2008-06-11 CVS Question

What does this mean:

~/oddmuse $ cvs up
cvs update: warning: directory CVS specified in argument
cvs update: but CVS uses CVS for its own purposes; skipping CVS directory

Has somebody tried to check in the CVS directory itself?

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Isn’t it like trying to pull yourself up by pulling your own hair?

– RadomirDopieralski 2008-06-11 19:38 UTC

RadomirDopieralski

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I’ve seen this warning when a user commited files to one CVS repository that he previously had fetched from another one, and forgot not to add the CVS sub-folder during their commit.

– Jean Pierre 2008-06-12 08:34 UTC

Jean Pierre

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Thanks! I removed my current repository and checked out a new copy. The message is gone. So I must have tried what you said at some point in the past.

– Alex Schroeder 2008-06-12 09:15 UTC

Alex Schroeder