[cvsnt] Why does CVSNT not update some folders????

[Jeff Urlwin]

FYI -- I've seen this behavior before and simply manually fixed the Entries
file.  I haven't 'officially' reported or researched "why", as I'm using
older versions of CVS than what is current.  It definitely happened to me
with the 57j build...

Regards,

Jeff

> 
> What I've seen in this situation is that the top level cvs 
> directory does not have a record of the existence of module4. 
>  That makes the update skip it, since it's updating all the 
> things in the top level directory Entries file.  I'm not sure 
> how best to resolve it, but I've gone back and manually 
> edited the entries files to add the directory before.  
> Ideally, an update/co of a specific submodule from a top 
> level directory would also modify that top level directory's 
> Entries file.  I can see that that might be difficult in the 
> general case, though.
> 
> 	Boyd
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org 
> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Bo Berglund
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:42 PM
> To: 'Glen Starrett'; cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Why does CVSNT not update some folders????
> 
> 
> Well,
> I might have checked out the various submodules of the top 
> module at different times and there might have nbeen 
> different versions of CVSNT living both on the server and the client.
> 
> But my main question is really this:
> Where does CVSNT keep its checkout data except in the CVS 
> subdirectories? AFAICT the CVS folder in the parent directory 
> contains all needed info in the Entries and Entries.Extra 
> files to define my Module4 as a submodule. And the CVS folder 
> in Module4 contains valid info concerning the files and 
> folders contained therein. This is witnessed by the fact that 
> an update started from the Module4 folder runs without a 
> hitch. But an update one level up does not even go down into 
> Module4 and if I add the flag for creating the directories 
> then I get the "move away" error messages. So there *must* be 
> some extra trick being played here that makes Module4 
> different from all the other modules even though the Entries 
> files in the parent CVS folder lists Module4 as a directory 
> just as the other modules.
> 
> Really puzzling!
> 
> BTW, if I move away the Module4 folder (rename to something 
> else) and do an update with create folder flag set then of 
> course Module4 is recreated. But that was really not my 
> issue, I want to understand what is going on.
> 
> /Bo
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Starrett [mailto:grstarrett at cox.net]
> Sent: den 12 november 2003 00:03
> To: bo.berglund at telia.com; cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Why does CVSNT not update some folders????
> 
> 
> > When I do an update on Tools only 4 out of the 5 submodules get
> > updated and if I check the "create missing directories..." checkbox 
> > the update issues a lot of error messages telling me to 
> move away the 
> > files cause they are in the way.
> 
> Did you try:
> 
> --moving the offending directory,
> --removing it's CVS directories,
> --cvs up -d Tools
> 
> I'm guessing it's likely a case sensitivity problem or 
> missing Module4\CVS folder or similar.  Just let CVS 
> straighten itself out.
> 
> Awhile ago I had thought you could just check out a module 
> within another sandbox (or perhaps move one in later after it 
> was updated), but that didn't work as I had expected when I 
> tried it later.  Did you create this using a non-standard method?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Glen Starrett
> 
> 
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