No Points here by the way, but i don't want to delete this one, since i may help others
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cvs admin -kkv foo.c
cvs update -A foo.c
i got the following message:
cvs server: [19:55:34] waiting for quincy's lock in /u10/cvs/src/master/mpa/we
i need to unlock this directory / my files!
i tried cvs admin -u foo.c
but that didn't work
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by: AcklenXPosted on 2004-01-28 at 13:11:51ID: 10222058
i found the answer here tml/wincvs 11.htm
http://www.wincvs.org/winh
In cases where cvs aborted for some reason (such as a network timeout or machine reboot), the lock may need to be removed manually. The #cvs.lock directory should be located in the indicated repository and removed using the UNIX rmdir command.