[cvsnt] Trouble with ampersand modules

[Bryce Schober]

OK, guys...  Is nobody listening, or is it just that nobody cares?

Bryce Schober wrote:

> I'm a newbie cvs admin (yeah, I know...  everyone run in horror!) 
> having troubles getting any ampersand module to work.  We'd like to 
> share common lib files across project directories, and from my 
> searching around, I figured ampersand modules were the best way to do 
> it.  So I set up a test respository that looks like the one we want to 
> use with this kind of structure:
>
> software/
> ---product-name/
> ------common/
> ------proc_1/
> ------proc_2/
>
> So what I _really_ want is to have selected files from "common" check 
> out in the root of proc_1 & proc_2, but I gather from the docs that 
> the best I can get is to have them in a subdir of proc_1 & proc_2, so 
> I'll settle for that.  So I made my modules file as follows:
>
> common software/product-name/common
> proc_1 software/product-name/proc_1 $common
>
> Using this setup, the "common" module checks out as expected, but 
> checkout of the proc_1 module fails, giving me this error (using both 
> wincvs and cvs):
>
> cvs server: warning: new-born proc_1/$common has disappeared
>
> I'm using cvsnt 2.0.2.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryce Schober
>
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