[cvsnt] Re: Problem checking out sub-module into module's tree

[Bryce Schober]

Argh! Say it isn't so! This is annoying. Tony, is this going to be
fixed or is it too "unimportant"?

On 5/1/06, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2006 12:04:12 -0700, "Bryce Schober"
> <bryce.schober at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >C:\cvs2>cvs checkout -d user/bks-test user/bks
> >cvs server: cannot chdir to user: No such file or directory
> >cvs server: ignoring module user/bks
>
> For some time now CVSNT does not accept that kind of construct.
> I hit it on about 80 scripts we use to build installers for our
> software. They work by exporting files to a directory structure from
> which we then launch the install builder.
>
> Before the change we could do this:
> set CVSROOT=<whatever>
> cvs export -r HEAD -d MyApp/Somedir SomeModule/SomeSubmod
>
> and the result would be that the contents of SomeSubmod would be
> exported into MyApp/Somedir (which would be created)
>
> Now, after the change, it does not work. And it does not matter if the
> MyApp/Somedir folder actually exists when we execute the command!
> Instead we needed to change *all* of our scripts to the following
> format:
>
> set CVSROOT=<whatever>
> mkdir MyApp
> chdir Myapp
> cvs export -r HEAD -d Somedir SomeModule/SomeSubmod
> cd ..
>
> The export will create a single level of directory only from the -d
> argument!
>
> Rather clumsy, but that was what Tony Hoyle's reply meant to us.
> The previous syntax worked happily several years, but when we finally
> upgraded to build 2151 and later to 2260 we had to modify *all* of our
> build scripts because of this....
>
>
> >Any help here? Basically what I'm trying to do is checkout our entire
> >project's tree, then checkout a copy of part of the tree in a
> >differently named directory. Was this broken in the newer version or
> >was it not supposed to work in the first place?
>
> It was working fine and in my mind it broke sometime in the 2.5
> version development. Don't know where though....
> I considered it a CVSNT bug, but it does not make me happier so I
> edited the scripts.
>
> HTH
>
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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Bryce Schober