[MPlayer-DOCS] main/DOCS/en/mplayer.1

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 23 July 2005 01:37, The Wanderer wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Friday 22 July 2005 23:11, The Wanderer wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>> Wanderer, this sounds like an excellent opportunity for you to
> >>> learn how to apply a patch ;)
> >>
> >> Well, I think I know how to apply a patch, but apparently I don't
> >> know CVS very well; as far as I can tell I'm logged in correctly -
> >> the CVS/Root file has the correct username, 'cvs update' works
> >> correctly so presumably the password is correct - but CVS keeps
> >> saying '"commit" requires write access to the repository'. Bad
> >> enough that I broke my original source tree trying to switch over
> >> from 'anonymous' to an actual username without having to check the
> >> entire thing out again, but now it doesn't even seem to work
> >> regardless...? Must not be my month.
> >>
> >> Any idea where to look to figure out what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > did you fix all CVS/Root files? theres one for each directory
>
> As I said, I broke my original source tree (piles of "<file> is in the
> way" errors); my current one was checked out fresh, with the new
> username, so the entire directory structure should be correct. I am,
> however, using :pserver: and not :ext: (which latter I'd never heard of,
> since neither appears to be documented in the man page and I haven't
> found any obvious better documentation); 

did you read MPlayer/main/DOCS/tech/cvs-howto.txt ?

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Michael