Re: [Pythoncard-devel] CVS woes

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I don't use this combination of tools so can't help directly. But it 
sounds to me like you are identifying yourself to SourceForge correctly. 
A quick Google;
 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cvs+%5Bserver+aborted%5D%3A+%22commit%22+requires+write+access+to+the+repository&btnG=Google+Search

Gives these examples;

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-08/msg01282.html
http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/1999-September/011406.html

Can I suggest you open a support ticket at SourceForge as they are a lot 
better at sorting these things out than I am ;-)

Regards,
Andy
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