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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:48:30 +0000 (UTC), "Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net> wrote: > >I cannot confirm that - although I can confirm that it probably does >not work as intended... >Did you actually enable the plugin via the CVSNT control panel? Which plugin would that be? There is nothing there that remotely looks like "shadow"... But now I tried "Automatic checkout extension" and got similar results as you did. > >I put the following in CVSROOT/shadow : > >test HEAD d:/Temp/autocheckout/ > > >Committing a change to test/Blah.txt resulted in the following (with >verbose output enabled in the plugin options): > >cvs -z9 -q commit -m change -- Blah.txt >Checking in Blah.txt; >/testroot2151/test/Blah.txt,v <-- Blah.txt >new revision: 1.4; previous revision: 1.3 >done >cvs checkout: Updating d:/Temp/autocheckout > >U d:/Temp/autocheckout/Blah.txt > >Malformed line 9 in CVSROOT/shadow - Need Module Tag Directoryok This is what I got: Checking in ThirdFile.txt; /KORVkiosk/ModuleXX/ThirdFile.txt,v <-- ThirdFile.txt new revision: 1.37; previous revision: 1.36 done CVSMailer processing CVSMailer processing consolidated messages Malformed line 9 in CVSROOT/shadow - Need Module Tag Directoryok My line #9 is actually an empty line preceding the checkout spec line. By removing that line (forcefully directly in the CVSROOT dir) and repeating the procedure there were no longer any error messages. >cvs [commit aborted]: received interrupt signal > >As you can see I had to manually stop cvs as it was hanging after the >"Malformed..." line. After fixing shadow so that there were no empty lines and so getting rid of the error, I tested another track by erasing the full contents of the target directory as specified by shadow, including the dir itself. Then I repeated the experiment and I got a full recreated checked out module from CVS! :-) SUMMARY 1. The CVSROOT/shadow file does not allow empty lines <= bug??? 2. Each line must be either commented out by # or contain a valid expression. 3. In order for the shadow to work the plugin "Automatic checkout extension" must be enabled in the CVSNT control panel 4. CVSNT will create the shadow sandbox if it does not already exist 5. Missing directories will be created also in an existing shadow where some subdirectories have been deleted including their notes in the CVS/Entries files I guess that completes the investigation. /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)