Re: directions for cvs?

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I checked them out yesterday but cvs update tn5250 won't work today.  And
I can't checkout again with all the files "in the way"

My mistake was using `cvs update tn5250` instead of `cvs update`

Now I've got it!

"Jason M. Felice" wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:31:31AM -0400, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> > I'm having a bit of trouble with cvs and thought someone might already
> > know the answer to this.  If I use `cvs checkout tn5250` I get all sorts
> > of errors telling me that I need to move files out of the way.  Of
> > course, I can clear the directory first and get all new files, but that
> > is extra work and unnecessary bandwidth.
> >
> > I read in man cvs that I can cd into my tn5250 directory and do `cvs
> > update tn5250` and only get changed files.  Sounds like exactly what
> > I wanted.  But I get an error:
> >
> > $ cvs update tn5250
> > cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or
> > directory
> > cvs [update aborted]: no repository
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> You have to do the 'cvs checkout tn5250' and check out the full module first,
> then 'cvs update' will work.  The check-out process not only downloads all
> the files in the modules, but it also indexes them with information that it
> uses to determine whether a file in CVS has been updated.  There *is* a
> method for converting a set of files into a repository, but I can't remember
> how (I think I saw the instructuions for this on the mozilla.org website).
>
> In any case, I wouldn't bother.  Just check out the tn5250 sources the first
> time.
>
> -Jay

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