Exporting a CVS

[beaver6813]

Hey,

PLEASE can someone help me before i end up pulling all my hair out and destroying this damn computer! I am at the end of my tether with this thing :yell:

Basically i'm trying to export or checkout LibTidy from its CVS... but it just doesnt work.. http://tidy.sourceforge.net/libintro.html is their so called walkthrough on how to get that to work... but it doesn't

I've been able to login via:

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/tidy login

But i just simple cannot export or checkout the damn thing. I try to run:

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/tidy export -d /libtidy -r HEAD _ build console htmldoc include src test

Using what it says on the Libtidy site but it just does not work! It says:

cvs server: cannot find module `_' - ignored
cvs server: cannot find module `build' - ignored
cvs server: cannot find module `console' - ignored
cvs server: cannot find module `htmldoc' - ignored
cvs server: cannot find module `include' - ignored
cvs server: cannot find module `src' - ignored
cvs server: cannot find module `test' - ignored
cvs [export aborted]: cannot expand modules

Please someone help!

 

[Eric]

1.) you're not supposed to include the '_'
2.) Strange, I tried every *valid* variation I could think of and it won't work...

 

[beaver6813]

1.) you're not supposed to include the '_'
2.) Strange, I tried every *valid* variation I could think of and it won't work...

Thanks for trying, i tried with and without the _, i've tried exporting, checking out, and with god knows how many different combinations of tags Anyone else having any luck?

 

[TwistMyArm]

I haven't used CVS in a long time, but looking at http://tidy.cvs.sourceforge.net/tidy/ , I wonder if replacing:
export -d /libtidy
with:
export -d /tidy

would help?

 

[beaver6813]

/libtidy is just the directory on my server that it needs to be exported to

 

[TwistMyArm]

Oops, my bad Like I say, and now quite obviously, I haven't used CVS in a fair while

The other problem, of course, could be that it's SourceForge. I couldn't tell you how many times I've had problems with CVS on SF, even when it says everything is fine...

 

[Eric]

Yeah, and if I remember correctly - sourceforge was changing the CVS system or whatever - so that could be your problem, that tidylib didn't switch over. Why do you need CVS anyway, don't that have a tarball?

 

[beaver6813]

No thats THE most annoying thing, they dont, apparently to "stop hackers" but to be honest that is a load of crap, they just can't be bothered to set it all up. The huge problem is probably is because they didn't switch... although god knows what i did last night, but one command got it working, i so wish i could remember the command! (I had to rebuild the server, lost tidylib )

If anyone does help me get it working i will provide a service that just makes builds automatically to save anyone else the hassle lol.

Thanks for all your help guys I guess everyones outta ideas now

 

[Eric]

I'm still looking into it - I'll post here if I have any success.

 

[beaver6813]

Okay thanks, i tried the old version that i found and it just doesn't work Previously when i managed to download from the CVS it did work, im so annoyed about not being able to remember the command i ran!

If worst comes to worst i'll guess i'll have to manually go through every file in the sourceforge repository viewer and download each one

Thanks secondversion

EDIT: **** YEA! I've managed to get the CVS to link up and download from it... I used WinCVS because i needed some help But i tells ya it took a lot of trial and error!

I'll be posting a full tutorial of this for normal ssh/unix/linux whatever and maybe creating a quick repository download script, i'll at least be tarballing this:

EDIT EDIT: Tarballed version here


First login on WinCVS with console enabled, run:

 cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/tidy login

in the console.

Then go to remote->checkout module, settings are:
Module Names:

tidy/build tidy/console tidy/htmldoc tidy/include tidy/src tidy/test

Local folder to checkout to:

C:\tidylib (orwhatever you want)

Tick CVSROOT and enter:

:pserver;[email protected];hostname=tidy.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tidy

Click OK and it should start checking out :D