Re: recommend better error message when 'co' is missing

Michael Haggerty <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:58:31 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.cvs2svn.devel,gmane.mail.eyebrowse.user
Organization JPK Instruments, AG
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Risher wrote:
> Just encountered a frustrating problem running cvs2svn under cygwin:
> Because I had CVS installed but not RCS, cvs2svn was crashing when it
> couldn't locate the 'co' program.

Perhaps cvs2svn should pre-check whether co is installed.  My version of
RCS supports a "co -V" option (which prints the version number).  If
this option is present in all useful versions of co, then invoking co
this way once at the beginning of a run would be a good way to verify
that co is present and executable.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
JPK Instruments
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