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RE: CVS with remote access ?
- To: David dot Billinghurst at riotinto dot com dot au, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: CVS with remote access ?
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:42:44 PDT
- Cc: bischoff at ise dot com
>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:42:18 +1000
>From: "Billinghurst, David" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com.au>
>Subject: RE: CVS with remote access ?
>To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
>Cc: "'bischoff@ise.com'" <bischoff@ise.com>
>
>I recently put binaries for rcs-5.7 and cvs-1.9 on
>http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/8328
>If I ever start an FAQ it should include
>
>Problem:
>
>CVS gives errors like:
> CVS.EXE checkout: Your CVSROOT is set for a remote access method
> CVS.EXE checkout: but your CVS executable doesn't support it
> CVS.EXE checkout: (c:\cvsroot\reductn)
> CVS.EXE [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT
>
>Cause:
>
>The environment variable CVSROOT has a colon ":" in it
>For example CVSROOT=c:\cvsroot\reductn
>
>Solution
>
>Remove the colon. For example CVSROOT=\cvsroot\reductn
>
Make those foward slashes if you set them from BASH, like this:
CVSROOT=/cvsroot/reductn. Otherwise you will end up with
CVSROOT=cvsrootreductn.
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