[cvsnt] Strange behaviour of cvs export command

[Torsten Martinsen]

I *think* cvs export works by first doing a checkout and then deleting the CVS folders - that would explain it.

-Torsten

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bo Berglund" <Bo.Berglund at system3r.se>
To: "CVS-NT Mailing list (E-mail)" <cvsnt at cvsnt.org>; "CVS-Gui Mailing List (E-mail)" <cvsgui at egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:57 AM
Subject: [cvsnt] Strange behaviour of cvs export command


> I am trying to create a setup generation system where we would have a PC dedicated to
> build the setups on. I planned on using the cvs export command in a batch file to extract
> the needed files for the setup from CVS, then run the setup tool to produce the installation
> files and then finally erasing the files used.
> The batch file would be stored in CVS along with the module and the setup engineer would
> be directed to use the following sequence:
> 1) Get the setup batch file from CVS using another batch file located on the setup PC
> 2) Run the setup batch file to get the needed files (from several places in the CVS repository)
> 3) Run the setup tool to create the installation using these checked out files
> 4) Copy the result to the production area of the file server
> 5) Delete the working files as they are no longer needed
> 
> I planned to use the cvs export command to get the files out but I have a problem here, because
> the export command does not seem to work correctly... 
> (I am running CVSNT b57g on both client and server)
> 
> Here is the batch file I have created for my tests:
> 
> set CVSROOT=:sspi:welebobe:/test
> cvs export -r HEAD -d files CVSROOT/loginfo
> cvs export -r HEAD -d files AdamTest/AdamTest.exe
> cvs export -r HEAD -d files AdamTest/AdamTest.dof
> 
> Since I only have one module imported to my test server I have specified one file from CVSROOT
> and two from the module as a test.
> 
> What happens is expected for the first export command, the files dir is created and loginfo gets
> exported into it. Then the next file too arrives into the files folder, but now the strange thing happens
> that the files folder is converted into a sandbox by the creation of a CVS subfolder.
> And then the third export fails because you cannot export into a sandbox. Here is the output from
> running the batch file:
> 
> C:\3RProj\Test\Slask>set CVSROOT=:sspi:welebobe:/test
> 
> C:\3RProj\Test\Slask>cvs export -r HEAD -d files CVSROOT/loginfo
> U files/loginfo
> 
> C:\3RProj\Test\Slask>cvs export -r HEAD -d files AdamTest/AdamTest.exe
> U files/AdamTest.exe
> 
> C:\3RProj\Test\Slask>cvs export -r HEAD -d files AdamTest/AdamTest.dof
> ? files/loginfo
> cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into working directory
> 
> I had the impression that export actually should NOT create a sandbox, why does this happen here?