[cvsnt] Re: Absolute module names not allowed

[Tony Hoyle]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:19:09 +1000, "Arthur Barrett"
<arthur.barrett at march-hare.com> wrote:


>Unfortunately this works OK with 10.8 but 2.0.36 gives this error:
>cvs [checkout aborted]: Absolute module names not allowed
>
>Does anyone know why this is?  Can the functionality be re-enabled?  Is
>there an alternative way?
>
It was a bug in the old CVS (cvshome.org CVS won't allow this any more
either, since 1.11.5ish).  It was actually a security bug, although a
hard to exploit one.

Take the / off the front and it'll work.

Tony