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i believe i am using latest version, and i know the direcory is empty....
the module being checked out does have subdirs.... included the output of a
sample session:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
M:\>c:
C:\>mkdir xyz
C:\>cd xyz
C:\xyz>cvs -v
Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 1.11.1.3 (Build 72) (client/server)
Copyright (c) 1989-2001 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn,
Jeff Polk, and other authors
CVSNT version (Feb 13 2003) Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Tony Hoyle and others
see http://www.cvsnt.org
CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.
SSH connectivity provided by PuTTY:
PuTTY is copyright 1997-2001 Simon Tatham.
Portions copyright Robert de Bath, Joris van Rantwijk, Delian
Delchev, Andreas Schultz, Jeroen Massar, Wez Furlong, Nicolas Barry,
Justin Bradford, and CORE SDI S.A.
see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
C:\xyz>cvs -d :sspi:server2:/ewcode export -r HEAD codebase
cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory
C:\xyz>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 241A-0B3A
Directory of C:\xyz
02/20/2003 02:25 PM <DIR> .
02/20/2003 02:25 PM <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 1,201,442,816 bytes free
C:\xyz>
kz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com>
Newsgroups: support.cvsnt
To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] cvs export
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:20:41 -0500, "Keith D. Zimmerman"
> <kzimmerman at eshcom.com> wrote:
>
> >it should work (i think) to do 'cvs export -r HEAD....', but while i was
> >trying to test it, i had this experience
> >
> >empty folder, but when i did an export, it gave an error
> >
> >
> >"cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory"
> >
>
> This message comes up when you have a directory that contains
> subdirectories named CVS like you do in a sandbox.
> THere were some revisions of CVSNT that did this when exporting
> modules with subdirectories if I remember correctly. But this got
> fixed as soon as it was discovered. So if you use the latest CVSNT you
> should be fine.
> Remember that export will never overwrite an existing file and it will
> also not like it if a directory it wants to create already exists.
> So you should really export only to an empty folder.
>
>
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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