[PLUG] CVS commit problems

Will Andrews andrews@technologist.com
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:53:36 -0500


On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:51:21PM -0500, he@expert.cc.purdue.edu wrote:
>         Hi, I have another question: when I tried to commit CVS
> source
> tree as root. I first use "cvs checkout <proj_name>", and then modify
> some files, then when I typed "cvs commit", it displays:
>  
> cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'
>  
>         Is it saying we cann't check in cvs source files as root ? (the
> repository is in local machine)

Weird, I've never seen this sort of thing before.  But I usually use a
normal user for my CVS stuff.

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