[cvsnt] Re: cvs checkout: cannot set time on ... :Permission denied

Matt Epstein matt at fortissoftware.com
Fri Jan 7 16:12:41 GMT 2005


I am having the same problem, but not with PushOk SCC provider instead
TortoiseCVS -- anybody know what this is?

TIA,
Matt

"bins" <bins-- at ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.2976.1103231565.21094.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
>
> Please forgive me if this information can be found elsewhere - I googled
but
> couldn't find anything relevant to my configuration.
>
> After creating a new module (about 3-4000 files, not all of them very
big),
> and with a cvs watch on the whole module so that that they co read-only
and
> all of the files add with -kb, whenever I checkout the files locally I get
> the response
>
> cvs checkout: cannot set time on [whatever.txt] : Permission denied
>
> The cvs server is 2.051a and client 2.051d
>
> Incidentally the reason we are not on a later version is that we use the
> PushOK devstudio integration which currently only supports this version of
> cvsnt - I think soon they'll be on 2.058 though...
>
> Obviously one solution is to not co read-only. Our reason for this is that
> we want to enforce exclusive locks on these files - many of them really
are
> unmergeable and having then read-only makes it quick for our tools to tell
> if a file is edited or not - waiting to do parse the results of a cvs edit
> on all the files would take too long (unless there is a quicker way ?)
>
> We don't get this problem with source code by the way ...
>
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>





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