Re: Mystery for a cvsgui expert

Sorry, no definite ideas so far, just a couple of things to note, 
without guarantee that this has anything at all to do with the issue at 
hand:

    * Your CVSROOT string looks incomplete. The :local:-protocol should
      require a fully-qualified path, including the drive name if you're
      on Windows. From what you've written, I would expect that it
      should be :local:c:\Users\Administrator\Repos\CVS
    * The warning about "ssh" not being a recognized command looks like
      for some reason it was attempted to use the :ext: protocol which
      in the pre-CVSNT days was how you connected to a CVS server via
      SSH. "ssh" is simply the implied default name of the external
      tunnelling client to use in that case and if you don't have such
      an executable on your PATH you would get that message. If you do
      want to use an external tunnelling client you can override the
      default by setting the CVS_RSH environment variable.
    * Using the -d commandline argument with the add command makes no
      sense: You only need that argument when you are running commands
      outside a sandbox, yet the add command can only be run when you
      are inside a sandbox directory (i.e. the directory needs to be
      added first before you can add the file inside it - see our
      previous discussion).
    * Why were you trying to add files using Admin|Command Line? There
      are toolbar buttons for the Add command. Also, did you know that
      you can simply enter cvs commands into the console pane?
    * As with the regular Add command you can only run the Recursive Add
      macro in a directory that has already been added. The error
      messages you're quoting do not quite fit that suspicion, though.
      Could it be that at some point during your trying out different
      things you set the CVSROOT environment variable? If so, what does
      it say? My guess is that it contains something that either
      explicitly specifies the :ext:-protocol or that it is missing a
      protocol prefix altogether so that CVS is forced to guess the
      protocol by heuristics and is for some reason incorrectly guessing
      at :ext:.
    * Not setting up an unknown file extension before running the
      Recurisve Add macro can have no effect here. The macro would
      simply default to "Default" and you can obviously still change
      that before hitting OK.
    * Even if you did add a file with the wrong file type it is
      technically impossible for that to have any effect on what happens
      when trying to add any other files. That's one of the few
      advantages of CVS' file-based repository...

Before you run the Recursive Add macro, what CVSROOT and repository path 
are displayed in the status bar?

Could you maybe post the complete output from the Recursive Add macro up 
to the first occurrence of the spurious "ssh" error message?

Cheers,

Oliver

Am 06.09.2009 22:48, schrieb psumares:
> My WinCVS app just got messed up for some strange reason; perhaps someone out there can help me solve this mystery and then fix the issue, based on the following clues.
>
> - It happened right after I used the "Recursive Add" macro. Some of the files were added but then a bunch of errors started streaming out, and many of the files were not added.
>
> - The error messages were primarily this one, which others have experienced when using a ":pserver" host type (NOTE that I am only using a local CVS ROOT):
>
> "[ERROR] cvs add: warning: unrecognized response `'ssh' is not recognized as an internal or external command,' from cvs server
> cvs add: warning: unrecognized response `operable program or batch file.' from cvs server
> cvs [add aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)"
>
> - I realized that I had not yet configured one of the file types I was trying add, using the "Recursive Add Options" utility. However, setting this type among the appropriate "Default Unicode Extensions" did not resolve the issue upon a reattempt.
>
> - During the recursive add attempt I selected to ignore certain file extensions, like ".log".
>
> - During the recursive add attempt I also selected to "autocommit", adding a commit message.
>
> - A subsequent commit of the files that *were* added succeeded.
>
> - Unfortunately, all attempts to add recursively to the repository now fail with the "ssh" error pasted above.
>
> - An attempt to add a single file with the Admin>  Command Line utility failed with the following (very strange) error message:
>
> "cvs -d :local:/Users/Administrator/Repos/CVS add CA_ECBrain_Thought_Edit.cls (in directory C:\EC Dev\Module\framework\base\actions)
> cvs [add aborted]: Directory /Users/Administrator/Repos/CVS/pw/frame/base/actions does not exist on the server"
>
> What is strange here is that there I never specified any such path that had "pw/frame/base/actions" in it. It should be as described in the first part of the output, "framework/base/actions". Where did it get this "pw/frame/base" thing from?
>
> - The only coincidence about the point above is that *one* of the many files that did *not* get added correctly was called "PW_Frame.cls". And ".cls" was one of the extension types that I had failed to tell WinCVS was a "Default Unicode Extension" type. I'm not sure if that's related at all, but note the similar pattern between this file name and that strange path that seems to have come out of no where, and is not recognized.
>
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about what may be going on here, based on the above clues? WinCVS seemed to be in a bad state now, and if I can't add files, I will have to abandon any how of using this system.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Paul Sumares
>    



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