Re: Prob with cvs

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

OOOPs.

Gonna redo ...

On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 7:45 AM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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:
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> echo $CVSROOT
> /usr/cvsroot
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> cat CVS/Repository
> cat: CVS/Repository: No such file or directory
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> cat CVS/Root
> cat: CVS/Root: No such file or directory
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> cvs log/.xinitrc
> Unknown command: `log/.xinitrc'
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> I home this helps. I ONLY seem to have prob
> ONLY with .xinitrc ...
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> 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