jms@unix386.Convergent.COM (John Sully) (05/15/91)
ulli@cadlab.de (Ulli Blancke) writes: >We have problems retrieving modules from cvs. To give you an exact picture >we discribe here what we have done, but most interesting should be the >end .... [...] >edit file modules to contain the line > ex ex a b [...] >trying to retrieve the information DOES NOT SUCCEED!!!!!! > $ cd ~/newdir > $ cvs co ex > cvs: nothing known about a > cvs: nothing known about b > cvs: failed; correct the above errors first It looks like you did everything right, the problem may be that your module name and the name of the directory are the same. I haven't tried this sort of setup here, preferring instead to use the alias mechanism. Perhaps trying something like: foo ex a b in your modules file will work a little bit better. After this try: cvs co foo and it should create a directory "foo" in your current directory. If you don't have the "ex" entry in your modules file it will also work as expected. The modules mechanism does have it's bugs, mostly having to do with nested aliases, but they can be worked around without too much trouble. BTW: I'm posting followups to comp.sources.bugs, since that seems to be a better place for this discussion. John M. Sully Unisys Corporation 2700 N. First St. San Jose, CA 95150 Phone : (408) 435-3129 E-Mail: jms@unix386.convergent.com
ulli@cadlab.de (Ulli Blancke) (05/17/91)
In article <7589@unix386.Convergent.COM> jms@unix386.Convergent.COM (John Sully) writes: Xref: pbinfo comp.unix.misc:1101 comp.sources.bugs:2460 Path: pbinfo!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!voder!pyramid!ctnews!unix386!jms From: jms@unix386.Convergent.COM (John Sully) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.sources.bugs Date: 14 May 91 17:43:25 GMT References: <ULLI.91May14125345@elladan.cadlab.de> Distribution: comp.unix.misc Organization: Unisys/Convergent, San Jose, CA Lines: 49 ulli@cadlab.de (Ulli Blancke) writes: >We have problems retrieving modules from cvs. To give you an exact picture >we discribe here what we have done, but most interesting should be the >end .... [...] >edit file modules to contain the line > ex ex a b [...] >trying to retrieve the information DOES NOT SUCCEED!!!!!! > $ cd ~/newdir > $ cvs co ex > cvs: nothing known about a > cvs: nothing known about b > cvs: failed; correct the above errors first It looks like you did everything right, the problem may be that your module name and the name of the directory are the same. I haven't tried this sort of setup here, preferring instead to use the alias mechanism. Perhaps trying something like: foo ex a b in your modules file will work a little bit better. After this try: cvs co foo and it should create a directory "foo" in your current directory. If you don't have the "ex" entry in your modules file it will also work as expected. The modules mechanism does have it's bugs, mostly having to do with nested aliases, but they can be worked around without too much trouble. BTW: I'm posting followups to comp.sources.bugs, since that seems to be a better place for this discussion. John M. Sully Unisys Corporation 2700 N. First St. San Jose, CA 95150 Phone : (408) 435-3129 E-Mail: jms@unix386.convergent.com Thank you for all answers. My mistake was that I used version 1.0 of cvs with rcs5.5. As I heard, I have to use cvs1.2. Actually I get this version from a server here in europa. I tested this version and it work. Thanks you -- ------------------- > Cadlab <----------------------- Ulrich Blancke Bahnhofstr. 32 ulli@cadlab.cadlab.de 4790 Paderborn Phone: +49 (5251)-284113 ( Germany )