Re: Can't check out a freshly imported module

--- In [email protected], "avatarflier" <avatarflier@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, I am following this guide: 
> 
>
http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:cTCHFrVJoTwJ:easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/cvsgui/WinCvs-1.3.pdf+wincvs-1.3.pdf&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
> 
> and on page 29 under "checking out a module - creating a working
> directory" you check out the empty module you imported earlier. 
> Instead of checking it out, the console displays:
> 
> cvs checkout: Updating module1
> cvs checkout: in directory .:
> cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or
> directory
> 
> 
> I have all permissions to module1, which is in my cvsroot path. 
> However, I was able to checkout the CVSROOT folder that was created
> with install.  I created a text file inside module1 so it would not be
> empty but I still cannot check it out.  How do I fix this?  Many
> thanks in advance.
>

CVS/Entries lists files and directories in the parent folder of the
hidden CVS folder.  The guide just said to create an empty folder so
obviously CVS/Entries isn't going to be there.  

This looks like a documentation error, so how do I checkout a working
directory that doesn't exist in the unix repository?  



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