Re: [lug-nuts] cvs question

From: James Nessen (nessenj@jimsoffice.org)
Date: Sat Nov 20 1999 - 22:32:27 PST

You need to create a repository first, all the init does, is create the
cvsroot without any repositories.

try first doing:

cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot import helloworld.pl

then you should be able to commit any new changes.

Jim 

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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Brian Lavender wrote:

> I installed cvs and I successfully executed the command
> 
> $ cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init
> 
> and it created the directory
> /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT
> 
> so I went to 
> /home/brian/src/perl/usr
> 
> and created a file
> helloworld.pl
> 
> I tried to commit it to cvs with the command below, but you
> can see the error I got.
> 
> brian@debian:~/src/perl/usr> cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot/ commit helloworld.pl
> cvs commit: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> cvs commit: nothing known about `helloworld.pl'
> cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
> 
> What corrections do I need to make?
> 
> brian
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> Brian Lavender
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