cygwin's cvs can only host repositories on binary (unix) mounted drives. It can't host them on text (dos) mounted drives. What is the output of 'mount' ?
--Chuck Andrew Markebo wrote: > Hmm weird, no idea, continue digging on the mailinglist, BTW What kind > of mounts do you have, if you type mount what does it say, do you have > more than one cvs.exe around?? > > /Andy > > / Michael Labhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Thanks, again, for the reply. > | > | Tried /cygdrive/c/... also without success. Init'ed repository with > | > | cvs -d /usr/local/cvs-repository init > | > | Interesting thing is that if I init another repository it works for that > | session. When I shutdown the computer and come back to it at the next > | session the new repository is not recognized. Here is output from all of my > | attempts. Very confused!! Sorry to take up so much of your time but seems > | like CVS would be important to have working under CygWin. REALLY LOVE CygWin > | in every other way. This is the only application I have had trouble with in > | CygWin to any major extent. CygWin is a tremendously useful piece of > | software and I am extremely delighted to have it. > | > | -- Michael > | > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~ > | $ cd projects/dde > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde > | $ cvs -d /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository update > | cvs update: Updating . > | cvs update: cannot open directory > | /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository/dd > | : No such file or directory > | cvs update: skipping directory > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde > | $ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository > | CVSROOT cvslocks dde > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde > | $ ls c:/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository > | CVSROOT cvslocks dde > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde > | $ cvs -d c:/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository update > | c: Unknown Host > | cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde > | $ cvs -d /usr/local/cvs-repository update > | cvs update: Updating . > | : No such file or directoryectory /usr/local/cvs-repository/dde > | cvs update: skipping directory > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde > | $ cvs update > | cvs update: in directory .: > | cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository > | /us > | r/local/cvs-repository > | cvs update: in directory .: > | cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository > | /us > | r/local/cvs-repository > | cvs update: in directory .: > | cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository > | /us > | r/local/cvs-repository > | cvs update: Updating . > | cvs update: in directory .: > | cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository > | /us > | r/local/cvs-repository > | : No such file or directoryectory /usr/local/cvs-repository/dde > | cvs update: skipping directory > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde > | $ ls /usr/local/cvs-repository > | CVSROOT cvslocks dde > | > | The Owner@HOME-KE6PIJUPJP ~/projects/dde > | $ > | > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
