[Pythoncard-devel] CVS woes

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

Sigh. I hate CVS.

Problem: when I try to do a commit, I get the error
cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository
cvs commit: saving log message in C:\DOCUME~1\Eleane\LOCALS~1\Temp\cvs5

Background:
I haven't used cvs much at all. Last July or August or so Kevin walked 
me through the process of getting set up, and I was able to commit stuff 
OK. I haven't had anything to commit since maybe September or October - 
so I've had plenty time to forget things.

In the meantime, my laptop has died, and I've brought everything back 
from backups on to a new machine - so I've had plenty of opportunity to 
forget things.

Foreground:
I've reloaded Putty/Pageant, and restored my ppk file.
I've installed cvs.
I've added my sourceforge key to pageant
I've brought up Putty connection over ssh to cvs.sorceforge.net - and 
get the message
  "authenticating to cvs.sourceforge.net using public key" etc. just as 
I remembered.

I then do a
cvs -d:pserver:ale...@cv...:/cvsroot/pythoncard login
and when prompted give my password - and when I type it correctly, get 
no error. (I mis-typed it just to check - and that does give an error).

I can do cvs checkout, cvs update, cvs diff, etc.    but when I do a cvs 
commit, after entering the log file info, I get the error as above, i.e.
cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository
cvs commit: saving log message in C:\DOCUME~1\Eleane\LOCALS~1\Temp\cvs5

Question:
anything obvious I've forgotten or done wrong ?
any suggestions ?

Thanks
-- Alex.

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