[cvsnt] Re: strange problem involving authentication, no such repository etc.

[Subhadip Sarkar]

Thanks a lot tony, that was the mistake I was doing, it seems to be
working now when I make cvsroot the same as the name. I also removed
the repository inside repository thing. seems like I got confused by
the repository prefix idea...which it seems doesnt exist nemore in the
newer versions.

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 23:05:51 +0100, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote:
> Subhadip Sarkar wrote:
> > in the cvsnt applet, repositories tab, i have two entries:
> > name                                          root
> > /cvs/cvsrepo                              g:/cvs/cvsrepo
> > /cvs/cvsrepo/test                        g:/cvs/cvsrepo/test
> >
> > and then I do
> >
> >>set cvsroot=:sspi:cygnus:/test
> >>cvs ls
> >
> > and get
> > cvs [ls aborted]: /test: no such repository
> 
> That makes sense.
> 
> You need to use a cvsroot the same as the repository name.
> 
> Try
> 
> set cvsroot=:sspi:cygnus:/cvs/cvsrepo
> cvs ls
> 
> btw. You have an odd combination - you wouldn't normally put one
> repository inside another like that.  Is there a particular reason for
> doing that?
> 
> 
> 
> Tony
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