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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:53:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup/cvs oddities?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006251352510.2158-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006251257000.42497-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Can anyone shed light on why a CVSUP'd dirtree I have now always
> > falls down with the following error?... Because it's CVSUP'd, the
> > local repository is just /home/ncvs (NFS mounted). I cannot figure out why it
> > all of a sudden wants to run off the Freefall .....
> 
> Check CVS/Root in that directory. If you do a remote cvs operation it
> sometimes likes to update the repository to point to freefall, which then
> screws up cvs update unless you specify "-d /home/ncvs". I have aliases
> lcvs and rcvs which explicitly state the -d to use (I think this advice
> came from the committer's guide)

Oops. Somehow I had a couple of bad CVS/Root files creep in.

The odd thing is that they weren't anywhere &near& where things died.
I had to use find/grep to hunt 'em down. 

Thanks....



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