cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory

[Stephan Feder]

Hello,

exporting part of a repository with

cvs -d :fork:/repository export -Dnow module/submodule

fails (same with :ext:) with server message

cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory

but

cvs -d :local:/repository export -Dnow module/submodule

succeeds (client/server 1.11 on Linux).

I am using a separate LockDir and TopLevelAdmin=yes in config, and
access to certain top level subdirectories of the lock directory and the
repository is restricted by group rights, but other cvs commands do not
take offense.

Anyone any idea?

Regards
Stephan

[Stephan Feder]

Hello,

could someone please verify the following error?

Stephan
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[Larry Jones]

Stephan Feder writes:
>
> exporting part of a repository with
>
> cvs -d :fork:/repository export -Dnow module/submodule
>
> fails (same with :ext:) with server message
>
> cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory

[...]

> I am using a separate LockDir and TopLevelAdmin=yes in config, and

That's a bug that is already fixed in the current development version of
CVS. It only occurs in client/server mode with TopLevelAdmin=yes.

-Larry Jones

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-- Calvin

[Frederic Brehm]

>Stephan Feder wrote:
> >
>> exporting part of a repository with
>>
>> cvs -d :fork:/repository export -Dnow module/submodule
>>
>> fails (same with :ext:) with server message
>>
>> cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory
>>

>> but
>>
>> cvs -d :local:/repository export -Dnow module/submodule
>>
> > succeeds (client/server 1.11 on Linux).

Did you make sure you did

rm -rf module/submodule

just before each cvs export command?

Fred
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