[cvsnt] Re: "Can only specify directories for this command"

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Jan 3 03:06:04 GMT 2003


Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.


Shepherd wrote:

> When I tried to set branch access permission by
>     "cvs chacl -r sal-dev li:rwc sal"
> it showed to me this message:
>     "cvs [chacl aborted]: Can only specify directories for this command".
> I used this command in my working diretory where the module "sal" is
> checked out.

If you in 'sal' then just use '.'.

If 'sal' isn't a real directory on the server then use the real directory
name.
 
> Another problem: I couldn't check out a branch by command.
>     D:\eclipse\workspace>cvs checkout -r sal-dev sal
>     cvs [server aborted]: no such tag sal-dev
> I tagged in eclipse. I found that in the file "Entries" there was a string
> "/TSAL-Dev",did it mean the tag was "SAL-Dev"?
>
Looks like it.

Tony




More information about the cvsnt mailing list
Download the latest CVSNT, TortosieCVS, WinCVS etc. for Windows 8 etc.
@CVSNT on Twitter   CVSNT on Facebook