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On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:50:16 -0400, "Andrew Cushen" <andrew at cushen.com> wrote: >@Bo: > >> Very strange connection string, indeed. >> Why do you have the c:/CVSROOT part there???? > >The actual physical layout of the directory structure is C:\CVSROOT\[all my >working directories]. That is, there is a directory I created named CVSROOT >which is directly under the root of the c:\ drive, and all my source code is >in subdirectories under that, where each folder contains the source for one >project. >So, for instance: > >c:\CVSROOT\Project1\project with all Project1's source in the "project" >subdirectory, and >c:\CVSROOT\Project1\CVSROOT which is presumably the CVSNT-created folder > >then Project 2 would have >c:\CVSROOT\Project2\project with all Project2's source in the project >subdirectory, and >c:\CVSROOT\Project2\CVSROOT which is presumably the CVSNT-created folder > A "normal" structure would be like this: D:\CVSREPO The top of the repository. Drive could be anywhere D:\CVSREPO\CVSROOT The automatically created CVS admin module D:\CVSREPO\MyProject Folder for MyProject, contains files and folders D:\CVSREPO\MyProj2 Folder for MyProj2, contains files and folders D:\CVSREPO\MyProj3 Folder for MyProj3, contains files and folders D:\CVSREPO\MyProj4 Folder for MyProj4, contains files and folders etc... The important thing here is that *NOTHING* is stored below the CVSROOT folder that is not an administrative file for use by the CVS server only! I have seen horrors like this: D:\CVSREPO D:\CVSREPO\CVSROOT\MyProject D:\CVSREPO\CVSROOT\MyProj2 D:\CVSREPO\CVSROOT\MyProj3 D:\CVSREPO\CVSROOT\MyProj4 etc... where the CVSROOT directory was properly populated by CVS with the admin files but then it was misused as the parent for the project files!!! >So you're saying this is not a good way to go. I wanted to have all my >repositories under one directory. If you have more tghan one *repository* (not to be confused with "modules"!) then I suggest you use the following structure: D:\CVSREPOS\REPO1 D:\CVSREPOS\REPO1\CVSROOT D:\CVSREPOS\REPO1\Module1 D:\CVSREPOS\REPO1\Module2 D:\CVSREPOS\REPO2 D:\CVSREPOS\REPO2\CVSROOT D:\CVSREPOS\REPO2\MyProj D:\CVSREPOS\REPO2\MyProj2 D:\CVSREPOS\REPO3 D:\CVSREPOS\REPO3\CVSROOT D:\CVSREPOS\REPO3\SomeOtherModule etc >I guess I shouldn't have named my "master" >directory "CVSROOT", then? Apart from that, is my structure OK, assuming I >re-name *my* CVSROOT folder to something else? > >Will it break anything if I simply re-name the folder from Windows Explorer? You *can* rename and move folders around using Windows Explorer if you first stop the CVSNT service. THen when you are done you have to register the new location(s) of the repositoty(ies) in the CVSNT control panel, where you also should give these sane names like for the example above: /REOP1 /REPO2 /REPO3 Notice that you should completely remove the physical path from the published name, this makes it possible for you to move the repository around for administrative purposes without breaking anything on the client PC:s. Their checked out sandbox has no knowledge of from whwre it came on the server disk. HTH /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)