[development] Contributions cvs checkout broken on OS X 10.3

Gerhard Killesreiter gerhard at killesreiter.de
Wed Mar 8 06:56:02 UTC 2006


Rowan Kerr wrote:

> contributions/modules/betterupload has a lowercase 'cvs' directory in 
> it, as well as the standard uppercase 'CVS' directory.
>
> OS X hates this because it is only case-preserving, not case-sensitive 
> and sees the two directories as being the same. Consequently, it is 
> impossible to checkout the contributions repository at least with the 
> version of cvs that comes with the Mac OS 10.3 development tools. (CVS 
> 1.10).
>
> The Error...
> cvs checkout: in directory contributions/modules/betterupload/cvs:
> cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or 
> directory
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write <CVS/Template file>: No such file 
> or directory
>
> Can anyone fix this?
> Or do I just have to update to a newer OS...


Yeah, get a real computer. :p

Anyway, I fixed it.

Cheers,
    Gerhard


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