Re: Problem using GIT CVS-server

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: May 3, 2006, 08:44 UTC
Message-ID: <44586D73.5060301@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <4458691A.4010007@lumumba.uhasselt.be>

Panagiotis Issaris wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>>
>> Drop -z3 from command-line. git-cvsserver has no compression support.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ahum, painful. That should have been obvious :), but I'm kinda programmed
> to use "-z3 -PAd" whenever I do a cvs update. I didn't even notice the 
> z3 in
> my own typing :->
> 
> 
> Without the z3, it gives the same error/warning as on checkout:
> takis@issaris:/tmp/a/b/project-master$ cvs update -PAd
> takis@localhost's password:
> closing dbh with active statement handles
> takis@issaris:/tmp/a/b/project-master$
>

That error message comes from your client. I have no idea why, and now that I'm a git fanatic I'll stay blissfully ignorant of CVS' internal workings. Martyn and Martin (the dynamic duo that wrote the cvsserver thingie) might be able to tell you more.

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