Re: patch: trailing slash messes up export

[miles zarathustra]

> Can you send a few commands duplicating the problem that caused you to
> report this in the first place?  Removing the "/"s from CVSROOTs
> shouldn't hurt, but I tried your export command as described with 1.12.1
> and had no problems.

I had been using 1.11, but just got the same thing with 1.12.  Apparently it
starts to do a checkout, and creates the CVS directory underneath.  Then it
looks and sees the CVS directory, and says "hey, I can't export to here!"

Please let me know if you have further questions.

  -= miles =-

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[godzilla-.../jdbc-mysql/tmp] export CVSROOT=/home/shiva/cvsroot/
[godzilla-.../jdbc-mysql/tmp] cvs export -Dnow sql
cvs [export aborted]: cannot export into working directory
[godzilla-.../jdbc-mysql/tmp] ls
sql/
[godzilla-.../jdbc-mysql/tmp] ls sql
CVS/
[godzilla-.../jdbc-mysql/tmp] cvs --version

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.1 (client/server)

Copyright (c) 1989-2003 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn,
                        Jeff Polk, and other authors

CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.

Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
[godzilla-.../jdbc-mysql/tmp] ls sql
CVS/
[godzilla-.../jdbc-mysql/tmp]