request for help-cvs@gnu.org

2000-03-09 Thread Karl Fogel
Would it be possible to set up <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? (And the obvious alias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> too, I guess?) Recently, many inhabitants of [EMAIL PROTECTED] have noticed that a clear division of interest is arising, between people seeking help using CVS, and people seeking to discuss CVS design

RE: Unix to Dos filtering

2000-03-09 Thread Chris Cameron
On Friday, March 10, 2000 11:33 AM, Karen Baldwin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hi; just discovered this group. Help! > I have a question very similar to that first asked within this thread. > > We've been using CVS exclusively on Solaris/Unix > until now. We are now porting to NT. We inte

Re: WinCVS NT4 -> Unix SSH repository

2000-03-09 Thread Paul Garceau
Hi folks, Thanks, Greg, for your reply. On 9 Mar 00, at 11:46, the Illustrious Greg W. Moore wrote: > Paul, > Since it appears that no one has responded yet I'll tell you what > I've learned after a similar fail attempt. Just for the record my > setup is similar wincvs 1.1b8 on NT4.0 SP

Re: roll back a single file

2000-03-09 Thread alant
It is described in the manual under "cvs checkout" and other places. You need to know the date or revision number of the file revision you wish to retrieve. Try something like: cvs checkout -r 1.13 file.c# retrieve revision 1.13 of the file cvs checkout

Re: checking out by date

2000-03-09 Thread alant
Try something like cvs checkout -D "2000-02-28 14:14" myModule ... Note that times in CVS are ALWAYS in UTC. Alan Thompson "Ariela Orian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/09/2000 10:33:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Alan Thompson/Orincon) Subject: checking out by date Hi W

Re: roll back a single file

2000-03-09 Thread Dave Makower
At 3:16 PM -0600 3/9/00, Steele Kennett wrote: >I had a working file in the repository. The client said that he >wanted it to look a totally different way. So i changed it and then >committed it again. Now the client says he liked it the way it was >before! How do i get that file back? Assumin

Re: roll back a single file

2000-03-09 Thread Larry Jones
Steele Kennett writes: > > I had a working file in the repository. The client said that he wanted it to > look a totally different way. So i changed it and then committed it again. > Now the client says he liked it the way it was before! How do i get that > file back? Find out what revision of t

Re: roll back a single file

2000-03-09 Thread Stephen Rasku
Steele Kennett wrote > >I had a working file in the repository. The client said that he wanted it to >look a totally different way. So i changed it and then committed it again. >Now the client says he liked it the way it was before! How do i get that >file back? > >please help. It is possible

RE: Feature wanted: patch support and moving in the tree

2000-03-09 Thread Cameron, Steve
[smc] [snip] [smc] [..regarding "cvs update -j rev1 -j rev2 myfile.c" ] > > > > rev1 and rev2 can be arbitrary revisions. (Well, with the > > restriction > > that they must already be in the same repository...which is > > the main difference I see fro

RE: devel-cvs@gnu.org

2000-03-09 Thread Jerry Nairn
> From: Shandy Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 11:41 AM > well, i think we still need another list with public write > access to seperate > information about USING cvs from information about AUTHORING cvs. I'd like that, too. That's what I really need, and what

Unix to Dos filtering

2000-03-09 Thread Karen Baldwin
Hi; just discovered this group. Help! I have a question very similar to that first asked within this thread. We've been using CVS exclusively on Solaris/Unix until now. We are now porting to NT. We intend to have a single source repository on a Solaris machine, which will be accessed by user

Re: cvs up -C bug(s)

2000-03-09 Thread Michael Gersten
Noel L Yap wrote: > > >I > >don't have a clue as to what -j should do in combination with -C. > > It seems you've been more thorough than I have. Looking at it another way, "cvs > up -C file" should be equivalent to "cvs up -p -r file >file". If > other flags (eg "-j") were specified, the co

Re: Feature wanted: patch support and moving in the tree

2000-03-09 Thread Michael Gersten
(subject has been renamed slightly.) "Cameron, Steve" wrote: > Tobias Weingartner wrote: > > I wrote > > > How about this compromise: A CVS command to walk the local sandbox, find > > > all the patch reject files, and mark conflicts properly? (With an option > > to > > > clean up the patch output

Re: checking out by date

2000-03-09 Thread Michael Gersten
The only date format I have ever gotten to work is 'nnn hours ago'. Ariela Orian wrote: > > Hi > We're trying to check-out a tree according to date. > We're following the instructions in the manual, and for some reason we > fail. > Can we get (very) specific information as to what the date forma

roll back a single file

2000-03-09 Thread Steele Kennett
I had a working file in the repository. The client said that he wanted it to look a totally different way. So i changed it and then committed it again. Now the client says he liked it the way it was before! How do i get that file back?   please help.   Steele

Renaming a branch tag

2000-03-09 Thread Stephen Rasku
Is it possible to rename a branch tag? We have been developing new features on a brach, called rel-2_4, while just performing bug fixes on the head. I am in the process of merging this branch to the head. I have created another branch from the current head called rel-2_3 so that we can cont

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2000-03-09 Thread Mahoney, Jesse N
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Re: checking out by date

2000-03-09 Thread Larry Jones
Ariela Orian writes: > > We're trying to check-out a tree according to date. > We're following the instructions in the manual, and for some reason we > fail. > Can we get (very) specific information as to what the date format > should be. The ISO standard date/time format should always work:

Re: WinCVS NT4 -> Unix SSH repository

2000-03-09 Thread Greg W. Moore
Paul, Since it appears that no one has responded yet I'll tell you what I've learned after a similar fail attempt. Just for the record my setup is similar wincvs 1.1b8 on NT4.0 SP 5. On the Unix Side the repository resides on a Solaris 2.6 box At 07:35 PM 3/6/00 -0800, Paul Garceau wrote: >Gre

Re: devel-cvs@gnu.org

2000-03-09 Thread Karl Fogel
"Cameron, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Essentially anyone may read the messages sent to > devel-cvs but only those who are able to > commit to the CVS repository containng the CVS source > may post messages there, according to DEVEL-CVS > > I, for example, subscribe to that list but can

Virus Alert

2000-03-09 Thread Cengiz Sengel
At least two postings have a nasty virus on this news group. Those are 19916 and 19915. So be careful,,,

RE: devel-cvs@gnu.org

2000-03-09 Thread Shandy Brown
well, i think we still need another list with public write access to seperate information about USING cvs from information about AUTHORING cvs. -shandy On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, Cameron, Steve wrote: > That list ("devel-cvs") already exists, sort of. > > Read the file DEVEL-CVS from the cvs sources.

checking out by date

2000-03-09 Thread Ariela Orian
Hi We're trying to check-out a tree according to date. We're following the instructions in the manual, and for some reason we fail. Can we get (very) specific information as to what the date format should be. Thanks, Ariela

Re: Using MacCvs with ssh

2000-03-09 Thread Sean Levy
Richard Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >At 19:48 -0500 3/8/00, Sean Levy wrote: [snip] >>I'm now trying to set up a reasonable development environment under >>MacOS 9. I've got XEmacs and MPW, and grabbed MacCvs. I have >>both niftytelnet and F-Secure ssh clients. I cannot figure out >>how

RE: devel-cvs@gnu.org

2000-03-09 Thread Cameron, Steve
I wrote: > That list ("devel-cvs") already exists, sort of. > > Read the file DEVEL-CVS from the cvs sources. [smc] And reading this DEVEL-CVS file a bit myself, now I see this: "These topics should either go on info-cvs, or have a new mailing list created for

Re: Using MacCvs with ssh

2000-03-09 Thread Richard Wesley
At 19:48 -0500 3/8/00, Sean Levy wrote: >I'm a long-time cvs user, and have used it on just about every Unix known >to man. My standard modus operandi is cvs over ssh, since I keep my >repositories on a machine that only allows ssh connections, and generally >from somewhere behind a firewall. > >

RE: devel-cvs@gnu.org

2000-03-09 Thread Cameron, Steve
That list ("devel-cvs") already exists, sort of. Read the file DEVEL-CVS from the cvs sources. (it mentions "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"...I don't know if that still works...) Essentially anyone may read the messages sent to devel-cvs but only those who are able to commit to the CVS repository contain

Re: Segfault for CVS over SSH

2000-03-09 Thread Larry Jones
Benjamin B. Thomas writes: > > I found a workaround for the segfaults I got when using CVS over ssh and > kerberized rsh. In the config file, PreservePermissions had been enabled. When I > disabled it, everything worked normally. With it enabled, I could commit one > file at a time, but got segfa

Re: cvs up -C bug(s)

2000-03-09 Thread Larry Jones
Noel L Yap writes [quoting me quoting him]: > > >> It seems you've been more thorough than I have. Looking at it another way, > "cvs > >> up -C file" should be equivalent to "cvs up -p -r file >file". > If > >> other flags (eg "-j") were specified, the command should be equivalent to > "cvs >

Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....

2000-03-09 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/08/2000 04:27:12 PM >[ On Tuesday, March 7, 2000 at 09:39:03 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server >> What if the >> final lines were "cvs add" instead of "cvs add file"? > >Now that's a good questio

Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....

2000-03-09 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/08/2000 03:18:04 PM >> >Even still, what's wrong with an 'all-in-one' to add something to the module >> >file as well? (or are you of the 'if it can be in a script, it mustn't be in >> >the regular program' camp?) >> >> I know I'm in the 'if it can be in a script, it mu

Re: cvs up -C bug(s)

2000-03-09 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/08/2000 04:24:19 PM >> It seems you've been more thorough than I have. Looking at it another way, "cvs >> up -C file" should be equivalent to "cvs up -p -r file >file". If >> other flags (eg "-j") were specified, the command should be equivalent to "cvs >> up -p -r

Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....

2000-03-09 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/08/2000 04:23:10 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server >[ On Tuesday, March 7, 2000 at 09:47:39 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ] >> Subject: R

RE: Feature wanted: checkin time tagging

2000-03-09 Thread Cameron, Steve
Tobias Weingartner wrote: > On Tuesday, March 7, Michael Gersten wrote: [smc] [..snip..] > > The current CVS update/commit, without built-in support for flying fish, > > does not support that middle step: track changes to it. > > Ahh, I think you need to look into tags. One place I w

RE: devel-cvs@gnu.org

2000-03-09 Thread Andy Baker
Good idea

devel-cvs@gnu.org

2000-03-09 Thread Shandy Brown
Hey everybody. What do people think about the idea of creating a new list for CVS development? I personally am tired of the daily deluge of design-related rants and feature requests in my mail box. I am interested in using the cvs program and administering a cvs system. Anybody support this

Re: Segfault for CVS over SSH

2000-03-09 Thread Benjamin B. Thomas
I found a workaround for the segfaults I got when using CVS over ssh and kerberized rsh. In the config file, PreservePermissions had been enabled. When I disabled it, everything worked normally. With it enabled, I could commit one file at a time, but got segfaults any time multiple files were com

Time of the command 'cvs tag'

2000-03-09 Thread Herman Pool
Hi out there,   Is it possible to see at what time the command 'cvs tag' was executed and by whom?   with kind regards,   Herman PoolRotaform / Database Servicestel: 0320 - 286436

Known install problems with WinCVS?

2000-03-09 Thread Gordon Stone
I have been battling periodically to try to install WinCVS on my home machine (Win95) but consistantly fail to get past the installation hurdle. Note this is after successfully installing on my Windows98 Machine in the office. The beta of WinCVS 1.11 gave exactly the same results as 1.06. I have a