Re: Prob with cvs

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

to me, Netbsd-Users-List
I don't think anyone understands what you are trying to do:

On Wed, 10 Jun 2026, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> I update the revision number (of .xinitrc) .
> (1.2x to 2.0).

What does this mean? Where and what is .xinitrc? What does it have to do
with CVS? How did you update its revision number?

> cvs co .xinitrc
>    cvs checkout:  cannot find module '.xinitrc'

The cvs program is a client that speaks to a CVS server. The checkout
command (here abbreviated to co) retrieves a whole module stored on that
server (e.g. src on anoncvs.netbsd.org) which may contains thousands of
subdirectories and files. It is NOT used to deal with individual files.

What do the following say in the directory that you are trying to do this?

echo $CVSROOT
cat CVS/Repository
cat CVS/Root
cvs log .xinitrc

> Why does cvs hate .xinitrc? How do I fix this?

cvs co doesn't know anything about .xinitrc as it is not a module on the
server you are trying to connect to.

This is no different to:
% ls .nonexistent
ls: .nonexistent: No such file or directory

That doesn't mean ls hates .nonexistent - it just doesn't exist.

--
Stephen

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YAAAHH. I get it; but I dont know how to fix it.
I did as to said:

echo $CVSROOT
/usr/cvsroot

cat CVS/Repository
cat: CVS/Repository: No such file or directory

cat CVS/Root
cat: CVS/Root: No such file or directory

cvs log/.xinitrc
Unknown command: `log/.xinitrc'


I home this helps. I ONLY seem to have prob
ONLY with .xinitrc ...









On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 3:58 AM Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
> I don't think anyone understands what you are trying to do:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2026, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > I update the revision number (of .xinitrc) .
> > (1.2x to 2.0).
>
> What does this mean? Where and what is .xinitrc? What does it have to do
> with CVS? How did you update its revision number?
>
> > cvs co .xinitrc
> >    cvs checkout:  cannot find module '.xinitrc'
>
> The cvs program is a client that speaks to a CVS server. The checkout
> command (here abbreviated to co) retrieves a whole module stored on that
> server (e.g. src on anoncvs.netbsd.org) which may contains thousands of
> subdirectories and files. It is NOT used to deal with individual files.
>
> What do the following say in the directory that you are trying to do this?
>
> echo $CVSROOT
> cat CVS/Repository
> cat CVS/Root
> cvs log .xinitrc
>
> > Why does cvs hate .xinitrc? How do I fix this?
>
> cvs co doesn't know anything about .xinitrc as it is not a module on the
> server you are trying to connect to.
>
> This is no different to:
> % ls .nonexistent
> ls: .nonexistent: No such file or directory
>
> That doesn't mean ls hates .nonexistent - it just doesn't exist.
>
> --
> Stephen