Version Control problem when getting package

[moggel]

I made an attempt at setting up version control for my company but then ran into a wall of error messages. I've managed to set up a CSS project, added some controlled packages into it but I simply cannot get a package from the CSS server. This is what I do:

1. I right click a package in a project (configured for CSS) that I want to become the imported package's parent.

2. From the context menu I select "Package Control" -> "Get Package" -> <name of my CSS configuration>

This always result in the following error dialog:

"The CSS provider returned an error"

What is wrong?

[moggel]

Anyone?  

[mikewhit]

Come on - your initial posting was on a Saturday - give everyone a chance to get back into work !!

Regarding your question, I presume you mean CVS not CSS (and not VSS!),  don't have the right setup, but I guess it depends what the error was. Any way of finding out ? Is there a log somewhere which tells you ?

You could try to second-guess: what are the possible errors ... wrong password / login id, file does not exist ... etc. in which case look at what might go wrong.

Can you retrieve the same package using normal CVS tools ? Is $CVSROOT working as you would expect, for EA ? Can EA call the provider correctly ? Are there 'odd' characters in the filenames ?

Once I had the CVS provider working, I had no problems using EA with CVS.

[moggel]

Come on - your initial posting was on a Saturday - give everyone a chance to get back into work !!

I just wanted to avoid the post being pushed too far down during the weekend.

Regarding your question, I presume you mean CVS not CSS (and not VSS!),  don't have the right setup, but I guess it depends what the error was. Any way of finding out ? Is there a log somewhere which tells you ?

You could try to second-guess: what are the possible errors ... wrong password / login id, file does not exist ... etc. in which case look at what might go wrong.

I do mean CSS (Visual Source Safe). We're using that system at our company to version control our source code and it has worked well (most of the time).

The logon credentials should be set up OK because I'm using the same configuration while checking packages in.

Can you retrieve the same package using normal CVS tools ? Is $CVSROOT working as you would expect, for EA ? Can EA call the provider correctly ? Are there 'odd' characters in the filenames ?

Once I had the CVS provider working, I had no problems using EA with CVS.

Using the standard Visual Source Safe client (or Visual Studio .NET) while checking files in/oit is no problem. I just can't check packages out from inside EA.

[Takeshi K]

Hello Moggel,

If your VSS is old, VSS has a bug which causes the error
message.

I can avoid the bug by applying newest Service Pack 6,
so please try if you use older build of VSS.

--
t-kouno

[moggel]

Problem solved. We installed VSS 2005 and everything works fine. Thanks for putting me on the right track!