping directory
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde
> | $ cvs update
> | cvs update: in directory .:
> | cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository
> | /us
> | r/local/cvs-repository
> | cvs update: in directory .:
> | cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository
> | /us
> | r/local/cvs-repository
> | cvs update: in directory .:
> | cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository
> | /us
> | r/local/cvs-repository
> | cvs update: Updating .
> | cvs update: in directory .:
> | cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository
> | /us
> | r/local/cvs-repository
> | : No such file or directoryectory /usr/local/cvs-repository/dde
> | cvs update: skipping directory
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde
> | $ ls /usr/local/cvs-repository
> | CVSROOT cvslocks dde
> |
> | The Owner AT HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde
> | $
> |
>
>
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