[cvsnt] Re: local repository checkout problem

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Fri Mar 24 22:59:51 GMT 2006


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Kraly, Jay (Contractor) wrote:
> I'm having a problem checking out a module to a local repository.  The command used is "cvs checkout -d E:\ TATS".  I'm trying to checkout the module to the windows E:\ drive without the module name "TATS" as the top folder.  It creates the top-level files successfully, but as soon as it gets to the first folder it starts recursing on the E:\ drive.  The status messages look something like

You can't checkout to the root of a drive (historical - on Unix the root 
was sacrosanct). It should have stopped you TBH.  What version is this?

Tony



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