Re: jCVS-4.7.3 overwriting Entries files?

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

Yes, your report is correct.

The only workaround is to checkout the entire tree and
then use "Browse" to open subtree as independent projects.
Hopefully fixed in 4.8! :)

tim.
Tim Endres, ICE Engineering, Inc.
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On Tue, Sep 22 1998, Sandy Wise wrote:
> Doing checkouts for multiple CVS modules in the same tree seems to overwrite
> the Entries files in the working directories. Has anyone else encountered
> this problem? Is there an easy fix?
>     /s
> 
> Example, given a repository:
> 
> dirA/
>     file1
>     dirB/
>         file2
>     dirC/
>         file3
> 
> Suppose I want to work on the code in dirA and dirB (but not dirC) -- so I
> check out dirA (with a -l to prevent recursion) followed by a check out of
> dirB -- at this point dirA/CVS/Entries is overwritten, so I can no longer
> see file1 in jCVS!