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Bug 125850

Summary: eclipse does not support CVSROOT syntax as generated by WinCVS 2.0
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Daniel Friederich <danielfriederich>
Component: CVSAssignee: platform-cvs-inbox <platform-cvs-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.1.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Daniel Friederich CLA 2006-01-31 11:03:54 EST 
The currently recommended WinCvs client on Windows does propose a CVSROOT format which is not understood by the cvs eclipse plugins.
When entering the user name, server, serverpath in the WinCVS GUI, WinCVS generates the following CVSROOT:

:pserver;username=dfriederich;hostname=cvsserver.whatever.com:/path

This format however is not understood by eclipse, which expects the traditional 
:pserver:dfriederich@cvsserver.whatever.com:/path
format only.

As WinCVS is very commonly used on Windows, I guess this incompatibility will shop up more often.
The workaround is to patch all Root files in all CVS subdirectories.
Comment 1 Daniel Friederich CLA 2006-01-31 11:14:43 EST 
Created attachment 33868 [details]
error message as shown by eclipse
Comment 2 Michael Valenta CLA 2006-01-31 11:16:38 EST 
Support was added in 3.2

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77477 ***