cvs-problems

[John Sully]

ulli at cadlab.de (Ulli Blancke) writes:



>We have problems retrieving modules from cvs. To give you an exact picture
>we discribe here what we have done, but most interesting should be the
>end ....

[...]

>edit file modules to contain the line
>	ex	ex a b

[...]

>trying to retrieve the information DOES NOT SUCCEED!!!!!!
>	$ cd ~/newdir
>	$ cvs co ex
>	cvs: nothing known about a
>	cvs: nothing known about b
>	cvs: failed; correct the above errors first

It looks like you did everything right, the problem may be that your module
name and the name of the directory are the same.  I haven't tried this sort
of setup here, preferring instead to use the alias mechanism.  Perhaps trying
something like:

	foo	ex a b

in your modules file will work a little bit better.  After this try:

	cvs co foo

and it should create a directory "foo" in your current directory.  If you 
don't have the "ex" entry in your modules file it will also work as expected.

The modules mechanism does have it's bugs, mostly having to do with nested
aliases, but they can be worked around without too much trouble.

BTW: I'm posting followups to comp.sources.bugs, since that seems to be a
better place for this discussion.

John M. Sully                      
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