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Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by Ying

Ying — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:38:28 +0000

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH! YOU SAVED MY LIFE!

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by Chad

Chad — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:52:05 +0000

That was my problem too.

I also find this issue occurs when using TortoiseCVS on Windows and checking out files to a samba share on a linux host. If you then ssh to the host and try CVS commands, you’ll get errors because all the files in /CVS are in dos mode, thanks to TortoiseCVS. I haven’t found an option in to make TortoiseCVS use UNIX line endings.

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by vineeth starly

vineeth starly — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:19:01 +0000

Works like a charm, thanks!

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by MeDon

MeDon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:37:38 +0000

Hi,
thanks for the post. I like Horace’s solution. However, it has some problems with filenames with spaces. I have changed it into:

find . -type f -name Root -or -name Entries -or -name Repository -print0 | xargs -0 dos2unix

And now it works fine for me. maybe more safe is to use

find . -type f -path ‘*/CVS/*’ -print0 | xargs -0 dos2unix

to be sure to process files only in CVS subdirectories.

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by Jonathon

Jonathon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:40:05 +0000

YOU ARE THE MASTER CHIEF!!! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!! Like edog said:

“I owe you my first born child… And the few remaining hairs that I havent just pulled out.”

So true!!

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by Brian

Brian — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:22:41 +0000

THANKS! One point to mention is, I had to type those commands into the Cygwin bash prompt, not the Windows command prompt (that gave me errors). But once I figured that out, it worked like a charm!

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by Reihnold

Reihnold — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:11:13 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. It saved me some time recently.

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by Horace

Horace — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:52:12 +0000

Thanks for this.

In a similar vein, this will also work:

find . -name Root -or -name Entries -or -name Repository | xargs dos2unix

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by Jason Cipriani

Jason Cipriani — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:26:55 +0000

Thanks a lot for posting this; and it was the top Google result for “CVSROOTccess” too. Did the trick just fine. PS: This problem is not just Cygwin; I had it using TortoiseCVS + MinGW command line CVS.

Comment on /CVSROOTccess on cvs execution by Ted Anderson

Ted Anderson — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:48:41 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Google put your blog entry at the top of the list and it was exactly what I was looking for. I’m feeling lucky!

To confirm the diagnosis I did:
% cvs -qn update | & cat -v
…
Cannot access /gpfs/fs0/cvs^M/CVSROOT
No such file or directory
%

Cleaning out the ^Ms did the trick.