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> Getting started - failing miserably
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> Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:20:36 GMT
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> I am trying to use CVS for the first time and not having much luck.
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> I am ruinning YellowDog Linux on PPC.  Installed CVS version is 1.11.17 as 
> reported by cvs -version.
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> I have created a directory /home/uj672c/cvs_dir for the archive.
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> My linux shell is cshell.
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> I added setenv CVSROOT /home/uj672c/cvs_dir to my .cshrc file.
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> I issued the command "cvs init" and received
> 208 > cvs init
> cvs [init aborted]: cannot make directory /project/labtest.common/cm/cvs: No 
> such file or directory
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> ls cvs_dir showed me an empty dir.  I would have expected that the CVSROOT 
> environment variable would have pointer to the cvs_dir.
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> so I issued
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> cvs -d $CVSROOT init
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> Which was accepted without error and a ls of vcs_dir showed a directory 
> named CVSROOT with lots of contents.  So obviously the cvs init command 
> worked.
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> So the first question: Why didn't "cvs init" command work?
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> So now to the more interesting question.  I ran through the standard 
> exercize of
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> mkdir tc
> mkdir tc/main
> mkdir tc/testing
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> cd tc
> cvs import -m "Imported sources" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
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> For which I received the following:
> 145 > cvs import -m "Imported" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
> cvs [import aborted]: /project/labtest.common/cm/cvs/CVSROOT: No such file 
> or directory
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> So I tried
> cvs -d $CVSROOT import -m "Imported sources" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
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> for which I received:
> 146 > cvs -d $CVSROOT import -m "Imported" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
> cvs [import aborted]: /home/uj672c/cvs_dir/CVSROOT/CVSROOT: No such file or 
> directory
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> so tell me what am I doing wrong?
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> Thanks.
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