I was trying to get the History of file from Tortoise CVS and i was getting the below error
cvs log: nothing known about [filename]
What should i be doing to resolve this, i did a fresh checkout and these files do come as part of the checkout, but any other workflow activity on them like log, remove etc does not work.
I got this issue because of a conflict in case names of directories, our CVS Repository was in Unix, so when two different team memebers created dirs named js and JS in different branches, it caused quite a bit of confusion on the client side which is Windows.
I resolved the issue by checking out the repository in Linux, deleting the file from one of the dirs, and asking the CVS Admin to physically delete the directory from the CVS Repository itself.