[cvsnt] How to get the new admin files in build 2214 into existing CVSROOT?

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:30:15 +0000, Mike Wake
<mike.wake at thalesgroup.com> wrote:

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>Bo Berglund wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:30:51 +0000, Mike Wake
>> <mike.wake at thalesgroup.com> wrote:
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>>> Bo,
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>>> I have in the past run cvs init on an existing repository.  
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>> How did you do that?
>> I tried to do this on an existing repo but got this message back:
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>> cvs [init aborted]: Repository at c:/data/cvsrepo/cmp already exists.
>> 
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>I am STILL using 2.0.58d.  I am able to do the following on the server.
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>cvs -d :local:/cvs_repos/CVSREPOS/MuckAround init
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>where /cvs_repos/CVSREPOS/MuckAround is an existing repository.
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>I guess it has been disallowed in the newer versions.
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Appaers so:

C:\DATA>cvs -d :local:c:/data/cvsrepo/cmp init
cvs [init aborted]: Repository at c:/data/cvsrepo/cmp already exists.

C:\DATA>cvs -d :local:/data/cvsrepo/cmp init
cvs [init aborted]: Repository at /data/cvsrepo/cmp already exists.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)