RE: Frustrated with CVS simple commands

"Oliver Giesen" <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:53:18 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.gui.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You have to add the new folder first before you can add the file inside
it. Also see here:
http://cvsgui.sf.net/newfaq.htm#cvs-add_nodir 

Hope this helps.

Oliver

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of psumares
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [cvsgui] Frustrated with CVS simple commands

CVS makes no sense to me.

According to this documentation:
http://www.wincvs.org/howto/cvsdoc/index.html ... you can only impoty a
large set of source files as a module, then you can checkout files from
that to work on.

It explains no way to simply add a file to an existing module that you
have already checked out! This is ridiculous.

For example:

I already checked out an entire module I imported, called "Module".

Under "Module" I created a folder called "build" and inside a new file,
"build.xml".

If a simply try to add this file, I get

cvs -d :local:/Users/Administrator/Repos/CVS add build.xml (in directory
C:\EC Dev\Module\build) cvs add: in directory .:
cvs [add aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first

***** CVS exited normally with code 1 *****

Of course there's no version number, I haven't added it to the
repository yet, stupid CVS, that's what I'm trying to do now!

WHy won't it let me add this file to the repository, after which it will
give it a version, and then let me checkout that version? Why does CVS
makes this so unintuitive?

Arghh!

Thanks for letting me vent. Anyone have any answers for me.

Paul



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