[cvsnt] Re: HELP: CVS directory without administration files present

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:21:58 -0500, Kunal Munjal <kunal at acrx.com>
wrote:

>
>  Hi All,
>
>  I am new to CVS and would greatly appreciate it if some kind soul could 
>help me with this installation problem. I have set up the CSVNT to work in 
>conjunction with Tortoise CSV on windows. However when I try to make a new 
>module, it gives me the following error. Just for the background, I have 
>installed the CSVNT and tortoise CSV on the server, set the CSVROOT and 
>CSVTEMP environmental variables which are both simply C:\CSVREPO and 
>C:\CSVTEMP.
>
>
>In C:\Documents and Settings\kunalmunjal\Desktop\desktop: "C:\Program 
>Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" "checkout" "-d" "testing" "testing"
>CVSROOT=:sserver:kunalmunjal at OUTCOMES2:2401/CVSREPO
>
>cvs checkout: cwd=C:\Documents and Settings\kunalmunjal\Desktop\desktop 
>,current=C:\Documents and Settings\kunalmunjal\Desktop\desktop
>cvs checkout: in directory .:
>cvs [checkout aborted]: CVS directory without administration files 
>present.  Cannot continue until this directory is deleted or renamed.
>
>Error, CVS operation failed
>
>Error, one of the CVS operations failed
>
>
>Someone please tell me what the last line of error is supposed to mean. 
>Tanks in advance.
>
>Regards:
>
>  Kunal 

Are you really trying to check out stuff to your *desktop*?????
Sounds crazy to me, why are you doing that?



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)