Re: [Savannah-help-public] cvs commit problems

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

It's likely that you work in an anonymous working copy.  Check your
rita/doc/CVS/Root - if it's 'pserver' instead of 'ext' this is a
read-only working copy and you need to check out another one using the
'ext' method.

-- 
Sylvain

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:40:12PM -0300, Andre Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> 
> It happens anywhere. For instance, if a go to
> 
> <cvs_root_dir>/rita/doc
> 
> and issue the command
> 
> cvs commit -m "updating documentation" rita.txt
> 
> I receive the error message
> 
> cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> André
> 
> On 5/20/07, Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >As far as I can see your account can commit to the repository correctly.
> >
> >Can you give us the command that you use to commit, and the directory
> >where you are commiting?
> >
> >--
> >Sylvain
> >
> >On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:49:27PM -0300, Andre Rodrigues wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> My name is André, I have a project in savannah:
> >> https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rita/
> >>
> >> After creating the project I didn't updated it for a long time. Now
> >> I'm trying to make new contributions to it. the problem seems to be
> >> that I don't have write access to the project.
> >>
> >> I downloaded the code successfully with cvs checkout and updated it
> >> successfully with cvs update .
> >>
> >> The problem is that when I try to commit my changes I receive the
> >> following error:
> >> cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository
> >> cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvsMPCvYD
> >>
> >> Can you help?
> >>
> >> I'm adding below information regarding the result of the commands
> >> described in the cvs troubleshooting page.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> André
> >>
> >> 
> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> cvs -t -d:ext:address@hidden/cvsroot/rita co rita
> >