Re: $Name$ Keyword does not expand
Hello! I found the post below in the info-cvs archives from April of 2001. Can anyone tell me if this issue has been fixed? I have just run into this problem (using a somewhat backlevel version of cvs ... 1.11.2). In my opinion, if cvs doesn't substitute for $Name when the tag used is a branch, then this is just flat broken. Why would it not be? The documentation for $Name is pretty clear: Name: the tag that was used to retrieve the file. So please tell me that this is already fixed, and I just need to move to a newer version of cvs. Thanks! David D. Hagood wrote: Markus Grunwald wrote: Hi there ! I would like to use the $Name$ Keyword in my java source. To do this, I added the line: public final static String cvsRelease = new String($Name$); to my source. Then, I tagged it prerelease-1_0. To get the substitution, I executed cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout -r prerelease-1_0 UserAccount but the line just expanded to public final static String cvsRelease = new String($Name: $); I thought, there should stand $Name: prerelease-1_0$ ??? Other tags ($id$...) work just fine. The log says, the tag is there: Is prerelease-1_0 a branch or a leaf? If is is a branch, then it won't get expanded (I've complained about this behavior before in this discussion, look for my previous posts). Mike Kistler___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Good cvs tutotial wanted
On Saturday 28 May 2005 12:01, Aaron Gray wrote: Hi, I am a CVS virtual newbie and am looking for a good simple tutorial to get me started. Many thanks in advance, Aaron This may be a good start: http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ Regards, Mike Klinke ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: $id automatically inserted in file
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Klaus Hebsgaard wrote: Hello I am using cvs for keeping some html files, in these html files i have strings like $id$. cvs sees this and think it is suppose to add it logging in here. However I don't want this to happen. Is there some way to prevent cvs from writing anything to the file? Thanks in advance Klaus Separate or change the case of $Id$. Something that looks like '$I d$' or '$id$'. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: CVS Problem
On Thursday 21 April 2005 17:27, Manuel Ledesma wrote: I was using CVS in local machine fine; running on top of Fedore Core 4. my cvs version is 1.11.20 and after updating my system, I started getting this error: Didn't CVS just move to the list of apps now under SELinux control? Could this be related? From a recent FC4 update selinux-policy-targeted-1.23.12-1 - * Wed Apr 20 2005 Dan Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.23.12-1 - Fix dhcpc.te - fix hostname.te for targeted domain - Update from NSA * Added CVS and uucpd policy from Dan Walsh. Regards, Mike Klinke ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
How to take files _after_ some date
Hi! Can I use cvs to take files which was changed _after_ some DATE. I need it to see what files I change today, for example.. Or exists more correct way? Thanks. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: How to take files _after_ some date
I read man but I can't solve problem in this way. My problem is that I whant to list files (e.g. 10 from 1000), futhermore, to copy it. I begin to use cvs recently and try to learn all features tha it provide. This feature will be very helpful for me. I have a nested tree of files and sometimes little changes that have been made located far from each other. Thanks for help. Jim.Hyslop wrote: Mike Duganets wrote: Hi! Can I use cvs to take files which was changed _after_ some DATE. I need it to see what files I change today, for example.. Use 'cvs log -d today' The manual has more details on how to use -d in various combinations and ranges: https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.19/cvs_16.html#SEC145 ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: How to take files _after_ some date
Hi. Originally I whanted to do `checkout` of of files filtered by date range. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Simplifying the version number
Hi all, I am trying to correct an error that was made with our cvs repository a while back. We have what we consider to be our main branch, which has been tagged with the sticky tag R1-0. Most of the files with that sticky tag have a working version number in the form 1.1.2.x. However we have a few files that have much longer version numbers, e.g. 1.1.1.1.2.2.2.23. I guess when the original creation of the R1-0 main branch was done, it included files merged from other branches. What we would like to do is to get all the files in the main branch to have a shorter version number, not necessarily 1.1.2.x but 1.1.x.y would do. Is this feasible at all? I hope my question makes sense... Thanks in advance. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: problem setting cvs pserver
On Thursday 17 February 2005 16:10, alex wrote: I read it before but couldn't find an answer. thanks for your help. Alex Well, for what it's worth I also run FC3, took your cvspserver file, popped it into my xinetd.d directory and restarted xinetd. No problems here as you can see below. I don't have it running but could FC3's SELinux be tripping you up if you have it running in strict mode? # telnet localhost 2401 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start: Connection closed by foreign host Regards, Mike Klinke ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
contributions to cvs?
Is there a way to send scripts and such as contributions to cvs? Has there been a discussion about adding the 'password' command to cvs (i.e. cvs password)? I'd prefer to update passwords using the cvs command rather than hack something else together. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
confused over tags
I'm very confused over tags and sticky tags. I have several projects at work where there is are dev, test, and prod environments. What I wanted to do, and this is probably where I'm very confused, is to have a prod tag and a test tag. The dev environment would be the default with no tag. I expected the developers to work on their stuff and when it's ready for testing (QA) an admin would put a TEST tag on the files. The same for production and a PROD tag. In production there would be a weekly update from CVS of those files with the PROD tag. When I tried a 'cvs update -t PROD' in one of the directories it removed those things not yet in cvs from the directory, leaving the one file that had a PROD tag, but also set a stick tag to PROD so that I couldn't checkout new updates. Where can I read more about this, or some series of commands, so I can understand what's going on? Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
script for automatic checkin and update?
I now have system-type application-admin support of some applications and to control what goes on I'm having the app-admin folks place all company-written scripts and data files (data files that drive the app, not data files as in temporary or database files) into cvs. What I have at for the current app is: /app /bin /prod /lookups /scripts /ftp /test /lookups /scripts /ftp /dev /lookups /scripts /ftp I'm thinking of having the cvs repo so that it looks like: /app /bin /lookups /scripts /ftp and making the changes as necessary at 'cvs co' time. On the next version of the app I will have the admin people install the app in all three environments so that it mirrors the cvs repo exactly. To reduce the activity in production and to reduce what the app developers can do I'm going to change all app common account passwords and create each app developer an individual account, teaching them how to deal with cvs. I have also created a samba share to their home directories so they can edit the files as if the files were coming from a windows native share instead of having to ftp the files to their workstations, edit the files, then ftp the files back (their editor does the ftp part for them). To make things easier for the developers I'm writing a script that will run in their home directories looking for those directories that have a 'CVS' directory. When that directory is found then the script does a 'cvs -n update' looking for files that have been modified, files in cvs that are not local, and files that are local but not in cvs. Using the three types of files the script looks for a file named 'cvs.files'. In that file if the modified file is listed at the beginning of the line, the file is then 'cvs ci -m MESSAGE FILE' with the rest of the line. If the file is local, and not yet in cvs, and is at the first of the line, then the script will do a 'cvs add FILE' followed by a checkin. I've not yet thought of a good way to setup a pull from the repo, and a remove from the repo. Does this make sense? I feel like I'm just blathering on. Also, if anyone has some ideas or things I've not thought about I'd appreciate hearing them. Files beginning with blank or '#' are ignored. 'datafile' will be checked in as: cvs ci -m 'added partner foobar' datafile. 'datafile.sh' will not be checked. The line #+datafile.pl... how about this to indicate the file exists in cvs, but not locally. Then removing the '#' would say to the script to do a 'cvs co datafile.pl'? What about some directive to update the local versions with the versions from cvs (for unit testing prior to checkin)? cvs.file # last processed: Thu Nov 25 10:28:21 CST 2004 # 0 files checked in, 0 files added, 0 files removed # directory: txedi001:/home/user/app/lookups # cvsroot: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/CVS/cvsroot # # files: datafile added partner foobar #datafile.sh #+datafile.pl # end of cvs.files cvs.file Also this is for an application that is made of three environments. What I'm considering is first checkin PROD, then add a '-t PROD' tag to the last version. Then checking TEST adding a '-t TEST' to that last version. I don't want the developers to know how to add tags, either that or not let them add/change tags. In production I intend to for the weekly rollout of code do a 'cvs co -t PROD app'. How to prevent the developers from adding tags? Is this a good way to manage the three environments? Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
easy method to change user passwords?
Having several users working in cvs, is there an easy for them to change their passwords? I expected 'cvs passwd'. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Is import really necessary?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Derek Robert Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Assuming all you need to do is create a new project in CVS based on an
existing tree at /home/user/newtree, the following should work:
cvs co -ldtop .
cd top
mv /home/user/newtree .
find newtree -exec cvs add {} \;
cvs ci
Hmmm. I like this! Is it possible to use an import-less
approach like this one if top is one's home directory
(meaning that there will be a lot of other stuff there
besides newtree)?
Mike
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Re: Two different platforms sharing common code base: How to do so?
Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Well, it depends upon the tool you're using. We are building drivers, and they need the build.exe tool, which is part of the DDK. That one can only compile files in the current directory. As John has pointed out, it might even be able to compile files in the parent directory, which would help here. I've done several developments for Windows drivers where some of the driver source was shared with Linux and BSD drivers. The solution we came up with was to write a perl build script for the Linux BSD drivers which generated a makefile (in a build directory) from the data accumulated from the sources files in each directory. The advantages of this are: 1. only have to modify one file when adding a new source file. 2. Linux drivers can be built using supported mechanism e.g. kbuild for linux. 3. Windows drivers are built in DDK environment using dirs/sources mechanism as supported by MS. So this means that the Windows Makefiles are stored in the main source tree and the Linux Makefile is generated by a script and is placed in a separate build directory. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
cvs vs. clearcase?
I have a director asking why I don't want to user the company's clear case server. One item I mentioned is the lack of integration into unix tools and the lack of a unix client. Are these good/valid reasons? What are other reasons? Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Installing CVS on a Power 5 IBM server
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark D. Baushke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jacques Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark D. Baushke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Operating system will you be running on it? Actually there will be 2 servers - AIX 5L and Linux. It should work fine with GNU/Linux as the OS. I know that AIX4.3 works with cvs 1.11.18, so it should work for AIX 5L. Thanks. Although these it should work leave some room for the unexpected ;-). Yes. I have no reports of anyone using cvs 1.11.x under AIX 5L and it is not currently in any of the test beds. If you really care, then I suggest you ask the vendor to test it for you and submit problems reports and/or bug fixes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for remedy. Are they just a guess, or do you have experience with installing/running CVS on these Power 5 systems? I have never worked with AIX 5L myself. However, a quick look for POSIX and AIX 5L shows that AIX 5L is supposed implement POSIX 1003.1-1996 which should be good enough for our GNULIB system to figure out how to do the things it needs to do. I would urge you to do a full configure and 'make check' on the system to see if it passes all of the regression tests or not. Feel free to report your results to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list as I am sure they will be interested to know if it works for you or not. Good luck, -- Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFBo1nm3x41pRYZE/gRAsXhAJiXvXbKsbNzb8mjJXPGfugmt93FAJ9BULp6 ZC8bLTWGbP//DQb06OhPPg== =6XF8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- I'm using cvs 1.12.2 on aix 5.2 ML 4. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
how to do this?
I need some help. I have an application that is running 3 environments. I want to have a single cvs tree that supports the 3 environments. The source moves from one environment to the next using tags. I don't know how to create the environment. I know I can use the 'cvs co -d env os/app' to checkout the source, but is there a reverse to build? I have something like: /os/app /dev /test /prod The source is the same in the environments, just at different stages of development. I want to store the source in a tree like: /os/app Suggestions on how to do this? Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
how to do an rcs revert?
Given a project a that has the path a/b/c/d and a file a/b/c/d/file1, you check in file1, then make a change, check in the change, then want to revert to the original version, how do you do it? This is like 'cd a/b/c/d ; co -r1.1 file1'. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Ineroperability problem with Tortoise CVS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not without hacking the source code. Okay fair enough. You may wish to file a bug report with the Tortoise CVS folks and/or CVSNT folks. Looks like its unneccessary. The log parsing code in Tortoise CVS has been rewritten since the last stable release and the new parser looks like it will handle the new date format without problems. I'll grab a test release to check and report a bug if there are still problems. For now, you will probably need to go in and hack the src/main.c::format_time_t() and src/main.c:gmformat_time_t() functions by hand. Thanks for that. If the end users of the system complain I know where to go and hack. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Ineroperability problem with Tortoise CVS
Just spotted a slight interoperability problem with Tortoise CVS and CVS 1.12.9. The new date formatting code confuses the Tortoise cvs log output parsing code as the new local time formatting of dates end up using - to separate the year/month/day fields instead of the / used in older versions of CVS. The TortoiseCVS Version is 1.6.14 which has a CVSNT version of 2.0.41a. Is there anything I can do to persuade CVS 1.12.9 to output dates in the old format? Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive me if I am mistaken, and in any case I certainly don't want to start a flame war, but am I right in thinking that Greg's opinion does not reflect the majority view? I can't speak for the majority, but I pretty much agree with Greg. Quibble time: *if* you run cvs on a network you're sure is secure and everybody on it can be absolutely trusted (to the point where you'd be perfectly comfortable giving the root password to anybody who had an actual need for it), pserver is usable. It serves to prevent mistakes. It may be slightly easier to set up than rsh, or it may not be. However, if there is any shadow of doubt, then all pserver gives you is anonymous access, since anybody who wants to do anything not directly traceable to themselves can easily use somebody else's identity. Given a valuable code base, and employees, I'd figure that the danger of having a disgruntled employee is there, and I'd want to use something more traceable than pserver. 90% of security risks are people inside your firewall. Either by accident or design the people you work with will cause the most loss of data or files from your repository (Mostly by accident.) The only real way to protect your repository is by use of secure connections with ssh-tunneling and good backups. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: CVS Security Issues
On 12/18/03 14:26:26, Derek Robert Price wrote: Hash: SHA1 The idea of both is to make it harder to overwrite the CVSROOT/passwd file and gain root. I've actually just commited a fix that will be released soon with 1.11.11 1.12.5 which causes CVS to refuse to continue running if the system user specified in CVSROOT/passwd maps to root, but that doesn't stop anyone with write access to the CVSROOT/passwd file from assuming any other UID they'd like. I posted a patch long ago that did just this for pserver connections. If the mapped name correlates to root (uid 0) then access is denied. Go for it. -- Mike Sutton SAIC Division 397 (937) 431-2273 FAX ext. 2297 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Preventing users from Tagging files
Thanks. Everyone has been very helpful.
You hit the nail on the head.
Adding tags is quite safe, it is the removal of a tag that messes up our repository
structure. We do back things up nightly, but its a huge waste of time recovering from
the backups when a tagging mistake occurs.
I've tried out a modified version of the script on my test cvs server and it works
great. I'll move it on over to production next week.
Thanks for the help.
--Mike
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:41:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Preventing users from Tagging files
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Kaz Kylheku wrote:brbr On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Mike wrote:br
br I am aware that I can use the unix file system permissions to preventbr
developers from checking in files into CVS. But is there a way to preventbr br
In addition, you can use the commitinfo scripting mechanism to stop commitsbr for
just about any criteria: bad code formatting, missing bug numberbr in the log
message, etc.br br people from TAGGING files [or retagging] while still
letting them checkinbr those same files? Or am I just asking a stupid
question?br br You can implement your custom restrictions in a script specified
in br the taginfo administrative file. The taginfo script could check thebr
user identity and reject the operation if that identity is blacklisted.br br
(But really, if you can't trust some developers to tag properly, howbr can you
trust them to commit anything? Learning a tagging system andbr sticking to it is
far less complex than all the things you have to dobr to become a competent
software developer. :)brbrbrTagging is not really the issue, it is deleting tags
that is. And once youbrhave deleted a tag, it is gone. I have always thought this
was a weaknessbrof CVS. History of all commits are retained, even deleting a file
from thebrrepository really does not delete the ,v file, the file is just moved
intobrthe attic. But when you delete a tag, there is no history you can
revertbrfrom, besides your last repository backup. Even competent developersbrcan
accidentally delete something they did not mean to. Everyonebrcan be confused from
time to time. This is a strong argument for havingbrgood and frequent backups of
the CVS repository, in lieu of somebrother home grown tag backup
mechanism.brbrAt work, we prevent everyone from deleting tags, except one user,
brcvsadmin. This way, if there is a tag delete snafu, we know who didbrit. There
is our implementation; YMMV. You could easily make this bra more generic
implementation, and lookup the username from a file ofbrauthorized
users.brbrtaginfo entry:brALL $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/tag.sh
${USER}brbrbrtag.sh:br#!/bin/shbr# Everyone can addbr$brif [ $3 =
add ]; thenbrexit 0brfibrbr# cvsadmin can do
everythingbr#bruser=`whoami`brif [ $user = cvsadmin ]; thenbrexit
0brfibrbr# Nothing else is allowed.br#brecho $@ $4/tag.logbrexit
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Preventing users from Tagging files
Hi, We use CVS and WinCVS for our source control. Our dev team is pretty small and, thus, every developer has checkin access to our repository. However, we repeatably have a select few developers improperly retagging files and 'corrupting' our repository setup. I am aware that I can use the unix file system permissions to prevent developers from checking in files into CVS. But is there a way to prevent people from TAGGING files [or retagging] while still letting them checkin those same files? Or am I just asking a stupid question? I am not a CVS expert in any way, so any help is appreciated. Thanks. --Mike ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: cvs ext (ssh), but no shell access..
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wim Bertels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Houdi, Its a remote clients/server setup, cvs is up and running, but by using the ext method users automatically gain shell access to the cvs server, this in NOT intended, how do you solve this. (i need to use ssh because i have to use pam_ldap to authenticate the cvs-users) I don't worry about it. Make sure nothing but CVS is on the machine, and users won't have access to anything they don't already have access to. No additional risk. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
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Sorry to trouble you with this question, but I hope some of you gurus already know the answer. When I use the following command I get every file listed in the module regardless of whether or not I changed them, which is bad, cvs log -b -d 2003-03-18 02:40 -wrjocham jboss-3.0.6_tomcat-4.1.18 When I add the -S option I only get the files I modified listed, which is good. However, I also only get those in the root directory of the module (i.e. not in the subdirectories), which is bad. cvs log -b -d 2003-03-18 02:40 -S -wrjocham jboss-3.0.6_tomcat-4.1.18 Any ideas how I can list just the files I changed after a certain date for all the subdirectories (recursive) of the module? Thanks, Ralph *** I do it like this. cvs -Q status | grep 'Status: L' This give me a list of Locally Modified files. I cd up or down the source tree as far as I like. I realize that does not address your dates. That is not a problem for me as I typically have maybe 4 or 5 modified files out of several hundred. Then I commit them or abandon them before things get too out of hand :-) One can obviously grep on all sorts of things N, instead of L gets you files that others have changed. There are probably other ways as well. mw- ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: normalizing files and old revisions
Sorry if this is a duplicate. My sendmail update didn't go as smooth as I'd thought. :-/ In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andreas Klauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The repository already contains files which use tabs, CRLF, et cetera. Corresponding diffs to old revisions already contain loads of unnecessary whitespace changes. I'd like to get rid of these diffs, to make comparisons between never revisions (which use filter) and older revisions (which didn't have the filter) possible without getting all this whitespace changes junk. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:25am]~(501) cvs diff --help -w --ignore-all-space Ignore all white space. -b --ignore-space-change Ignore changes in the amount of white space. -B --ignore-blank-lines Ignore changes whose lines are all blank. I suspect those options should provide you with enough control to avoid the necessity of those changes. As an SCM person, I look upon a change such as this with agast. It's equivalent to outdating a version of a file that has a bug in it. You simply don't do that! mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: normalizing files and old revisions
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andreas Klauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, to my main problem: The repository already contains files which use tabs, CRLF, et cetera. Corresponding diffs to old revisions already contain loads of unnecessary whitespace changes. I'd like to get rid of these diffs, to make comparisons between never revisions (which use filter) and older revisions (which didn't have the filter) possible without getting all this whitespace changes junk. cvs diff --help -w --ignore-all-space Ignore all white space. -b --ignore-space-change Ignore changes in the amount of white space. -B --ignore-blank-lines Ignore changes whose lines are all blank. -I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE Ignore changes whose lines all match RE. Those options may use enough to accomplish your goals for the history. One thing I strongly feel about history is, it should never lie. That's how they were checked in. I may not like them, but I'll leave them be. It's like removing old versions that checked in bugs. Just something you don't do. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Mysterious Conflict
Greetings all, I'm perplexed by the report of a conflict in a file. I've checked out my entire tree, sticky on a module tag (build-2_4_0.) When I then query status, it shows that one file (out of about 800 files in 500 folders) is not up-to-date. When I try to update it (keeping the sticky tag) CVS indicates that a conflict is preventing update of that file. So, I deleted the file, and updated that folder. The file was restored, but the anomaly appears again: the output of query update shows that this file needs updating, but the update command complains of a conflict. I've appended the console output, and some log info of the file in question. Can anyone shed some light on this mystery for me? Many thanks, Mike A. I just did an update. Then I follow it with a query update, which shows that one java file needs to be updated: cvs -n update -P (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\) cvs server: Updating . cvs server: Updating APweb cvs server: Updating APweb/WEB-INF ... [Bunch of lines deleted] cvs server: Updating com/nextnetwireless/exp/message/basemessages ... [Bunch of lines deleted] cvs server: Updating web/WEB-INF/lib U com/nextnetwireless/exp/message/basemessages/CPERegistrationMessage.java *CVS exited normally with code 0* Now this confuses me; why does the previous command show the file needs to be updated, but the following status command shows it's up-to-date? cvs status CpeRegistrationMessage.java (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\message\baseme ssages\) === File: CpeRegistrationMessage.java Status: Up-to-date Working revision:1.11 Repository revision: 1.11 /usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/message/basemessag es/CPERegistrationMessage.java,v Sticky Tag: build-2_4_0 (revision: 1.11) Sticky Date: (none) Sticky Options: (none) *CVS exited normally with code 0* And why does the individual query update here show that the file is OK... cvs -n update CpeRegistrationMessage.java (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\message\baseme ssages\) *CVS exited normally with code 0* but the query update on the folder it's in shows it's out of date? cvs -n update -P (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\message\baseme ssages\) cvs server: Updating . U CPERegistrationMessage.java *CVS exited normally with code 0* Well, without understanding the problem, I try to update the folder, but it complains: cvs update -P (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\message\baseme ssages\) cvs server: Updating . cvs update: move away ./CPERegistrationMessage.java; it is in the way C CPERegistrationMessage.java *CVS exited normally with code 1* So I delete the file, and update the folder, which gets the correct revision of the file: cvs update CpeRegistrationMessage.java (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\message\baseme ssages\) U CpeRegistrationMessage.java *CVS exited normally with code 0* But, as the next output shows, a query update on the folder still indicates that the file needs to be updated: cvs -n update -P (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\message\baseme ssages\) cvs server: Updating . U CPERegistrationMessage.java *CVS exited normally with code 0* And yet CVS again refuses to update it: cvs update -P (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\message\baseme ssages\) cvs server: Updating . cvs update: move away ./CPERegistrationMessage.java; it is in the way C CPERegistrationMessage.java *CVS exited normally with code 1* For the record, here's some of the file log, showing that the revision I expected is the one that was checked out (rev 1.11): cvs log CpeRegistrationMessage.java (in directory C:\nn\expedience-2.4.0\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\message\baseme ssages\) *CVS exited normally with code 0* Rcs file : '/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/message/basemessa ges/CPERegistrationMessage.java,v' Working file : 'CpeRegistrationMessage.java' Head revision : 1.15 Branch revision : Locks : strict Access : Symbolic names : 1.14 : 'build-2_5_2' 1.13 : 'build-2_5_1' 1.13 : 'build-2_5_0' 1.11 : 'build-2_4_1' 1.11 : 'build-2_4_0' 1.10 : 'build-2_3_1' 1.10 : 'build-2_3_0' 1.8 : 'build-220' 1.8 : 'build-216' 1.8 : 'build-214' 1.7 : 'build
RESEND Re: Strange behaviour with export
Hi: I sent this a week ago with no response. I'm a newbie to the list and not sure how to interpret silence. I saw a couple of resends that got response, so I figured waiting a week would be a good amount of time to wait. Any input would be much appreciated. Thanks. Mike Mike Holloway wrote: Hi: I'm using cvs v1.11.5 and I've noticed some odd behaviour. If I execute the incantation: cvs export -D now -d . a/b/somefile on a local repository, I get the expected version of somefile in the directory I executed from. However, if I have CVS_RSH=ssh and CVSROOT set to point at the exact same repository, but prefixed with :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: and work from another machine, the above incantation fails with: [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory. If I replace the . with a new directory name, it works fine, as does a checkout. I found something about a bug close to this at http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2001-05/msg00040.html but I'm not using pserver and I was under the impression that export did not ever create the CVS admin directory, so I'm a bit stumped. Can someone explain what could be happening, if its a bug, and, if so, is it fixed in a later version or still outstanding. Thanks in advance for any insight provided.. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Followup Question Re: RESEND Re: Strange behaviour with export
Hi Mark: Thanks. I was able to determine that. What I don't understand is why it won't seem to export to the current working directory in the remote case, but does it just fine on local. If it's a feature I'ld like to understand why? Mark D. Baushke wrote: Mike Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi: I sent this a week ago with no response. I'm a newbie to the list and not sure how to interpret silence. I saw a couple of resends that got response, so I figured waiting a week would be a good amount of time to wait. Any input would be much appreciated. Thanks. Mike You need to use a directory other than . for the export: cvs export -D now -d somedir a/b/somefile will work with cvs 1.11.6 -- Mark Mike Holloway wrote: Hi: I'm using cvs v1.11.5 and I've noticed some odd behaviour. If I execute the incantation: cvs export -D now -d . a/b/somefile on a local repository, I get the expected version of somefile in the directory I executed from. However, if I have CVS_RSH=ssh and CVSROOT set to point at the exact same repository, but prefixed with :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: and work from another machine, the above incantation fails with: [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory. If I replace the . with a new directory name, it works fine, as does a checkout. I found something about a bug close to this at http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2001-05/msg00040.html but I'm not using pserver and I was under the impression that export did not ever create the CVS admin directory, so I'm a bit stumped. Can someone explain what could be happening, if its a bug, and, if so, is it fixed in a later version or still outstanding. Thanks in advance for any insight provided.. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Strange behaviour with export
Hi: I'm using cvs v1.11.5 and I've noticed some odd behaviour. If I execute the incantation: cvs export -D now -d . a/b/somefile on a local repository, I get the expected version of somefile in the directory I executed from. However, if I have CVS_RSH=ssh and CVSROOT set to point at the exact same repository, but prefixed with :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: and work from another machine, the above incantation fails with: [export aborted]: cannot export into a working directory. If I replace the . with a new directory name, it works fine, as does a checkout. I found something about a bug close to this at http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2001-05/msg00040.html but I'm not using pserver and I was under the impression that export did not ever create the CVS admin directory, so I'm a bit stumped. Can someone explain what could be happening, if its a bug, and, if so, is it fixed in a later version or still outstanding. Thanks in advance for any insight provided.. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Update without merge.
Hello, I would like to be able to update my project without CVS merging anything. It should replaceunedited files with newer ones if they exist. But files which have been edited (by me but not checked in) should be left alone. I often need to hack up a bunch of files in order to run some test. It would be nice to not have to make all these changes again every time I do an update. Is this possible? Thanks. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Sandbox file date unexpected
Greetings, Im confused about the date that W2K shows for a file in my sandbox, after I commit it. I understand that CVS keeps track by UTC, but why doesnt my OS show the current time, local, that the file was last changed? - BTW, this doesnt happen if the file does not have any keywords. For example, I edited and committed a file named LH.java, containing the keyword $Name:$. Note that before the commit, the local timestamp of the file was today, 1:42 PM Central US. After, the OS reports that the time is 12:05 AM tomorrow. Does this seem wrong? Thanks for any help, Mike A. P.S. I used the t option to see what CVS was doing, but Im not familiar enough with CVS to interpret it all. C:\nn\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\lhdir LH.java Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 07D2-040F Directory of C:\nn\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\lh 07/02/2003 01:42p 5,869 LH.java 1 File(s) 5,869 bytes 0 Dir(s) 29,756,522,496 bytes free C:\nn\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\lhcvs -n -t commit -m 'testin' LH.java - main loop with CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/NextNet/SWDEV - Sending file `LH.java' to server S- checkout (/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh/LH.java,v, 1.36, , (function)) - ParseInfo(/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/CVSROOT/commitinfo, expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh, ALL) C:\nn\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\lhcvs -t commit -m 'testin' LH.java - main loop with CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/NextNet/SWDEV - Sending file `LH.java' to server S- checkout (/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh/LH.java,v, 1.36, , (function)) - ParseInfo(/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/CVSROOT/commitinfo, expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh, ALL) - ParseInfo(/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/CVSROOT/verifymsg, expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh, not ALL) Checking in LH.java; /usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh/LH.java,v -- LH.java new revision: 1.37; previous revision: 1.36 S- unlink_file(/tmp/cvszcgTxs) S- checkout (/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh/LH.java,v, 1.36, -ko, /tmp/cvsBjIkcv) done S- rename(/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh/,LH.java,,/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh/LH.java,v) S- unlink_file(/tmp/cvsBjIkcv) S- unlink_file(/tmp/cvsLpgNQx) S- checkout (/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh/LH.java,v, , , (function)) S- checkout (/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh/LH.java,v, , , LH.java) S- chmod(LH.java,100666) S- server_register(LH.java, 1.37, Wed Jul 2 19:05:53 2003, , , , ) S- Register(LH.java, 1.37, Wed Jul 2 19:05:53 2003, , ) S- fopen(/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/CVSROOT/history,a) - rename(.new.LH.java,LH.java) - unlink(CVS/Base/LH.java) - Register(LH.java, 1.37, Thu Jul 3 05:05:54 2003, , ) - ParseInfo(/usr/NextNet/SWDEV/CVSROOT/loginfo, expedience/com/nextnetwireless/exp/lh, ALL) S- rename(CVS/Entries.Backup,CVS/Entries) S- unlink_file(CVS/Entries.Log) - rename(CVS/Entries.Backup,CVS/Entries) - unlink(CVS/Entries.Log) C:\nn\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\lhdir LH.java Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 07D2-040F Directory of C:\nn\expedience\com\nextnetwireless\exp\lh 07/03/2003 12:05a 5,852 LH.java 1 File(s) 5,852 bytes 0 Dir(s) 29,756,522,496 bytes free ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: pserver unrecognized auth error.
--- Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is interesting, that machine is still running. it is a redhat 7.1 machine on our lan with the stock cvs that came with the dist. I know I am reading the file I think I am because there are several roots defined on that machine and they have been added piece meal as we went along. The 1.11.5 machine ia a newer machine redhat 9.0. I looked at the two files yesterday when I sent the response. They are indeed different. The 7.1 machine is in heavy use so I'm not going to fiddle with it right now, but it is currently running with spaces and no '='. Thanks for the tip on the extra -f's mw- mike walster writes: I had some trouble when moving from 1.11 my server args in xinet.d/pserver were -f --allow-root /blah -f --allow-root /blah/blah etc. (note the spaces) That has never been valid syntax, I can't imagine how it worked in 1.11 unless it was some kind of local modification. I found that if I changed to my server args to -f --allow-root=/blah -f --allow-root=/blah/blah that it worked again. I have not had good luck unless I specified -f --allow-root for each dir. You need --allow-root= for each directory, but you only need one -f. Repeating it doesn't make any difference whatsoever. -Larry Jones No one can prove I did that!! -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: pserver unrecognized auth error.
I am using version 1.11.5
I had some trouble when moving from 1.11
my server args in xinet.d/pserver were
-f --allow-root /blah -f --allow-root /blah/blah etc.
(note the spaces)
I kept getting unrecognized auth
I found that if I changed to my server args to
-f --allow-root=/blah -f --allow-root=/blah/blah that it worked again.
I have not had good luck unless I specified -f --allow-root for each dir.
I did not do any further investigation after I got it
working. Also I am no cvs expert but that is what worked for
me. Hope it helps
mw-
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear cvs readers,
I've got this problem. I just download ans set up my new cvs server based
on the cvs-1.12.1 version.
Inside my repository (localized in /var/cvs_repositories/ort) I have set
the CVSROOT/passwd file with :
anonymous:
bobenrieth::cvs
strohl::cvs
where cvs is one of the system user.
I've modified the config file so that the system users could not log in
(SystemAuth=no).
When I try to log in with one the preceding users I got these messages :
$ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs_repositories/ort login
Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/var/cvs_repositories/ort
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from localhost:
/var/cvs_repositories/ort
My cvs xinetd file contains :
service cvspserver
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/cvspserver
}
where cvspserver contains :
args=--allow-root=/var/cvs_repositories/ort /var/cvs_repositories/den
if [ -n $args ]; then
exec /usr/local/cvs-1.12.1/bin/cvs -t -f $args pserver
echo runing cvs with -f $args pserver
else
echo no repository configured in $CONF 12
exit 2
fi
If I try a telnet localhost 2401 I get :
# telnet localhost 2401
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
/var/cvs_repositories/ort
/var/cvs_repositories/den
cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start:
- Lock_Cleanup()
Connection closed by foreign host.
Which seems to tell us that the server is really running !
Any idea
Thanks a lot for your help.
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Re: Using dos2unix on commit???
Ok sorry for the screwed up emails I have been sending around, I might have this one addressed correctly :-) Most of the info here has already been mentioned, a small part that we experienced has been left out. The cygwin cvs client does not fix up the line endings on the commit. At least the version that we are using. We have found the files created on windows with say Gvim when it was launched from windows by default creates dos style line endings. However the same program when launched from cygwin on the same machine creates unix style line endings. The cygwin envinronments are installed with unix style the default for that system. I have not experimented with it otherwise and don't know how it acts. We found that a file saved from a unix environment checked out with cywin and edited with gvim launched from windows then checked in with cygwin has screwed up line endings. This was causing merges to panick on a regular basis which was really ticking off one of our remote developers, who was having difficulty with the cvs paradigm to begin with. We found that files checked out with cygwin and edited with vim from cygwin were ok. Creating a new file on windows with Gvim caused the line ending foul up. Basically we just don't use cvs that comes with cygwin and we don't have any difficulties with any editors. We could get the cvs that comes with cygwin to work fine but one really has to pay attention to what is going on. I develop on linux all the time and on windows only when I am doing something windows specific. The rest my shop is on windows, while I was comfortable with the line ending stuff it caused a great deal of confusion for many of our developers. We really had TWO things going on one was the cvs client the other was what environment we launched various editors from. Excuse the length I hope that this is at least somewhat helpful to someone. mw- --- Andy Kriger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to setup our Unix-based CVS repository to run dos2unix when files are committed, but I'm not having much luck and don't see any solution laid out clearly in the mailing lists. I have a commitinfo file... DEFAULT dos2unix When I commit my Windows text file... ~/webapps cvs ci -m wintext.txt dos2unix: converting file /usr/local/cvsroot/webapps to UNIX format ... dos2unix: problems converting file /usr/local/cvsroot/webapps Reading the CVS docs... The full path to the current source repository is appended to the template, followed by the file names of any files involved in the commit (added, removed, and modified files). So I thought that dos2unix would get the path combined with filename as an argument. Apparently this isn't so. Does anyone have an example of this that does work? thx andy kriger ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Using dos2unix on commit???
One must be carefull about the words one chooses here I did indeed use the term panick spelled with a ck loosley. The files do show up completely different which was causing the developer to panick somewhat. As I recall the instructions for cygwin say to always install as unix line endings. I could be mistaken however. We installed cygwin to use ssh not cvs particulary, that is just something that came up later... mw- --- Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike walster writes: The cygwin envinronments are installed with unix style the default for that system. That is the root of your problem. You should *NEVER* install cygwin with Unix line endings -- if you want a Unix-like system, you know where to find it. Having some of your tools use one line-ending convention and others another is a sure recipe for insanity, catastrophe, or both. We found that a file saved from a unix environment checked out with cywin and edited with gvim launched from windows then checked in with cygwin has screwed up line endings. This was causing merges to panick on a regular basis which was really ticking off one of our remote developers, What do you mean by causing merges to panick? I can see causing the developer to panic since the entire file will be completely different from CVS's perspective, but CVS shouldn't have a problem with it. -Larry Jones Just when I thought this junk was beginning to make sense. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: WinCVS in french
From: Samuel Blanchet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:20 PM I would like to know if WinCVS exist in french ??? Hello, Please send only plain text messages to technical mailing lists. No HTML or Rich Text, please. I had a look at the WinCVS home page at http://wincvs.org and could not tell if there is a French version shipped. I do know, however, that there are many French users of it. I suggest you join the WinCVS mailing list (link is WAY at the bottom of the home page), and ask there. They will know. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: OpenSource CVS-related project Needs Developers!
From: Greg A. Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:41 PM [ On Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 11:00:59 (-0800), Christian Bryant wrote: ] Subject: OpenSource CVS-related project Needs Developers! http://asmai.sourceforge.net/ Please take a look and email [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are interested. We are trying to get the project underway and a version out by the end of the year. Why don't y'all just learn to use Emacs and its PCL-CVS front-end to CVS? blather snipped/ Why don't you just learn to deal with the fact that not everyone is going to develop software the way you do? Seriously. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Files beginning with a minus sign
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Franky Van Liedekerke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wanted to delete the file. Marking the file for deletion was ok, but the commit is not working. The cvs commit command at first complained about this file with unknown option, so I called cvs like this: http://www.cvshome.org/cyclic/cvs/dev-diff-hyphen.txt Someday I should really write that sanity check and resubmit the patch. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: CVS Manual, section 2.9.2
From: Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I use ssh instead of rsh because a) the connection is encrypted b) Authentication can be done on a Private Key / Public Key basis, which I consider much more secure than .rhosts at rsh. When using key authentication (using ssh-keygen and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys) it is not neccessary to type in the password (same as with pserver and login, but more secure for the connection). Don't forget: c) ssh is universally interoperable - rsh is not. There are systems, even OS versions, that do not interopertae over rsh. I have also heard that it's possible to tunnel pserver through ssh or http or https, but I do not know wether that is really possible, even less I know how to configure that. It's possible. I don't have the instructions handy, either. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: Modules and external repository
From: Adam Witney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:19 AM Does anyone know why this error message means? cvs server: existing repository /usr/local/cvsroot does not match /usr/local/cvsroot/bugs/php_dev cvs server: ignoring module php_dev Yes. Your repository is located at /usr/local/cvsroot and you have a module bugs/php_dev in there. To access this module, you must set CVSROOT or -d to point to /usr/local/cvsroot and checkout module bugs/php_dev. It looks like you have your -d/CVSROOT (repository pointer) pointing to /usr/local/cvsroot/bugs/php_dev and are trying to checkout module php_dev. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: Files beginning with a minus sign
From: Franky Van Liedekerke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:07 AM So now the cvs command itself ws happy, but the server complains with: up-to-date check failed for -filename.txt First do `cvs update -filename.txt` and see what that says. My testing found that I could add the file, but not (so far) commit it. You may have an uncomitted file there. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: Removing file with Wincvs not running?!
From: Denis JULIEN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 6:45 AM I'm using WinCvs connected to a pserver cvs running on RH 8.0. I am not able to remove file from a module when I use the WinCvs GUI (remove selected file menu) , it displays an error message saying that the file is tagged and that it cannot to be removed. Nevertheless I can remove it directly working on the cvs server. Any idea on this behavior? If the file is tagged, that means that it has a sticky tag, which in turn means that you are not working on the tip of the branch. `cvs rm` will only remove files at the tip of the branch. This is correct behavior, since removing old revisions would break all builds of the tree starting at the revision removed. What you should do is to select the file and hit the green arrow button to update it. If necessary, hold the shift key down while clicking the green arrow to get the update dialog box. Click the get the clean copy box, then proceed. You will now have the current version of the file, which you can remove and commit. It would probably be a good idea to get clean copies of the entire tree while you're at it. It is bad to have sticky tags and not know why. Communing with the documentation is essential here. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: Files beginning with a minus sign
From: Franky Van Liedekerke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:51 AM The file was already checked out from cvs, so it is commited. Sound logic there. But now I want to delete it, and it seems modifying the repository by hand is the only way to do it ... I found `cvs -q remove ./-filename.txt` did the job nicely. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: Log data for branches
From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:23 PM On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Mike Ayers wrote: Hmmm - not the results I got... cvs server: invalid option -- S Usage: cvs server [-lRhtNb] [-r[revisions]] [-d dates] [-s states] Note who's complaining -- cvs server, not cvs log. Your client may be 1.11.5, but your server must be older. Try cvs version instead of cvs -v; the former prints out the server's CVS version too. Whoops! Missed that. Well, that hangs that (for now), as I have no option to upgrade the server. Hopefully Douglas will get his changes mailed in, or, if not, I can always patch my version. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Log data for branches
I created a test project to illustrate a problem that I am having. I added a file, SwingApplication.java, then branched branch1. I made some changes in SwingApplication.java for both files, then added a new file, SwingApplication2.java, on the main branch. Here's the log output: SNIP C:\mike\wrk\btest\branch1\z1cvs log ? SwingApplication$1.class ? SwingApplication$2.class ? SwingApplication.class cvs server: Logging . RCS file: /export/cvs/personal/mayers/testing123/z1/SwingApplication.java,v Working file: SwingApplication.java head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: branch1: 1.1.0.2 keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 5; selected revisions: 5 description: revision 1.2 date: 2003/03/25 21:15:01; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Says Click Me! now. revision 1.1 date: 2003/03/25 21:10:06; author: mayers; state: Exp; branches: 1.1.2; Initial checkin revision 1.1.2.3 date: 2003/03/25 22:45:07; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Enough space to count to at least 999. revision 1.1.2.2 date: 2003/03/25 22:43:17; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +4 -3 Improved feedback revision 1.1.2.1 date: 2003/03/25 21:19:37; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Button push paradigm = RCS file: /export/cvs/personal/mayers/testing123/z1/SwingApplication2.java,v Working file: SwingApplication2.java head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 2; selected revisions: 2 description: revision 1.2 date: 2003/03/25 22:48:26; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +4 -3 Better label. revision 1.1 date: 2003/03/25 22:30:56; author: mayers; state: Exp; countdown version: initial checkin = /SNIP Looks good. Now, I want to get a log of checkins for files on the branch1 branch: SNIP C:\mike\wrk\btest\branch1\z1cvs log -rbranch1 ? SwingApplication$1.class ? SwingApplication$2.class ? SwingApplication.class cvs server: Logging . RCS file: /export/cvs/personal/mayers/testing123/z1/SwingApplication.java,v Working file: SwingApplication.java head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: branch1: 1.1.0.2 keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 5; selected revisions: 3 description: revision 1.1.2.3 date: 2003/03/25 22:45:07; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Enough space to count to at least 999. revision 1.1.2.2 date: 2003/03/25 22:43:17; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +4 -3 Improved feedback revision 1.1.2.1 date: 2003/03/25 21:19:37; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Button push paradigm = cvs server: warning: no revision `branch1' in `/export/cvs/personal/mayers/testi ng123/z1/SwingApplication2.java,v' RCS file: /export/cvs/personal/mayers/testing123/z1/SwingApplication2.java,v Working file: SwingApplication2.java head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 2; selected revisions: 2 description: revision 1.2 date: 2003/03/25 22:48:26; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +4 -3 Better label. revision 1.1 date: 2003/03/25 22:30:56; author: mayers; state: Exp; countdown version: initial checkin = C:\mike\wrk\btest\branch1\z1 /SNIP Note what happened for SwingApplication2.java - a warning was printed, then all file checkins were displayed. This is the problem. When I run cvs2cl.pl on my branch, I am getting all the checkins on files not on the branch which didn't exist when the branch was created. How can I limit logging to files which exist on a branch? Thanks, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: Log data for branches
From: Douglas Finkle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:32 PM I have been meaning to get this back to Karl Fogel. Actually, you should send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think Karl is the maintainer anymore. I'll get my diffs done as well, in case they want to incorporate them, and maybe I can get my reports out of the box soon! Thanks, /|/|ike P.S. I interpret this to mean that the issue has been raised and addressed in the past, and the resolution was that the behavior will not change, yes? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: CVS Manual, section 2.9.2
From: John Daues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:51 PM In the CVS manual, in section 2.9.2 Connecting with rsh, it says: --- For example, suppose you are the user `mozart' on the local machine `toe.example.com', and the server machine is `faun.example.org'. On faun, put the following line into the file `.rhosts' in `bach''s home directory: toe.example.com mozart Then test that `rsh' is working with rsh -l bach faun.example.org 'echo $PATH' --- Should the 2 occurences of bach be replaced with mozart? (or vice-versa). If not, who is bach? (there's a setup for a joke) I believe that bach would be the username that you would use on faun.example.org. Note the test command: SNIP rsh -l bach faun.example.org 'echo $PATH' /SNIP You probably should not learn rsh from a CVS manual. Read the rsh manual page on the system to which you will be connecting. Better yet, visit http://openssh.org/manual.html and read up on ssh, which is a more secure and less problematic remote connection method. Of course, you may not be able to use this, but if you can, it is the better way to fly. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: Log data for branches
From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:56 PM In 1.11.5, on that file, cvs log -rbranch1 would have suppressed the revisions, though it would still have printed the header information. The new(ish?) -S option would have suppressed the header as well, leaving only the warning. Hmmm - not the results I got... =SNIPPAGE BELOW=8- C:\mike\wrk\btest\branch1\z1\ftp\CVS\cvs-1.11.5\cvs -v Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.5 (client) Copyright (c) 1989-2002 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn, Jeff Polk, and other authors CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit. Specify the --help option for further information about CVS C:\mike\wrk\btest\branch1\z1\ftp\CVS\cvs-1.11.5\cvs log -rbranch1 ? SwingApplication$1.class ? SwingApplication$2.class ? SwingApplication.class ? SwingApplication3$1.class ? SwingApplication3.class ? SwingApplication3.java ? c1.txt cvs server: Logging . RCS file: /export/cvs/personal/mayers/testing123/z1/SwingApplication.java,v Working file: SwingApplication.java head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: branch1: 1.1.0.2 keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 5; selected revisions: 3 description: revision 1.1.2.3 date: 2003/03/25 22:45:07; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Enough space to count to at least 999. revision 1.1.2.2 date: 2003/03/25 22:43:17; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +4 -3 Improved feedback revision 1.1.2.1 date: 2003/03/25 21:19:37; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Button push paradigm = cvs server: warning: no revision `branch1' in `/export/cvs/personal/mayers/testi ng123/z1/SwingApplication2.java,v' RCS file: /export/cvs/personal/mayers/testing123/z1/SwingApplication2.java,v Working file: SwingApplication2.java head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 2; selected revisions: 2 description: revision 1.2 date: 2003/03/25 22:48:26; author: mayers; state: Exp; lines: +4 -3 Better label. revision 1.1 date: 2003/03/25 22:30:56; author: mayers; state: Exp; countdown version: initial checkin = C:\mike\wrk\btest\branch1\z1\ftp\CVS\cvs-1.11.5\cvs log -rbranch1 -S ? SwingApplication$1.class ? SwingApplication$2.class ? SwingApplication.class ? SwingApplication3$1.class ? SwingApplication3.class ? SwingApplication3.java ? c1.txt cvs server: invalid option -- S Usage: cvs server [-lRhtNb] [-r[revisions]] [-d dates] [-s states] [-w[logins]] [files...] -l Local directory only, no recursion. -R Only print name of RCS file. -h Only print header. -t Only print header and descriptive text. -N Do not list tags. -b Only list revisions on the default branch. -r[revisions] Specify revision(s)s to list. rev1:rev2 Between rev1 and rev2, including rev1 and rev2. rev1::rev2 Between rev1 and rev2, excluding rev1 and rev2. rev:rev and following revisions on the same branch. rev:: After rev on the same branch. :revrev and previous revisions on the same branch. ::rev Before rev on the same branch. rev Just rev. branch All revisions on the branch. branch. The last revision on the branch. -d datesSpecify dates (D1D2 for range, D for latest before). -s states Only list revisions with specified states. -w[logins] Only list revisions checked in by specified logins. (Specify the --help global option for a list of other help options) C:\mike\wrk\btest\branch1\z1 ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Commit inconsistency: Up-to-date check did not fail though itshould have !
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Reinstein, Shlomo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - User B commits his changes to p, without first updating his working copy. Against all expectations, user B succeeds to commit even though his working copy is not up to date, leading to an unstable latest version of the project in the repository. Hmm... originally I was wondering, How would this create an unstable latest version? The only scenario I can think of is where user B starts making use of a function that user A has changed/removed, and that function had never been used in that file before. In any other case, the file that user B was changing would have to have been modified by user A. Correct? As a side note, this state is easily achieved by using Perforce as well. And, I would imagine, any number of other systems. To be honest, this is the first time I've ever heard of CVS working in this way. But then, 99% of my cvs usage is using client/server or single user using a single check out. Actually, I can't even find it in the documentation. Could someone point out to me where it says that CVS will complain about an Up-to-date check for files not being checked in? From my point of view, complaining about unchanged files is a bug, not an undocumented feature. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: FW: Commit inconsistency: Up-to-date check did not fail thoughit should have !
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Siegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Reinstein, Shlomo wrote: I just wonder how come this does not cause problems in the development of large projects that are kept in CVS. So do I! Probably because, in most cases, it simply doesn't matter, and the speed improvement you get it worth the minor inconvenience. As I posted before, at least one other CM system, namely Perforce, acts in a similar manner. And there are several large systems under P4 control, including Open Source ones (Perl, for instance). I imagine that the protocol will work either way, so if it bothers enough people, make it a run time configuration option. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Post taginfo script
Dan, I have been creating a post tag trigger for CVS. I'm very close to finishing and I will post a patch to the info-cvs list. On 02/24/03 10:28:19, Dan Peterson wrote: A user has asked the following question (see below). I don't believe there's a way to do what he wants, but thought I'd check to make sure. I was trying to use tag info to report changes to a particular tag and what files it changes. It works well except for the fact that it reinvokes the script for every single directory that it recurses. This as you can imagine would generate a lot of e-mails on a big directory tree structure. Do you know of a way to accomplish this same task with only one invocation. For example on the verifymsg, I wanted to also find out what files were commited so I was able to just change the commitinfo to cache a file of changes that were being commited for a user and then since verifymsg get's invoked last it would use that cached file and send out an e-mail. Is there anything that can be done like this for taginfo maybe a file that will always get invoked last and only once? Any help would greatly be appreciated. -- Mike Sutton | public class SAIC | software_failure : management_failure Beavercreek, OH | Suttonm at saic . com| These are MY opinions, not SAIC's ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Bug Tracking
Jenn Vesperman wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 01:33, Zieg, Mark wrote: CVS's support for bug tracking is poor to nonexistent and many people have commented on it and requested better support. It already exists. http://www.bugzilla.org/docs216/html/integration.html snip CVS integration is best accomplished, at this point, using the Bugzilla Email Gateway. Follow the instructions in this Guide for enabling Bugzilla e-mail integration. snip/ An incomplete perusal of the guide finds information on configuring Bugzilla to send emails, but not to receive them. Pointer, please? TiA, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Storing static code
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WE have an existing cvs setup where we would like to hold the original code that the vendor has sent out - before we mod'd it - so we can do diffs against the original code (assume we originally imported code that had already been mod'd) to find out what has changed. This scenario is precisely why CVS was invented. In the manual, look up stuff on vendor branches for recommended procedures. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: How to tell WinCvs where is Python?
Richard Uhlmann wrote: Hi, I just installed WinCvs13b10.zip. When I invoked the program the first time it searches for tcl and python For future questions regarding WinCVS, you will get best results posting to the cvsgui mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). After this I installed: tcl823.exe and Python-2.3a1.exe ok this is an alpha release but also with the official version 2.2 NOT in Administrator mode (dlls are locally) Hmmm - I don't know if nonlocal Python installations are supported. Best check the docs available at the cvsgui site (now http://wincvs.org). If you are installing the latest Python, you do not need to install tcl, unless you wish to write tcl scripts. everytime I invoke WinCvs I get the ErrorMessage: WinCvs could not find Python 2.1 ... My Operating System is Windows NT 4.0 Is the Python executable in your path? HTH, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Help please with problem with rtag
Lynch, Harold wrote: The problem I am seeing is that very infrequently the rtag command seems to miss a file when I tag (either a tag or a branch tag) a module in my repository. These doesn't seem to be a pattern to the file missed (both text and binary files have been missed). The version of cvs is 1.10.8 (both clients and server). The repository is on a solaris 8 box. I have never seen or heard of such a problem. However, I can't recall the last time I heard of someone using a version as old as you are, either. The stock response is to recommend that you upgrade to the most recent version, 1.11.4. You would get much better help here if you saw your problem on that version, which you probably won't. Good luck, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: CVS case problem
Zanabria, Moises wrote: I've a problem, I have a lot of files with the same name but with different case in the same directory, since I working on UNIX there is not a problem, but now when I tried to check out on NT this return a Conflict and this is fine because cvs try to check out 2 files with the same name but with different content. Yes. You can't do this. There is no workaround. You must either rename some files, abandon Windows, or make a workaround in your own process. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: CVSROOT/passwd problems.
Gagneet Singh wrote: I have been using the SystemAuth=yes method to authenticate users for CVS Server. (available in the CVSROOT/config file). The System I am using is Red Hat 8 with cvs-1.11.2. The repository is in /cvs directory. The permissions for this are ug+rwx. It belongs to root user and cvs group. You are not using CVS - you are using CVSNT (http://www.cvs.org). They have a mailing list. You should have better chances if you post your problem there. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: GUI client that checks out 1 file?
Phil R Lawrence wrote: mehul choube wrote: Does anyone know how to check out just 1 file (as opposed to a whole directory) in WinCVS, Eclipse, or some other client? cvs checkout cvsClient/client.c Sorry, I've been directed to find a gui client that allows this. Do you know of any? You can do this in WinCVS. In the checkout dialog, where it says Module name and path on the server, just type in the full path to the file - e.g., /module/name/path/to/phils/file.txt. /|/|ike P.S. WinCVS is also scriptable via Tcl and/or Python, so it can probably do anything you desire, provided you have the resources to script it. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Problem: CVS RPM package relocation incomplete
Hi Martin, I think you'll have better results pursuing this in an RPM forum. The problem as you describe it seems to be a rather generic one, and I imagine that the solution, if there is one, is well known amongst RPM experts. Sorry, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Security setup
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: Let me make sure of this. You're saying that even when running only over ssh, in a jail, with a login shell of cvs, someone can still get shell access? They can't actually get an interactive shell, but unless you criple CVS, they can execute arbitrary commands, which is equivalent. So call me Tanya, hand me a crowbar, and point to the kneecaps! Are we talking crippling by configuration here - disallowing commit scripts and the like? That would be fine, since we want nothing but checkout, checkin, and accounting. Or will I need to do the dirty work inside the codebase, which would be less appealing? TiA, ___ | anya ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: cvs server:Up-to-date check failed for 'team/test/MyTest.java'
Okay, I'm just curious here, but why is your character encoding set to Japanese? HALESHAPPA SATHEESHA wrote: Hi, Could some body help to know what this problem is. Am working on CVS 1.11.3.1 installed on win2k and connecting from IBM's WSAD. There is no CVS 1.11.3.1 - current version is 1.11.2, with 1.11.3 impending. Please double check the version, and if you have reported it correctly, could please you cut-and-paste the version output? I vaguely recall someone else reporting this version before. I got the following error while releasing the modified java file into the stream. -- This was the initial dialog window shown with the message You have changes that conflict with the server. Release those changes?. I clicked Yes and continued and then got the following error. I'm a little confused here. Vanilla CVS does not have messageboxes. What platform is this? The CVS repository reported problem.(dialog window). When i see the details, this was the message. cvs server:Up-to-date check failed for 'team/test/MyTest.java' cvs[server aborted]:correct above errors first. --- The up-to-date check failure means that the file has been checked in by someone else while you were working on it. Run `cvs update` to get the merge and possible conflict (perhaps the dialog box means conflict?) HTH, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname problem
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: I do not think it is possible to use WinCVS and Cygwin compiled CVS on the same sandbox. Cygwin CVS expects ALL files to be in Unix mode. While WinCVS can check out sandbox files with Unix line endings, it should still expect the CVS/* files to use Windows line endings. You must choose one tool or the other. I believe it is possible, provided you configure Cygwin to use DOS line endings when you install CVS. (There may be a way to specify DOS line endings at run-time, too; I don't know a whole lot about Cygwin). Conversely, WinCVS comes with a command-line CVS; you can just use it directly (by adding the WinCVS directory to your PATH) rather than using the Cygwin version. You are thinking of text mode mounts. That has been mentioned a few times here, as have a few other prospects for cooperative behavior, but I have never seen a report of anyone successfully configuring a system in which Cygwin CVS and a Windows style CVS were able to work on the same repository. Until we do get confirmation (and instructions), I think it is best to say that it hasn't been done and possibly can't be done. I just want people to understand that, if they want to try to make it happen, they're in for a very bumpy ride. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Security setup
Here's a bit of a challenge for the list. We need to set up a CVS repository on a Linux server such that the users can't modify the files, except through proper CVS operations. The catch? They are currently permitted to log into the server. Is there a way to seal off the repository without banning them from logging in? It has not been said that there is no option to prevent login, but if I can avoid that option, it would be preferrable. Suggestions? Thanks, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname problem
Larry Jones wrote: I don't think so -- I'm talking about when you install Cygwin stuff, on the Select Root Install Directory screen, there's a Default Text File Type check-box that allows you to select DOS or Unix. Provided you select DOS, the Cygwin cvs interoperates just fine with WinCVS. Whoa, that's new! You sound like you've verified this, yes? /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Security setup
Larry Jones wrote: Once you're connected to a pserver, it's a fairly simple process to get it to execute arbitrary commands for you; giving someone pserver access is equivalent to giving them shell access. s/pserver/server/g The above applies to *any* kind of client/server mode, not just pserver. Let me make sure of this. You're saying that even when running only over ssh, in a jail, with a login shell of cvs, someone can still get shell access? If I am misunderstanding, please clarify. Thanks, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Security setup
Larry Jones wrote: Rewrite CVS? Seriously, as I've said many times before, CVS was designed to facilitate cooperative work, it was *not* designed to enforce security in any way, shape, or form. Any attempt to make it do so is doomed to fail. I'm not quite sure if this changes anything, but I don't need CVS to be a security application, just a securable one. Specifically, I want integrity and accountability. I don't care what happens in the repository, so long as we can be sure of who did what. I am aware that this requires security, I was just expecting the security to be handled external to CVS (chroot, ssh, etc.). Does this improve the picture for me? Thanks, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Where is diff getting its path?
Mark Scoville wrote: Good point. Initially I could only get WinCvs to work. I checked in several files, and now that I have the CLI working, I would like to commit changes that I have recently made. However, the LF problem haunts me. If I do a CLI diff on the file now, every single line is considered different. I think that if I were to check it in using WinCvs that may not be the case - although now that I think of it, if I get WinCvs to think LF like the CLI, I will likely have the same problem. Sigh! You will suffer and suffer. Then you'll suffer some more. Eventually, driven to madness by frustration, you will punt either WinCVS or Cygwin CVS and swear to use one and only one line end convention. Then, sadder but wiser, with no more line ending problems to haunt you, you will find some other inadvisable course to chart, and your life will remain interesting. That's how it went for me, anyway... /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname problem
Mark Scoville wrote: I removed the directories and did a new checkout on the command line (bash) and that did the trick! Thanks. Now WinCvs is confused. What is the trick in WinCvs to teach it better (UNIX - CR/LF) manners? I did uninstall it and reinstalled it hoping it would pick up the environment more intelligently, but it looks like it retained its previous settings. I do not think it is possible to use WinCVS and Cygwin compiled CVS on the same sandbox. Cygwin CVS expects ALL files to be in Unix mode. While WinCVS can check out sandbox files with Unix line endings, it should still expect the CVS/* files to use Windows line endings. You must choose one tool or the other. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: binaries
Phil R Lawrence wrote: Yes, I do want multi-platform clients. So even though my -ko flag for import will remove the keyword expansion problem, the windows clients will attempt newline conversins on my binaries, and that would mess them up? Yes. So would the Mac clients. You want to add all binary files with -k b to prevent this. This and the keyword expansion are the only issues that I know of with binary files. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: check-out via command line
Michael wrote: I have a problem with Wincvs checking out via command line: All files are stored in dos-format (CRLF at end of line)so I tried to use the -kb option to get no additional CR at the end of line. But Wincvs checks out every file now as binary now. In the GUI-version it is possible to enable the option checkout text files with the Unix LF and it works. Is this option available via command line? Or is there a different solution? please help! I don't know the answer to this. WinCVS uses the CVSNT client, not the raw CVS client for Windows, and does not include documentation for it. I suggest you got to http://wincvs.org and use their mailing list (link is at the very bottom of the page) for more help. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Using CVS to maintain XML
Wayne Johnson wrote: We're using InstallAnywhere5. One of the features of IA5 is that the builder control file is in XML. We were sort of hoping that we could use CVS to manage these files. It works fine until we attempt merges. The problem is that in order for CVS to properly merge the file, there needs to be some structure to the file. In most source, this is simply due to the fact that programmers just don't go moving functions around. In XML, you can rearrange the contents of an XML object without affecting the meaning. Ummm - yes and no. Specifically, you can rearrange the tags within a level, but must strictly maintain all containment. My idea is to sort the IA5 XML before doing any CVS commands on it, thus brining order to the chaos. I wouldn't call this a sort. I think the term canonicalize would better fit what you wish to do. This also implies that you would work from the DTD or schema for the XML in question, and sort the tags at each level into the order they appear in that schema or DTD. Really, XML tools should do this anyway to be good citizens, even though it is not strictly required. Anyone know a good way to manage XML in CVS? Is there a program that will sort an XML file? To make sure that similar tags always appear in the same order? Am I just dreaming? Please note that this is not an issue of managing XML in CVS per se. XML files work fine in CVS. However, because the differences between two XML files as viewed by an XML parser are potentially a small subset the textual changes to that file, the diffs as reported by CVS may not be the differences that you are interested in. Because of this, I would suggest that, rather than build a preprocessing utility to be used prior to checkin, you should construct an XML diff program that takes two XML files and reports the XML difference, which is what interests you. This way, you would check in the machine generated XML as is (always a good idea for machine generated files), and diff them. I would expect that you could find an XML diff program already written. I am not sure how, or if, it could be integrated into CVS. HTH, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: List files of a Tag
Fabian Cenedese wrote: There are Win32 ports of almost all Unix tools, so you should be able to do the Unix method quite well on Windows too. Maybe without the special redirecting stuff. Better still, write a script in one of the better free scripting languages - Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Python - take your pick. These languages usually include OS transparent file handling utilities that will permit you to write portable scripts. They are also *much* easier to learn, use, and keep fresh on than shell tools. You should not shell script with Cygwin unless you are familiar with both shell scripting and the line ending problem, as you will need to be aware of your line endings at all times. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: update -l -r brnch dir doesn't seem to do anything
CHARLES HART, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK wrote: I've used CVS for a bit over 24 hours, having used ClearCase for the past 16 years, and I am trying to get a handle on how NOT to get a whole directory dumped into my work area. We have a directory with approximately 1,500 source files in it. (No unfortunat ely, I can't make a smaller directory, since this is only one of 475 directorie s I have to worry about). I have figured out that I can start with an empty work area and say $ cvs update -r brnch bmf/foo.x and just get one file moved into the directory. But, if I start with an empty work area and I want to create a new file in the big directory, I can't get CVS to give me an empty place to work. (At least the cvs add command refuses to work in anything other than a work directory blessed by CVS). I figured out that I can do an mkdir and cvs add, and cvs correctly notices that the new directory is redundant, but shouldn't update -l -r brnch dir work too? -CTH You understand the problem correctly. To get your directory blessed, just check out a single file in it - use `cvs update -r brnch bmf/foo.x`, then delete foo.x, make your file (in the bmf directory), and check it in. While updating foo.x, CVS should create all the CVS/* files it needs to do the add. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Binary update and merge problem
Walter Ghijsen wrote: Hi, I'm running into problems with merging binary files from one branch into another. SNIP/ Does anyone have any suggestions? Yes. Don't merge binary files. CVS knows how to merge only text files. Binary files you must handle on your own. What you probably want to do is replace the main trunk version of the file with any changed files on the developer branch, but you are the expert there. You may need to devise a script for this. The handling of binary files in CVS is very limited. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Bug tracking.
Steven Buroff wrote: I would like to vote for this feature too. This open source. Only patches count as votes. CVS's support for bug tracking is poor to nonexistent and many people have commented on it and requested better support. Tags don't really do it. That's because CVS is not a bug tracking tool. It's an archive system. Only an archive system. If you want to do more than just archiving, you must find tools that do those other things and/or integrate them yourself. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but too many people just don't seem to grasp this. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Problem with WinCVS
Please send only plain text messages to technical mailing lists. Thanks. David Gagnon wrote: Hello, I am a new to CVS and I need some help: We have a CVS server on a Mac OSX computer and it's work well with MacCVS Pro client on a remote Macintosh. All the things seem to be ok for the MacCVS client. But now, I am trying to use WinCVS on Windows XP and I have some problem. Any function return a message like Cannot fdopen 3296608 for write: No such file or directory. Message like does not help much. Message is would be much better. Can you cut-and-paste the exact output? If not, please transcribe faithfully. Thanks. Note that I am using WinCVS1.3b5 with Python 2.2.2. Current is WinCVS 1.3b10. Always upgrade to the latest when you haven't gotten something to work yet. CVS GUI is now found at http://www.wincvs.org. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Commit Problem
Please send only plain text messages to technical mailing lists. Thanks. Bill Smith wrote: Below is a message I posted to the tortoise cvs mailing list. Additionally, I tried doing a cvs commit with cygwin cvs, I get /CVSROOTccess /var/cvs No such file or directory This is not a cut-and-paste of the output. Please send a cut-and-paste of the output, or reproduce the output faithfully. Approximate error messages do not help. I know there is some inconsistency between the cvs cygwin cvs client and the cvsnt client but searching, it's not clear to me what those inconsistencies are. Can anyone clarify them? If you find this out, please tell us. :-) (Other than the line ending issue, that is). - I have a strange one here. I have a group of jpg images that I'm adding to a repository. When I do a cvs add, all the images add fine. When I try and commit, I get the error below for certain files. (I only see the message below if I commit them one at a time, when in a group, I get some generic message). What is weird is that in some cases, if I open the image in an editor and resave it (change jpg params) and try and commit, it will work. This could be a coincidence. What params are you changing? Opening a JPEG file in an editor and resaving it should change nothing. Additional Info: TortoiseCVS version 1.2.1 client os: Windows XP Home server os: Redhat 7.2 server ssh version: OpenSSH_3.1p1 Server CVS version? Client/server protocol? :ext: with ssh is implied, but you give an OpenSSH version, and TortoiseCVS only works with PLINK.EXE, which does not show an OpenSSH version. Any ideas? Honestly, I don't think this is a TortoiseCVS problem, but instead a generic cvs problem, but I was hoping someone on this list might have some ideas. I'm also gonna post this on the cvs list. *cough* Or generic pilot error? Just make sure you double check your setup. In C:\Projects\webv3: C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe commit -m src/html/gallery/images/sunfun/009_6a.jpg CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs cvs commit: warning: unrecognized response `FATAL ERROR: Server sent disconnect message: ' from cvs server cvs commit: warning: unrecognized response `Corrupted check bytes on input. ' from cvs server cvs [commit aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) Check bytes? Smells like client/server incompatibility to me. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Commit Problem
Bill Smith wrote: - Original Message - From: Mike Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, yes it is a cut-and-paste, here it is again including the command line Here s the entire trace with the -t option $ cvs -t commit cvs commit: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs cvs commit: Examining . - Starting server: ssh www.copperleaf.org -l bsmith cvs server [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: /CVSROOTccess /var/cvs No such file or directory Hmmm... this looks like the string /CVSROOT overlaid on the string Cannot access /var/cvs. This would happen if, say, you were using Unix style formattting... You mentioned Cygwin earlier. Have you used Cygwin to work in this sandbox that you are using TortoiseCVS in? FYI, the cygwin cvs version is $ cvs -v Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server) Grandma! What params are you changing? Opening a JPEG file in an editor and resaving it should change nothing. I played with changing the compression level of the jpg using the gimp. cvs SHOULDN'T care anyway. It's a Ah - that's not a parameter - you recompressed the image. CVS shouldn't care, yes, but I, trying to understand the problem, do. :-) Additional Info: TortoiseCVS version 1.2.1 client os: Windows XP Home server os: Redhat 7.2 server ssh version: OpenSSH_3.1p1 Server CVS version? server cvs version is 1.11.1p1 Old Aunt Ethel! Client/server protocol? :ext: with ssh is implied, but you give an OpenSSH version, and TortoiseCVS only works with PLINK.EXE, which does not show an OpenSSH version. On the client side, TortoiseCVS is using plink which is connecting to sshd on the server side. Are you certain of this? How do you know? This has worked successfully with all the other files. To add some more detail, it is only a handful of files (~12 out of 100) all jpgs that are acting up. The images all vary in size, but none exceed 30 - 40k. Irrelevant, mostly. CVS is all or nothing. What's surprising is that so many files do work. Since we are talking configuration, fyi, in the server cvswrappers file is an entry for jpgs: *.jpg -k 'b' Good. Please status your JPEGs and verify that the option took. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: AW: using .cvsrc in client-server setup
Fabian Cenedese wrote: Windows 98 does not allow me to name/create a file as .cvsrc I tried naming a file just cvsrc and setting HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.It doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how they accomplished setting global options on windows 98?Any other suggestions? I really really need cvs co -P,update -P and update -d as default options for all users. Let someone create the .cvsrc file on a unix system (or any other system that allows it) for you and then send it to you as email attachment. When saved from the email the file will be created. With Win98 I was able to edit the file after that and save it as .cvsrc, on NT4.0 I had problems because it always tried to rename the file as .cvsrc.txt. I guess that's not an NT problem but one of this editor or registry setting. Just create any suitable file and rename it on the DOS command line, works without a fault (at least on my NT4 but 98 should be even easier). ren cvsrc.txt .cvsrc If you cannot name a file .cvsrc, it is because Windows is managing file extensions for you. Open My Computer, select menu item Tools\Folder Options, select tab View. If Hide file extensions for known file types is selected, then Windows will automatically append .txt to Notepad files. If it is cleared, you can use notepad to create .cvsrc by selecting type All Files when saving. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Changing CVSROOT in CVS/Root of working directory
Riechers, Matthew W wrote: Alternatively, you could add the IP address of the server to the client host file(s). In Windows 98, I believe the file is c:\windows\hosts. In Windows NT systems and derivatives, the file is usually %SYSTEMROOT%\etc\hosts. CAVEAT: Doing this now may cause much pain if the IP address of the host machine ever changes. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Changing CVSROOT in CVS/Root of working directory
mmala wrote: Hi I am facing a problem. Actually, right now our DNS is down so for running client server cvs,I am adding IP address of the clients as entries in the /etc/hosts file of the machine where cvs server is running.But we all have previously checked out working directories;the old CVSROOT is no longer valid;instead of the server name we are giving server ip address and updated using cvs -d $CVSROOT update Now in all CVS/Root directories, the new root has replaced the old one so we no longer have to use -d each time.But in one machine, this is not happening.CVS is always reading old CVSROOT and is giving error 'there is no machine by that name' I changed CVSROOT in the autoexec file, rebooted that machine and did update with -d but in CVS/Root file, the old CVSROOT remains.How do I change this?The client is win 98 machine and cvs client is command prompt. Simply remove all the CVS/Root files in that sandbox and do a `checkout -d` from the top of the tree. This will create new CVS/Root files with the new root. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: cvs does not add hierachy files
Charles Sun wrote: I am a newbie. I added many files and directories in the original check out. Is there a simple way to add all of them? ??cvs add?? does not add hierarchy files and directories. ??cvs import?? will create unnecessary tags on other cvs files. I wish ??cvs add?? has a ??-R?? option. Please do not send HTML mail to technical mailing lists. As far as CVS not adding everything new in a tree, this is deliberate. This prevents the inadvertent adding of intermediate files and other files that you would not wish to version control. This requires you to decide to commit each file. While this is inconvenient, it tends to be, in practice, much less inconvenient than the alternative. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Display all assets by TagName...
Larry Jones wrote: DePaul, James writes: Is there a way in WinCvS to list all of the assets tied to a specific tag!? This is regular (command line) CVS -- WinCVS has it's own mailing list (see www.wincvs.org). But I strongly suspect the answer is no. You are correct in your suspicion. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: An automatically commit
Giohanna MEndez wrote: /---Version 11 /---version 1-/ / \ /\Version 12 version base /---version 2 \---version 3 - Version 31 Each version has: version base |-include (inside some files .h) |-server (inside some files .c) +-client (inside some files .c) version 1 |-include (inside same files as include in version base and more files .h) |-server (inside same files as server in version base and more files .c) |-client (inside same files as client in version base and more files .c) +-communications (inside some files .c) version 2 |-include (inside same files as include in version base and more files .h -different from version 1) |-server (inside same files as server in version base and more files .c -different from version 1) +-client (inside same files as client in version base and more files .c -different from version 1) Snipped more of the same/ I made this logical structure in this way: first I create the version base, then from the version base I made a checkout, then I modify it and import it with the name version 1, I made the same procedure to create version 2 and 3, It is important to say to each modification is different between each version, to create the version 11, I made a checkout from the version 1, then I modify it and import it with the name version 11, I made the same to create version 12. To obtain version 31: I made a checkout from the version 3, then I modify it and import it with the name version 31. Didn't this seem more than a bit awkward? (see below) In this way, I had created modules for each version (at the same level in my cvs repository), but what I want to do is: each time I made a modification in program of the version 1, and I make a commit, the cvs automatically makes a commit for the version 11 and 12. Other example: if I made a commit for a modified program of the version base, cvs make automatically a commit for the dependent versions from it (according to my logical structure). This is my problem: how can I do it automatically? By not archiving multiple copies of the same file. (see below) what I am doing at the moment, that is by the way too expensive, it is: I make checkout of the version 1, then I modify it, then I made commit, after that and manually I made a checkout of the version 11, then I made the same modification and I made a commit, then I made a checkout of the version 12, then I made the same modification and I made a commit This is not only too expensive, it is too error prone. Somebody can help me to make this process more automatically? I shall try. First, I must point out your fundamental problem: you are trying to solve a configuration problem with an archiving system. This is why your solution is so awkward and error prone. The thing to do is to treat this as a CM problem, and you're halfway home. Basically, instead of maintaining so many copies of the same files, you should maintain only one copy, and use a manifest and conversion script to translate the archive into your chosen directories. This results in far less files to archive. It also means that your automatic commit happens by default, although you will need to rerun your conversion script each time you commit. That can be handled with a checkin script, if necessary. HTH, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Newbie question re: ssh
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 22:20:39 (-0800), Mike Ayers wrote: ] Subject: Re: Newbie question re: ssh Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without keys will forcibly invoke username/password login, which will gag the CVS client. Huh? I haven't tried without keys in a while but I'm pretty sure my client still just asks me for the password and lets me type it Hmmm. thinking back, that problem occurs on WinCVS. It may be that the command line client behaves correctly. I need to get my lab rebuilt and test these things first. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: WinCVS problem - sandbox files not shown
Stefan Andersson wrote: (I've tried all combinations of the Show buttons, but the only thing that differs is if non-cvs files is shown or not...) Incorrect. There are a number of Show buttons colored red. Those buttons will hide all files *except* those shown. Please check those and make sure none are depressed. If any are, tell them a good joke, or just click them, and your hidden files should come out to play. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Newbie question re: ssh
Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without keys will forcibly invoke username/password login, which will gag the CVS client. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 11:17:10 (-0800), Shankar Unni wrote: ] Subject: RE: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts Greg opines: Then you have no accountability in your CVS repository. None. You have as much accountability as you have from ssh and the passwd file: you know the name of the person (from the pserver passwd file), and that is recorded in the repository. No you don't. CVS is not a security application. It was not designed to be one and it cannot ensure any (i.e. not any at all) level of accountabilty. None whatsoever. Nil. Zilch. Zip. Zero. Negative even. If you think otherwise you are sadly mistaken and seriously fooling yourself into a complete and utterly false sense of security. Stupid questions for blowhards time: When did anyone in this thread actually *ask* how to secure their CVS server? /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts
Larry Jones wrote: Mahantesh writes: we have working repository running right now. Currently the mode of authentication is .rhosts. We are planning to migrate the mode of authentication to pserver. Why? :ext: is generally consider superior to :pserver:, particularly when used with ssh rather than rsh. Not all systems implement rsh the same way, as there was never any real spec. As such, the OP may be working with systems whose rsh's do not interoperate. If there is no need to secure the client/server connections, then pserver makes a nice low maintenance solution, and is sure to work on any machine on which a CVS client can be compiled. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: CVS, emacs, shh, cygwin
Seth Copen Goldstein wrote: I am having trouble using cvs, emacs, bash, etc. on my windows XP machine. My configuration is: CVS: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server) Emacs: GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)\n of 2002-03-19 on buffy Cygwin: not sure version, cygwin1.dll is dated: 2/25/2002 Ssh: (from cygwin): OpenSSH_3.2.3p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090604f I have afs (version 1.2.2b), but would also be ok with using SSH. However: If I can't set a CVSROOT to :local:f:/path (it complains about path not being absolute) Correct. Cygwin is a Unix emulation layer, and therefore does not recognize DOS drive specifications. CVSROOT should be :local:/cygdrive/f/path. I can't set CVS_RSH=SSH, because cvs replies: cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) This is probably an artifact of your bad CVSROOT, yes? (there are no error messages) Don't you get the bad CVSROOT error message? Wouldn't that count? /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: can't add with wincvs
Steve Buehler wrote: Ok. I was able to get a private key setup and running so that it logs me in. Now I am running into another problem. I can connect to the server. In fact, in WinCVS, I can even do a create which gives me the following reply in WinCVS: cvs init *CVS exited normally with code 0* WHOA, Nelly! Where's the `cvs checkout` that you MUST do between these two paragraphs? Even with no files in the repository, it will set up your CVS directory. Now. When I go again and click on a file to add (testz.php), then click on the Add Selected button, I get this: cvs add testz.php (in directory C:\ijobs\cvs\) cvs add: in directory .: cvs [add aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing Sounds like it couldn't find the CVS directory... /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: can't add with wincvs
Steve Buehler wrote: I am not sure if this got through to the list or not since I didn't see it come back to me. So I am sending it again in the hopes that someone can help me. ---original message I am hoping that someone might be able to help me. My customer can't do without a GUI to work with cvs. I am not knowledgeable with either wincvs or cvs. Anyway, I get the following error when trying to click on the Add Selected button in wincvs. (The [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not what I have entered. I changed it here for security reasons). ---snip- cvs add testz.php (in directory C:\ijobs\cvs\) cvs add: warning: unrecognized response `Password: ' from cvs server cvs add: warning: unrecognized response `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: ' from cvs server cvs add: warning: unrecognized response `Password: ' from cvs server cvs [add aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) *CVS exited normally with code 1* ---snip- In the WinCVS preferences, I have: General Enter the CVSROOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot Authentication SSH Server Ports Check for an alternate rsh name (checked) c:\putty\plink.exe I know they can login to the server with SSH manually. Actually, I am testing it with my account. Yes, but when you log in to the account, you have to enter username/password, don't you? What you need to do is set up plink with a key for the account that you wish to log in with. You will need to consult the plink instructions/manual to determine how to do this. Note that you will then need to take appropriate measures to guard that key, which will be stored in plaintext in a file on your Windows machine. HTH, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Newbie Problem: About repositiory
Noel Yap wrote: There're several things (with varying pro's and con's) you can do: 1. move back the repo until you've checked in everything you need (and don't checkout another working directory until it's moved back) 2. create a symlink (or mount the new repo) to the location of the old repo 3. modify all your CVS/R* files to point to the new repo 1 and 2 may not be possible in your environment. 3 is intrusive and error-prone. What about...? 4. Run a script which deletes all the CVS/Root directories and then `cvs -d /new/path/to/repository update` Won't this do the trick? /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Linex need serious concurent version control software ?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wander if cvs can make merging kylix project files? My guess is that it will make a mess. I have used CVS (and perforce) to manage the .bpr files on other platforms. It's doable, if a bit of a pain. It's pretty much a straight forward XML file. However, it IS formated by software which likes to throw in line breaks at obnoxious points. For example, instead of something like the xml equivalent of: SOURCES = foo.c bar.c baz.c it does SOURCES = foo.c bar.c baz.c with line wraps (probably around 80 chars or so). I believe it also keeps a listing for object files as well. So, if you add a new file at the beginning, it changes a LOT of lines. So, yes, that can make merging a significant pain. But I don't know of any tool that would handle that well. What I usually do is merge, handle the sources conflicts, and nuke the object file listing, and let the borland tools rebuild those parts of it. Occasionally there may be some conflicts with defines and what not. But, to be honest, most of those issues exist with Makefile as well. At least with being xml, you could probably write a filter that could put each item on it's own line, which could reduce conflicts. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different); -- gcc ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: Nubie question
Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hello all! Can anyone explain me how to get latest STABLE release of some package from CVS? Manual says that i have to use tags. But all examples in it contain tag's name, such as cvs update -r Release-02 But what if i dont know this name? Can I find it somehow? Is there a CVS command that lists all tag names? Note that knowing all the tag names mat not help. You need to know whatever tagging system is in use in the project you are working on, and that tagging system needs to include a procedure for tagging the latest stable release. If both of these are true, only then can you use the previously mentioned commands to scan the tags and find your latest stable release. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: pserver login problem to Linux from Win2k
Kaz Kylheku wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Steve deRosier wrote: Here's what is happening: 1. J: is a networked drive connected to my home directory on our Linux server via Samba You can't do that, because Linux and Windows don't agree on the representation of text files. This affects the treatment of text documents on update and commit, and also the representation of the CVS/ administrative files. Also, you should always use native drives both for your sandbox and repository. Generally speaking, networked drives within their native systems (NFS across Unix clones, SMB between Windows boxes) can be considered native. Anything that crosses OS architectures (especially Unix/Windows) is bad. So even if you solve the location non-transparency problem by using a CVSROOT that works everywhere, you still have this problem. New question: Is there an easy way to fix this problem, so I can transparently use CVS in the same working directory both remotely and locally? This is not a problem, so much as an architectural fact. Unix and Windows do not agree on what constitutes a text file. It is impossible for them to work together without some sort of intermediary. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
