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FYI -- I've seen this behavior before and simply manually fixed the Entries file. I haven't 'officially' reported or researched "why", as I'm using older versions of CVS than what is current. It definitely happened to me with the 57j build... Regards, Jeff > > What I've seen in this situation is that the top level cvs > directory does not have a record of the existence of module4. > That makes the update skip it, since it's updating all the > things in the top level directory Entries file. I'm not sure > how best to resolve it, but I've gone back and manually > edited the entries files to add the directory before. > Ideally, an update/co of a specific submodule from a top > level directory would also modify that top level directory's > Entries file. I can see that that might be difficult in the > general case, though. > > Boyd > > -----Original Message----- > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Bo Berglund > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:42 PM > To: 'Glen Starrett'; cvsnt at cvsnt.org > Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Why does CVSNT not update some folders???? > > > Well, > I might have checked out the various submodules of the top > module at different times and there might have nbeen > different versions of CVSNT living both on the server and the client. > > But my main question is really this: > Where does CVSNT keep its checkout data except in the CVS > subdirectories? AFAICT the CVS folder in the parent directory > contains all needed info in the Entries and Entries.Extra > files to define my Module4 as a submodule. And the CVS folder > in Module4 contains valid info concerning the files and > folders contained therein. This is witnessed by the fact that > an update started from the Module4 folder runs without a > hitch. But an update one level up does not even go down into > Module4 and if I add the flag for creating the directories > then I get the "move away" error messages. So there *must* be > some extra trick being played here that makes Module4 > different from all the other modules even though the Entries > files in the parent CVS folder lists Module4 as a directory > just as the other modules. > > Really puzzling! > > BTW, if I move away the Module4 folder (rename to something > else) and do an update with create folder flag set then of > course Module4 is recreated. But that was really not my > issue, I want to understand what is going on. > > /Bo > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Glen Starrett [mailto:grstarrett at cox.net] > Sent: den 12 november 2003 00:03 > To: bo.berglund at telia.com; cvsnt at cvsnt.org > Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Why does CVSNT not update some folders???? > > > > When I do an update on Tools only 4 out of the 5 submodules get > > updated and if I check the "create missing directories..." checkbox > > the update issues a lot of error messages telling me to > move away the > > files cause they are in the way. > > Did you try: > > --moving the offending directory, > --removing it's CVS directories, > --cvs up -d Tools > > I'm guessing it's likely a case sensitivity problem or > missing Module4\CVS folder or similar. Just let CVS > straighten itself out. > > Awhile ago I had thought you could just check out a module > within another sandbox (or perhaps move one in later after it > was updated), but that didn't work as I had expected when I > tried it later. Did you create this using a non-standard method? > > Regards, > > Glen Starrett > > > > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook >