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Argh! Say it isn't so! This is annoying. Tony, is this going to be fixed or is it too "unimportant"? On 5/1/06, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2006 12:04:12 -0700, "Bryce Schober" > <bryce.schober at gmail.com> wrote: > > >C:\cvs2>cvs checkout -d user/bks-test user/bks > >cvs server: cannot chdir to user: No such file or directory > >cvs server: ignoring module user/bks > > For some time now CVSNT does not accept that kind of construct. > I hit it on about 80 scripts we use to build installers for our > software. They work by exporting files to a directory structure from > which we then launch the install builder. > > Before the change we could do this: > set CVSROOT=<whatever> > cvs export -r HEAD -d MyApp/Somedir SomeModule/SomeSubmod > > and the result would be that the contents of SomeSubmod would be > exported into MyApp/Somedir (which would be created) > > Now, after the change, it does not work. And it does not matter if the > MyApp/Somedir folder actually exists when we execute the command! > Instead we needed to change *all* of our scripts to the following > format: > > set CVSROOT=<whatever> > mkdir MyApp > chdir Myapp > cvs export -r HEAD -d Somedir SomeModule/SomeSubmod > cd .. > > The export will create a single level of directory only from the -d > argument! > > Rather clumsy, but that was what Tony Hoyle's reply meant to us. > The previous syntax worked happily several years, but when we finally > upgraded to build 2151 and later to 2260 we had to modify *all* of our > build scripts because of this.... > > > >Any help here? Basically what I'm trying to do is checkout our entire > >project's tree, then checkout a copy of part of the tree in a > >differently named directory. Was this broken in the newer version or > >was it not supposed to work in the first place? > > It was working fine and in my mind it broke sometime in the 2.5 > version development. Don't know where though.... > I considered it a CVSNT bug, but it does not make me happier so I > edited the scripts. > > HTH > > /Bo > (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs > -- Bryce Schober