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Asked: 2026-06-14T03:39:16+00:00

I need to checkout from a CVS base in Linux, on a Windows machine

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I need to checkout from a CVS base in Linux, on a Windows machine with a directory link to a samba folder on Linux. In Linux, my cvsroot folder is

mylogin$ cd /home/myuser/repositories/cvsroot
mylogin$ ls
CVSROOT PRJ1 PRJ2
mylogin$

which is mapped from Samba. On Windows, it is mapped to a drive z: from /home/myuser/repositories/. Also on Windows, my CVSROOT environment variable is configured as CVSROOT=z:\cvsroot.

So, for checking out PRJ1 on a Windows folder, I tried

cvs co PRJ1 .

and it returned me the error message

cvs [checkout aborted]: Failed to resolve path: `Z:\cvsroot’: No such file or di
rectory

So, what did I miss?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just found out the answer.

    The post from cvs checkout from windows command line helped me. So I used 

    cvs -q -d /cygdrive/z/cvsroot co -d . PRJ1

    and it worked.

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