[cvsnt] Colons and Slashes. Forward ever Forward.

[Bo Berglund]

In 2.5.01 and forward backslashes are treated as escape characters.
For example if you are using CVSROOT scripts like loginfo you have to
make sure these are modified by changing \ to / in all paths etc.

/Bo

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Richard Kerry
Sent: den 20 maj 2005 11:32
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: [cvsnt] Colons and Slashes. Forward ever Forward.

I'm sure I'll not really be telling anyone anything they don't know, but following a load of time spent yesterday I'd like to remind people of the following :

The slash in the repository name in the CVSROOT string must be a forward slash.  (This is using sspi connection and may therefore be Windows specific)
This is behaviour which seems to have changed recently, an earlier version of cvsnt (not sure which - think there was a 58 in the number) didn't seem to mind, 2.5.01 does.

If you get a 'no such repository' error, check the direction of the slash.
cvs [log aborted]: \CcCvs: no such repository
/CcCvs works.

Also, the last colon, the one before the repository name, is optional.  This is probably a bug.
Ie 'CVSROOT = :sspi:MyServer/CcCvs' works, although 'CVSROOT = :sspi:MyServer:/CcCvs' is preferred.
I'd not recommend people use this as I'm sure it'll be fixed sometime soon.

PS apologies as usual for the amount of signature that gets added here.
Richard Kerry