Re: Mysterious error

[Peter Wolfe]

Donald Sharp wrote:
> 
> These two files have been committed to the repository by someone
> else.  You are attempting to do a cvs update.  cvs sees that
> these two files exist, yet are not maintained by your sandbox, and it needs
> to add them.  This is a safety feature.  To prevent accidental
> overwrite.  Move these two files out of the way and redo your update.
> 

This probably happens often enough that it should be added into the manual
in the "Troubleshooting" section. 

> doanld
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:23:50AM -0500, Tony Ennis wrote:
> >
> > Hello. I am getting the following error message when updating. I have no
> > idea what the problem is.
> >
> > cvs server: Updating .
> > cvs checkout: move away grapevine/docs/graphics/help-terms.gif; it is in
> > the way
> > cvs checkout: move away grapevine/docs/graphics/search.gif; it is in the
> > way
> >
> > Clearly, I don't understand why I have to move these two files and none
> > of the other 200 files.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tony
> >
> 
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