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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:58:17 -0500, "Britt Tabor" <Britt_Tabor at Jabil.com> wrote: >I have just installed CVSNT 2.0.58 and I am following the installation >instructions from the download page. When I try to define my repository >I get a popup stating "C:/CVSRoot exists, but is not a valid CVS >repository" then asks if I still want to initialize. Why do I get that >error? It is NOT an error, it is a question that you are supposed to answer. The CVSNT server can be set up to serve out *existing* repositories. So when you navigate to a folder in the Control Panel applet and it finds that the folder you selected fulfils the requirements of a CVS repository root then it accepts it and registers it as a root. But if the folder is *not* fulfilling the requirements then it asks you to confirm that it can create the needed metadata to turn the folder into a real CVS root folder. CVS asks because it will write data to the disk if you accept. When it initializes the repository folder it creates a subfolder named CVSROOT and puts a bunch of administrative files there so it can be used as a CVS repository afterwards. /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)