Re: context menu items missing

Torsten Martinsen <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:34:59 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.tortoisecvs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Btw: Another message of mine is still in the queue because of an attachment and has to be approved before delivery.
>
> I guess I figured out the problem. The checkout option doesn't appear in "some" directorys. I tried it in c:\temp and it showed up. So what's the point? 
>
> I created a folder named cvs. This one was planned to be the root of a cvs repository. Inside this cvs dir I didn't see the checkout option as mentioned before. But look here: if I rename the folder to anything but cvs it works! So, as a workaround, I renamed the folder to cvs_.
>
> It seems that you cannot select a dir named cvs to be the root of a cvs repository. Is that true? Is this expected behavior?
Yes - this is a design constraint of CVS.

BTW, what you are referring to is a 'sandbox' (working directory), not a 
'repository' (which is located only on the server).

-Torsten

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