[geeks] Bad CVS issue

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Nov 17 17:05:40 CST 2008


On Nov 15, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> I tried changing my cvswrapper file using the one found at / 
> Developer/Tools/cvswrappers on my Mac, and checked it in.
>
> Now, all the CVS client versions I have around refuse to checkout,  
> checkin, or import, saying:
> cvs [checkout aborted]: -t/-f wrappers not supported by this  
> version of CVS  This includes not being able to do a checkout of  
> CVSROOT to revert the file.
>
> The version of CVS client on the server is slightly newer than the  
> Mac (1.11.22 vs 1.11.20).  I also tried 1.12.13.
>
> Does anyone know how to A) revert this, and B) work around the lack  
> of -t/-f support, which is apparently needed for handing some of  
> the binary files in an Xcode project.

I never figured out how to fix this without the restore from backup,  
so I bit the bullet and restored from backup, then restored the  
latest versions from my local repository.



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