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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:09:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
Subject:   Re: CVS: What am I doing wrong?
Message-ID:  <199604061409.QAA01190@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604061027.MAA11211@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 6, 96 12:27:32 pm

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As Greg Lehey wrote:

> I started in an empty directory called /src/2.2-CURRENT.  With the
> command 
> 
>   cvs -r co src
> 
> I expect to get a complete, read-only source tree attached to the
> current directory.  Instead, I get:
> 
> + cvs checkout: Updating src
> + U src/COPYRIGHT

cvs co uses the module name as its subdir by default.  Override this
with

   cvs -r co -d . src

if you don't like it.

> + cvs checkout: Updating src/sys/gnu/i386/isa
> + cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> + cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open CVS/Root: No such file or directory
> 

I've never seen this though.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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