Re: CVS Back online, web address.

On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:05:58PM -0400, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> Maybe I just don't know what I'm doing (probably!) but I get the following 
>error
> when trying to checkout from CVS:  protocol error: directory
> '/o/cvs/mmadore/tn5250' not within root '/tn5250'

There's two reasons it could be looking for files under the old CVS root, the
first is if the CVSROOT environment variable isn't set to the new root (which
is apparently not the case in your situation), and the seconds is if you are
trying to update/commit/diff/whatver files which were checked out of the old
root.

> 
> This is after a long listing of files with a question mark before each one.  
>Am I
> doing it wrong?  Thanks.
> 
You'll have to check the files out from scratch.  If you have made any changes
to your working directory, you'll have to manually diff and patch your changes
to the new directory.  If that is the case, be sure you don't touch the files
in the CVS/ directories on your copy .. that confuses CVS very much.

If that's not the problem, there is some file that holds your passwords (from
'cvs login') and CVS roots.  you might want to delete that and re-login to any
CVS servers you have access to.

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
Isn't it about time I do one of those sig thingies?

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