From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: State of Emacs repository backup
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:23:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prdioj2c.fsf@meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2AF102C1-DF17-4308-9D52-E174B8476405@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:10:41 -0400")
David Reitter wrote:
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> I wrote:
>>> The CVS repository is restored, and the git repo
>>> is temporarily in sync. Details here:
>>>
>>> https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106848
>
> Is there a permissions problem with the history file?
>
> /sources/emacs/emacs/src/ChangeLog,v <-- ChangeLog
> new revision: 1.7558; previous revision: 1.7557
> cvs commit: warning: cannot open history file `/sources/emacs/CVSROOT/
> history' for write: Permission denied
It was missing, and the containing directory was writable
only by root. I've just created the file and made it writable
by group "emacs", so you should no longer see that warning.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-05 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 12:44 State of Emacs repository backup Andreas Schwab
2009-06-02 13:41 ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-02 13:52 ` Jim Meyering
2009-06-02 23:01 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-03 7:37 ` Jim Meyering
2009-06-03 15:54 ` Jim Meyering
2009-06-03 20:05 ` Jim Meyering
2009-06-04 11:03 ` Jim Meyering
[not found] ` <2AF102C1-DF17-4308-9D52-E174B8476405@gmail.com>
2009-06-05 14:23 ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2009-06-02 14:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-06-02 14:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-02 18:50 ` Glenn Morris
2009-06-02 20:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-06-03 2:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-03 4:09 ` Glenn Morris
2009-06-04 1:50 ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-04 6:27 ` Glenn Morris
2009-06-05 19:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-06-02 15:48 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-02 15:54 ` Andreas Schwab
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