125850 – eclipse does not support CVSROOT syntax as generated by WinCVS 2.0

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Bug 125850 - eclipse does not support CVSROOT syntax as generated by WinCVS 2.0

Summary: eclipse does not support CVSROOT syntax as generated by WinCVS 2.0

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77477

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	CVS (show other bugs)
Version:	3.1.1
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	platform-cvs-inbox
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Reported:	2006-01-31 11:03 EST by Daniel Friederich
Modified:	2006-01-31 11:16 EST (History)
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Description Daniel Friederich

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

2006-01-31 11:14:43 EST

Created attachment 33868 [details]
error message as shown by eclipse

Comment 2 Michael Valenta

2006-01-31 11:16:38 EST

Support was added in 3.2

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