From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 08:40:09 +0000

Re: CVS problems here too

Andrew Apted wrote:
> 
> Emmanuel writes:
> 
> >  Andrew Apted wrote:
> >
> >  > It looks like the repository is kinda screwed.  What's happening ?
> >  > Could I be doing something stupid ?
> >
> >  This isn't a problem in your repository, but one local to your system.
> >  Apparently you are missing a 'CVS' directory where it says, so it can't
> >  figure out the differences and merge them.
> 
> Here's what happened: I created a directory 'lib/libggi/display/L_common'
> a while back, to put linux common code in, and cvs added it.  There was
> nothing in it initially.  Then when I did 'cvs update -d', cvs must have
> deleted it and its 'CVS' directory.  Now I've created it again and put
> files in it, and the missing 'CVS' directory is what seems to cause the
> problem.  Ugh.
> 
> I don't see how this can be fixed, so what I'll do is just use another
> directory name (Linux_common -- nicer anyway).  Fun fun fun :-).

Making new directories has caused me a lot of trouble too.
I've found that if you first make the directory and cvs add it
before you put any files in it it seems to work best.

//Marcus
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