CVSROOT problem because of username string
- by jatanp
Hi,
I have always been SVN user but currently I have to use CVS as the source repository. I am quite new to CVS and really got confused many a times (reason being I always tried to access CVS like SVN !)
However now I am really stuck in one problem wherein I am not able to do any cvs operations through cygwin. Actually I have checked out the code using WinCVS and while doing that it created the CVSROOT as following,
:pserver;username=<user_name>;password=<pwd>:<serverip>:/cvs/repository
However whenever I try to use cvs command in cygwin (after setting CVSROOT variable using export) it fails with following error:
cvs update: Unknown option (`username') in CVSROOT.
cvs update: in directory .:
cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it does not contain a valid root.
cvs update: Unknown option (`username') in CVSROOT.
cvs [update aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: `:pserver;username=<user_name>;password=<pwd>:<serverip>:/cvs/repository'.
However the command works fine, if invoked through dos command prompt. I got to know that on DOS prompt, cvs command is provided by CVSNT whereas in cygwin it's some different package.
Please let me know where I have made a mistake and how it can be corrected !
I need cvs to work inside cygwin for some scripting purpose.
