Re: cvs problem

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     This occurs when the existing file is not under CVS management.
>     cvs will not overwrite it if it is not already managed by cvs.
>     Either the directory does not have a CVS/ subdirectory, or the
>     CVS/Entries file does not list the file/dir in question (that is how
>     cvs knows that a file or directory is under cvs management).
>
>     This type of situation usually occurs when you CP things manually
>     or if you PATCH something which creates a new file or directory
>     rather then just modifying existing files.

Hmmm,

the things you wrote seem to imply that there is a src directory before 
the failure (which isn't because I moved the one from the first 
checkout). Or I didn't understand you. :)

The sequence of events is:

1) cvs checkout src    <=== Successful
2) mv src src.old
3) cvs checkout src    <=== Fails

We could reproduce the problem on a friend's machine as well. Both 
systems were built in the last two days.

Regards,
Sascha

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