[OS X TeX] Oh boy!!!

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 25, 2005, at 5:44 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

>>>>>> Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> (HS) wrote:
>
>> HS> I guess I spoke too soon. I'm getting errors when trying to  
>> submit  changes
>> HS> to a project. Can anyone out there give me a clue of how to   
>> bring my local
>> HS> CVS repository from my old computer to my new one?
>
> What kind of errors?
>
> In your sandbox (working directory) there is a directory called  
> CVS. It has
> a file Root that contains the location of the repository. You can edit
> that. Please note that there is one in each subdirectory.
>
> It might be cleaner to checkout your project from the new  
> repository to a
> new working directory and then copy the files from your old working
> directory over it (recursively) excluding the CVS directories. Then  
> commit
> the new thing.
>
> By the way, if your repository on your new machine is on the same  
> path as
> in the old machine no changes would be necessary.
> -- 
> Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4]
> Private email: piet at vanoostrum.org

Howdy,

The path was identical, so that wasn't the problem. I had changed  
ownership to root so cvs couldn't write to the sub-directories. When  
I checked on my original system, the owner of those directories,  
recursively, was me. Once I fixed that all went smoothly.

I keep hearing about a new/better version control system but don't  
know anything about it. Does it even come as part of OS X 10.4? Once  
I set up a project I use CVL as a GUI front end and everything works  
easily; even a remote project comes up out of the box but that took a  
bit more fiddling to learn how to do that.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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