[cvsnt] CVSNT on Win2003

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Thu Nov 27 19:30:17 GMT 2008


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On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:20:23 -0200, Gerhard <gelists at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:48:13 +0000, Peter Crowther
><Peter.Crowther at melandra.com> wrote:
>
>>You might want to read up on how CVS works.  As a warp-speed summary, there are two things you'll need to do before you can use 'cvs add' to add a file from a sandbox to a repository: you need a repository, and you need a sandbox!
>>
>>0) If you haven't yet created a repository, create it and make sure your CVSROOT is set appropriately on the client;
>>
>>1) You'll need to import one or more modules into the repository;
>
>I don't think import is necessary. At least I never had to use it,
>AFAIR.
>
>Each new repository has at least the CVSROOT module. It is accessible
>at least to repo admins. A repo admin can check it out, which creates
>a sandbox. From that sandbox, the repo admin can add other modules.
>

No, if you do that then you are hosed!
Never, ever even think of adding submodules and files to the CVSROOT
control module!!!!

What *can* be done, however, is to check out the top of the repository
to create the sandbox copy, which will include CVSROOT as a submodule.
The name of the top of the repository for checkout purposes is . (that
is a single period). Example from the command line:

cvs -d :sspi:cvsserver:/repo checkout .

(please make sure that the period at the end is included and replace
/repo with the correct repository name from the setup of the server.

You will need the -d parameter for a first checkout to specify the
CVSROOT connection string. When you later work inside the sandbox you
can omit the -d parameter.

-- 

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)


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