Releases!

2000-07-28 Thread Marinalva Dias Soares
Hello everybody! Anybody know how can I generate a release of a software with CVS? Sorry my english, I'm brazilian. Thanks! Marinalva.

Re: Releases!

2000-07-28 Thread Joerg Beyer
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:02:02AM -0300, Marinalva Dias Soares wrote: Hello everybody! Anybody know how can I generate a release of a software with CVS? is "cvs export" what you want? Joerg -- "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981 "Windows 95 needs at

Re: Releases!

2000-07-28 Thread Marinalva Dias Soares
I have a program that's composed by 4 modules with differents versions. I want generate a release 2.0 with versions 1.3.1 of module A, 1.2 of module B, 1.4.2.1 of module C and D. cvs export do it? how, please? thanks, Marinalva.

RE: Releases!

2000-07-28 Thread John Scott
CVS is not a build or configuration management tool. It only tracks multiple versions of source code so it will not help you much. From my (limited) experience with the software, the best you will get is to be able to label source code for a particular release so that you can extract that

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Laird Nelson
Wolfgang Laun wrote: Talking about UNIX (vanilla) Make and GNU Make, I'd say that you're in for some fun and games if you try to make this robust against spaces in path names by using some general set of rules. It would be possible to put quotes around all macro expansions where one path name

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.07.28 02:07:41 Talking about UNIX (vanilla) Make and GNU Make, I'd say that you're in for some fun and games if you try to make this robust against spaces in path names by using some general set of rules. It would be possible to put quotes around all macro expansions

Re: Checking branch for commit

2000-07-28 Thread Marc Poinot
Laird Nelson wrote: Marc Poinot wrote: The effect is that you can retrieve the old revision, the (possible) tag and the type of the file as an arg of the commitinfo called script. For tagging operations, you can always write a taginfo script instead. Yep, that's done. But I had to

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.07.28 09:22:26 Wolfgang Laun wrote: Talking about UNIX (vanilla) Make and GNU Make, I'd say that you're in for some fun and games if you try to make this robust against spaces in path names by using some general set of rules. It would be possible to put quotes

About adding directories in branches

2000-07-28 Thread Michel Hulshof
When I add a directory in a branch, and I check out the main trunk, the directory appears in the main trunk. Can anyone explain this? Thanks in advance, Michel.

RE: Can CVS do it?

2000-07-28 Thread John Scott
It is used by your client so that it knows what port to connect to on the server. Thus, the server uses cvspserver to identify which port to listen on for incoming connections. The client uses cvspserver to identify which port to connect to on the repository server. Since I was using a

Re: suggestion: recycle bin feature integrated into WinCVS/gCVS

2000-07-28 Thread Richard Wesley
At 9:10 +0800 7/28/00, David Penn wrote: hi, dear developers, Can anyone add recycle bin feature into WinCVS? now the removed file can not be restored by GUI. To fulfill such task, one have to remember all removed file name and version, use command line, which is not easy. Regards, David Penn

RE: Releases!

2000-07-28 Thread Taylor, Tim
Check out the detailed instructions at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#Exporting%20For%20Public%20Distribu tion Basically, the process would be: cvs tag -c R_2_0 Issue this command from the top level directory of your project. This gives the latest version of each of the files in your

Re: Checking branch for commit

2000-07-28 Thread Laird Nelson
Marc Poinot wrote: Laird Nelson wrote: Additionally, you can get the old version by having your commitinfo script look in ./CVS/Entries; the line with the filename in it will also have its old version. On the server side ? Yes; even in a pserver or rsh context. If your script is being

Re: About adding directories in branches

2000-07-28 Thread Larry Jones
Michel Hulshof writes: When I add a directory in a branch, and I check out the main trunk, the directory appears in the main trunk. Can anyone explain this? CVS doesn't control directories, only files. You probably want to use the -P option on checkout to prune empty directoryies -- you may

Re: TCL

2000-07-28 Thread Jonathan M. Gilligan
If the question is about WinCVS (you don't say), then the answer is "you can't get user input." At 11:45 AM 7/28/2000, you wrote: Hi everyone: I want to work on some Macros and I have a tcl question: How do I get user input? I can see "cvsout" but I couldn't find any "cvsin" Thanks in

Re: Base directory, in CVS directory

2000-07-28 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.07.20 14:14:21 I think perhaps you are speaking as a cvs developer here not a cvs user. To me "cvs unedit" has a closer meaning in english for reverting files than "cvs update". But I guess the "cvs update -C" isn't technically reverting files. Its updating them

What are the differnet status CVS Display ?

2000-07-28 Thread Badami, Srinivas
Hi, Can I see some list or mail where I see what are the CVS Statues means like M - Locallly modified after previous check out but not commited. P - ? E - ? C - Conflicts ? - CVS Does not know anything about this file Srinivas

Re: What are the differnet status CVS Display ?

2000-07-28 Thread Larry Jones
Badami, Srinivas writes: Can I see some list or mail where I see what are the CVS Statues means like See "update output" in the Cederqvist manual. -Larry Jones Monopoly is more fun when you make your own Chance cards. -- Calvin

Re: Error : cvs server: subsidiary diff failed

2000-07-28 Thread Larry Jones
Badami, Srinivas writes: What is the meaning of this error or in what scenarios do you get this error. It means that when diff3 did diffs between the common file and each of the other two files, one of those (subsidiary) diffs failed for some reason. CVS uses diff3 to merge changes. What

cvs security problem (fwd)

2000-07-28 Thread Brian Behlendorf
a) does the solution proposed for #1 break anything? b) looks like #2 is both a client problem (never trust what the CVS server gives you) and a server problem (don't allow people to check in silly paths) - or is #2 not something that someone can cause to happen through CVS commits alone?

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread David Boyce
Did I say it was guaranteed to be correct? No, in fact in the very next breath I promoted another solution as being more robust. Note that none of the solutions mentioned are guaranteed to work; e.g. the CC installation allows the default installation path to be changed, so depending on

Re: [cciug] general makefile (and script) style rule

2000-07-28 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 02:38:12PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: David Boyce writes: CLEARTOOL := C:/Progra~1/Rational/ClearCase/bin/cleartool.exe That can't be guaranteed to be correct across multiple machines. Or indeed within the same machine, if you ever have to do a full restore -- which

CVS birds of a feather report

2000-07-28 Thread Yarry Gonzalez
Hello all, Here is an update on the CVS BOF that OpenAvenue hosted recently at the O'Reilly OpenSource conference in Monterey. I thought it might interest the group, so I'm posting it here for your perusal. Should you care to see it in it's pretty HTML version, you can find it here: