any suggestion for this

2000-06-26 Thread javalist
Hello CVS, I have a cvs server running on this machine: cpu:pentium mmx 200 memory:64M os:solaris 2.7 cvs version:1.10(sorry I don't know the minor version) on this server we have a source tree,about 32M£¬most of file in the tree are source c/c++ file.wh

Dates in WinCVS

2000-06-26 Thread Oscar Amat
I am having a little trouble with the dates displayed in WinCVS. When I commit a file to the cvs server (Solaris) via pserver the date stored seems to be right, say 11.25. When CVS displays that date on screen it is shown as 09:25, which is obviously wrong. The client is a NT 4.0 Service Pack 5

WinCVS Pserver. Stratadev Host error

2000-06-26 Thread Steve Cowling
hello, I am running WinCVS 1.0.6 on Windows2000. When I first start up WinCVS the status screen shows: CVSROOT: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED] as the the user and host that will be used. This is tatlly different from the user and host specified in the preferences section. I have set up about 30 u

What to do with sanity.sh -r crerepos

2000-06-26 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Larry! The latest patch you applied to CVS has the following description in the ChangeLog: This completes the memory leak shoot-out -- the Purify'ed version of CVS now runs the entire test suite, both local and remote (except for remote crerepos, which causes Purify to choke) with *no* me

Re: any suggestion for this

2000-06-26 Thread Dirk Ruediger
Hi, > I have a cvs server running on this machine: > cpu:pentium mmx 200 > memory:64M > os:solaris 2.7 > cvs version:1.10(sorry I don't know the minor version) > > on this server we have a source tree,about 32M£¬most of > file in the tree are source c/c+

Re: Dates in WinCVS

2000-06-26 Thread Martin Roehrig
Hi Oscar, Oscar Amat schrieb: > I am having a little trouble with the dates displayed in WinCVS. > When I commit a file to the cvs server (Solaris) via pserver the date > stored seems to be right, say 11.25. When CVS displays that date on screen > it is shown as 09:25, which is obviously wrong.

Re: Fw: failure notice

2000-06-26 Thread Dirk Ruediger
Hi Darryl, > I've seen quite a few html files etc > that seem to have revision information/tag information > inserted into them. Is this people doing this manualy > or are you able to create a script that inserts this information > on commit? Look at Section 12 of the CVS manual (Keyword

Re: CVS Server?

2000-06-26 Thread Dirk Ruediger
Hi Pascal, > Until now, I was using cvs locally on my Linux machine. But I have to share > source files with people who are working with Windows NT using WinCVS. In the > documentation given with cvs I do't understanf good what I have to make to > allow Windows NT users to access cvs. You have t

Windows version of CVS to be a server?

2000-06-26 Thread BTRASK
Hello, I am fairly new to CVS and would like to set up CVS as both client and server here on our company network. All our machines are NT machines. I just bought the book "Open Source Development with CVS" and it indicated that you could not presently use a Windows port of CVS to serve a reposit

How to create Views on the CVS Repository (WinCVS)

2000-06-26 Thread Hans Schmid
Hi, I have a question regarding modules. I am sure, this problem has been solved (or discussed) by one of you experts. I want to create user "Views" to my repository, where one (backend)developer can checkout the backend code of every module at once into his local Source directory. I have to rec

Re: CVS compilaton error on file krb5.h

2000-06-26 Thread Larry Jones
Muhammad Shakeel writes: > > Kerberos is not installed on the system. How to set the > configuration > not to include kerberos ? Update to the current interim release of CVS (1.10.8) from www.cvshome.org. -Larry Jones I think we need to change the rules. -- Calvin

Re: Commit and top-level dir behaviour under global -d option

2000-06-26 Thread Larry Jones
Ralf S. Engelschall writes: > > 1. The repository was copied from the remote site to the local site > 2. The working directory was checked out from the local site > 3. Some files in the top-level of the working directory are edited > 4. Some files in sub-directories of the working directory are e

Problems while connecting to the cvs server

2000-06-26 Thread Pascal Francq
When I try to connect to the cvs server (which is on the same computer) I have this error mess age: [pfrancq@mecapp97 pfrancq]$ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server mecapp97.ulb.ac.be:

Re: What to do with sanity.sh -r crerepos

2000-06-26 Thread Larry Jones
Pavel Roskin writes: > > Have you seen my patch to sanity.sh that makes it possible to run it in > the remote mode without any kind of remote shell? The patch was sent to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on June 21th on the subject "Patch - no more system rsh in > sanity.sh" > > It is the "crerepos" test tha

Re: Duplicate key found problem

2000-06-26 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > cvs server: duplicate key found for 'y' > > I had a look in the repositories CVSROOT directory and there is a val-tags file > there, with the last line being " y". > What file is this? The val-tags file caches valid tag names so that CVS doesn't have to recurse ove

Re: CVS compilaton error on file krb5.h

2000-06-26 Thread Larry Jones
Muhammad Shakeel writes: > > I was prefering v1.10 release beacause v1.10 instead of > v1.10.8 > as the point releases are not that stable as a major > release. While that's generally true, 1.10.8 is *far* more stable than 1.10 -- all of the 1.10 interim releases have contained lots of bug fixes

Re: CVS compilaton error on file krb5.h

2000-06-26 Thread Muhammad Shakeel
Dear Lary, I was prefering v1.10 release beacause v1.10 instead of v1.10.8 as the point releases are not that stable as a major release. Moreover my client is also using v1.10, so i am prefering to avoid any compatability issue because of different releases, when we send source code to each oth

Re: RE ".trunk" patch refinement

2000-06-26 Thread David Thornley
John P Cavanaugh wrote: > > > > I may be slow today, but I don't see how merging the metadata is going > > > to accomplish all this [stuff that vendor branches do]. > > Merge Metadata can serve the same function as the vendor branch. > > Typical scenario, a local copy of an open source project,

VSS vs. CVS

2000-06-26 Thread BTRASK
Can anyone point me to some info that gives some facts on the pros and cons regarding deciding between VSS (Visual Source Safe) and CVS? Thanks in advance, Bruce

Re: Empty directories

2000-06-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 08:22:50PM -0700, W. Reilly Cooley wrote: > If you want the directories to remain, but remain empty, put in a file > called .cvsignore with the contents of '*'. You can call the file anything you want, and its contents are irrelevent. All that matters is that the director

Re: Dates in WinCVS

2000-06-26 Thread Alexandre Parenteau
Oscar, Oscar Amat wrote: > I am having a little trouble with the dates displayed in WinCVS. > When I commit a file to the cvs server (Solaris) via pserver the date > stored seems to be right, say 11.25. When CVS displays that date on screen > it is shown as 09:25, which is obviously wrong. The cl

Re: WinCVS Pserver. Stratadev Host error

2000-06-26 Thread Alexandre Parenteau
Steve, There is a Macro named "Change Root" which will change all the CVS/Root file of a checked-out copy (usefull if your server changes location and you don't want to recheck-out). If you open this file, you'll see that the macro is not functional unless you uncomment the first line. There is a

Re: How to create Views on the CVS Repository (WinCVS)

2000-06-26 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 04:40:59PM +0200, Hans Schmid wrote: > So I actually want to assign the same checkout directory for the two > de/backend directories. > > I managed to define a module in the modules file: > Backend -a Project/module_1/special/Source/de/backend > Project/module_2/Source

How to 'cvs export' through pserver?

2000-06-26 Thread nly
CVS newbie - Sorry if this question came up before. How can I cvs export through pserver? Is this possible? Since "export" is similar to checkout but without the CVS admin folders, one should be able to 'export'. I tried but no luck. Please help. Thank you.

Problem tagging a large repository

2000-06-26 Thread Matthew Berney
Hello CVS gurus, I am trying to manage the software configuration for a large team of Software Engineers (60+) using CVS on Windows NT. We are attempting to use the "Flying fish approach" in the Open Source Development with CVS. This is essentially using personal branches to support parallel de

RE: CVS compilaton error on file krb5.h

2000-06-26 Thread Zia Babar
Title: RE: CVS compilaton error on file krb5.h Try cvs 1.10.8, it compiles without any errors. -Original Message- From: Muhammad Shakeel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 5:49 AM To: CVS Mailing list Subject: CVS compilaton error on file krb5.h I am getting fo

Re: Problems while connecting to the cvs server

2000-06-26 Thread Pascal Francq
In fact, I was using an old version. So I download and compile cvs version 1.10.8. But know I have an other error: [pfrancq@mecapp97 pfrancq]$ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: received broken pipe sign

Re: CVS import/commit issue

2000-06-26 Thread W. Reilly Cooley
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Wil Cooley wrote: > I'm trying to import sources into a directory with the same name as > one I just removed (and committed), but every time I do the import, it > goes directly into the attic. FYI, I solved this by simply copying the files back into the directory (after doin

Re: Commit and top-level dir behaviour under global -d option

2000-06-26 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Ralf S. Engelschall writes: >> >> 1. The repository was copied from the remote site to the local site >> 2. The working directory was checked out from the local site >> 3. Some files in the top-level of the working directory are edited >> 4. Some files

Re: How to 'cvs export' through pserver?

2000-06-26 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > How can I cvs export through pserver? Is this possible? Since > "export" > is similar to checkout but without the CVS admin folders, one should > be able to 'export'. I tried but no luck. It should just work -- what problem are you having? -Larry Jones Hmph. --

Problem with common work area and file watches

2000-06-26 Thread Chris Tippett
I use CVS along with several other people and we share project space on a file server so we don't use checkouts, we only have watches on everything and use edit to make our modifications. It turns out that we cannot edit each others files if we are not the owner. CVS creates the ./CVS/Base/ an

Re: Problems while connecting to the cvs server

2000-06-26 Thread Larry Jones
Pascal Francq writes: > > [pfrancq@mecapp97 pfrancq]$ cvs -d >:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login > (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > CVS password: > cvs [login aborted]: received broken pipe signal That almost certainly means that inetd was unable to start the server -- ch

History on a given branch?

2000-06-26 Thread rjd
How do we find out the history of "commits" of all files in a given branch, showing users' names? I cannot get a history showing branch names. (Actually, "history" seems to be a little bit confused. When I asked for a date-constrained history of a particular file, it told me about a diefferent

RE: How to 'cvs export' through pserver?

2000-06-26 Thread Ly, Nghia
Larry, Thank you for replying: Here is the output: [nly@tstmh002 nly]$ cvs export -d test -r Test_Tag WIA cvs [export aborted]: cannot write : No such file or directory To go around this problem, I also 'checkout' the WIA module through pserver, did a 'cvs export -r Test_Tag WIA', all non-ta

can I recreate a branch?

2000-06-26 Thread Dennis Jones
I have a branch that I want to re-create from the main trunk. Would it be best to destroy the old branch or merge the changes from the main trunk onto the branch? If the latter is best, how is that done? (I know you can merge changes from a branch onto the main trunk, but am unsure if you can go

Re: can I recreate a branch?

2000-06-26 Thread Stephen Rasku
Dennis Jones wrote: > >I have a branch that I want to re-create from the main trunk. Would it be >best to destroy the old branch or merge the changes from the main trunk onto >the branch? If the latter is best, how is that done? (I know you can merge >changes from a branch onto the main trunk

Re: RE ".trunk" patch refinement

2000-06-26 Thread John P Cavanaugh
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:24:37AM -0500, David Thornley wrote: > John P Cavanaugh wrote: > > > > > > I may be slow today, but I don't see how merging the metadata is going > > > > to accomplish all this [stuff that vendor branches do]. > > > > Merge Metadata can serve the same function as the v

RE: How to 'cvs export' through pserver?

2000-06-26 Thread Hamid Ghassemi
I experienced the same problem with the same exact error message. After many tries I gave up and did a cvs checkout and then used the following command to remove all the CVS folders; find . -type d -name "CVS" -print | xargs rm -fr You will need to cd to your target directory and run the abov