[cvsnt] cvs export/checkout with tag

[Slothouber F (Frans) (InTraffic)]

Hoi Bo,

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:46:18 +0100, "Slothouber F (Frans) (InTraffic)"
> <Frans.Slothouber at InTraffic.nl> wrote:
> ... snip ...
> >In an empty directory I run:
> > 
> >  C:\pws\Sandbox3>cvs export -r Mod2Tag mod1
> >
> >and get:
> >
> >  cvsnt export: Updating mod1
> >  cvsnt export: Updating mod1/Test
> >
> >The directory stays empty though.  So no files were checked out,
> >but also not error message was given about the tag.
> 
> There are no files in your output..
> So the export was correct. It should not excract any files that do not
> carry the tag you asked for and this is exactly what happens. No error
> here.
> And why should CVSNY give you an error if the export doesn't find a
> particular tag? It's purpose is to give you the files that carry that
> tag and it finds none so it gives you none. Correct behaviour.
> Directories are not versioned or tagged so they get created.

I can live with that.

It is not very consistent though. 
cvsnt does give an error message if you export a module with a
non-existent tag.
I request a module with a tag that does not exists in that particular
module, so I expect 
a similar error message. 
 
Example:
    cvs export -r FooBar a_module
    cvsnt [export aborted]: no such tag FooBar



> >
> >With a:
> >
> >  C:\pws\Sandbox3>cvs -t checkout -r Mod2Tag mod1
> >
> >I get:
> >
> ... snip ...
> 
> >  cvs checkout: in directory .:
> >  cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or
> >directory
> >  11:30:20:   -> unlink_file_dir(mod1)
> >
> >Which gives an error message, but not the one I expected :)
> >
> 
> This is probably caused by the fact that nothing was checked out
> (nothing matched) and CVSNT did not have a check for this while
> creating the admin files in xx/CVS.
> But is it really an *error* message???

It looks like an error message.  

The problem is that this is a confusing message.
If I, by mistake mispell a tag, I end up with cvs telling me that
it can not open a file for reading.  This leaves me with the impression
that
there is something wrong with my directory structure or file protection
settings.

This first happened under VMS, which has quite elaborate file protection
scheme, 
so I spend quite some time trying to figure out what was wrong. But
nothing was
wrong, it was just a misspelled tag. 


Have fun,
Frans.




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