Re: new-born has disappeared warning

Andrew Michael Levin <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:02:19 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <CA+6A3sGvwfA=4UuWKd4cXNYitk_UsbLStLK2yc31vWq3bt-V1A@mail.gmail.com>
Never mind -- the problem was that the thing I was trying to check out
was misspelled.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Andrew Michael Levin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having the following problem. I try to do this:
>
> [anlevin@dtmit08 src]$ rm -r CondFormats
> [anlevin@dtmit08 src]$ cvs co -d CondFormats/EGammaObjects
> CMSSW/CondFormats/EGammaObjects
>
> and I get this warning:
>
> cvs checkout: warning: new-born
> `CondFormats/EGammaObjects/CondFormats/EGammaObjects' has disappeared
>
> and a CondFormats/EGammaObjects/CondFormats directory is created. I
> don't understand why cvs creates a CondFormats/EGammaObjects directory
> and then creates a directory in that called CondFormats. (There is no
> CondFormats directory in EGammaObjects.) I have used this checkout
> structure before and it has worked. So, I am really confused.
>
> Does anyone understand this and know how to fix it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew