copy repositories

2000-11-29 Thread Stefan Peter
Hi All, I have a CVS "syncronization" problem. Suppose we have two repositories: a "sharp" one e.g. /rep1 and a "spare" one /rep2. Using CVS protocoll, is it possible to create a security copy of certain projects in /rep1 to /rep2 (including all revision-information)? Cheers, Peter Stefan _

Re: rcs2log equivalent via remote (ssh) protocol?

2000-11-29 Thread Pierre Asselin
> > I have remote CVS access to a server via SSH. The mechanism is such > that I can't issue normal shell commands via ssh on the server. > > Nevertheless I would like to be able to generate a ChangeLog from the > CVS tree in much the same way as I used to when my CVS repository was > local.

rcs2log equivalent via remote (ssh) protocol?

2000-11-29 Thread James Youngman
I have remote CVS access to a server via SSH. The mechanism is such that I can't issue normal shell commands via ssh on the server. Nevertheless I would like to be able to generate a ChangeLog from the CVS tree in much the same way as I used to when my CVS repository was local. How can I do th

Re: merge/diff GUI tool

2000-11-29 Thread David Martin
Howard Zhou wrote: > Hi, CVS Users, > > I am wondering if there is any GUI based diff/merge tool in the public > domain, which can work with CVS? Not quite responsive (since it's not in the public domain), but it is free - Starteam's visual difference / merge tool VISDIFF: http://www.starbase.co

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: > Derek R. Price writes: > > > > I would have thought checkout records were overkill. You know what might be > > interesting in conjunction with this. A config file string that took the same >flags > > which can be passed to 'history -x' and filtered records *before* they we

Re: Question about pserver on SunOS

2000-11-29 Thread Larry Jones
Steve Dondershine writes: > > And these commands no longer work. cvs interaction yields > a message that the option --allow-root. is an > unrecognized option. > [...] > > Both systems are using cvs 1.10 If --allow-root is an unrecognized option, then it's not CVS 1.10. You probably have

Question about pserver on SunOS

2000-11-29 Thread Steve Dondershine
We have been using a pserver implementation for a while at my company. On an HPUX-10 server the following seem to work fine. cvspserver 2401/tcp# in the /etc/service file cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/usr/cvsroot pserver # in the inetd

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Donald Sharp
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:26:57PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: > Donald Sharp wrote: > > > The thing that really concerns me about this is that the history file > > can get quite large and will tend to grow much quicker now with these > > changes. For instance we had a repository with a history

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Larry Jones
Derek R. Price writes: > > I would have thought checkout records were overkill. You know what might be > interesting in conjunction with this. A config file string that took the same flags > which can be passed to 'history -x' and filtered records *before* they were written > to the history fil

Setting up an internal CVS server

2000-11-29 Thread Stephen Rasku
We are currently setting up a CVS server for our local and remote developers. We have successfully configured ssh to connect to CVS for our remote developers. I now want to set up the server for our on-site developers. Currently we are using pserver and local access. The new setup will pr

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Laine Stump
Donald Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The thing that really concerns me about this is that the history file > can get quite large and will tend to grow much quicker now with these > changes. This is the problem I have with it too. Any such "history" feature that isn't scalable without need

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: > The thing that really concerns me about this is that the history file > can get quite large and will tend to grow much quicker now with these > changes. For instance we had a repository with a history > file that was 118megs. Parsing that took quite some time, and in the >

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Sutton
On 11/29/00 11:29:42, Larry Jones wrote: > Donald Sharp writes: > > > > This is starting to get complicated. Should we rework the cvs history > > output for the 'T' record? > > I think it's better to leave the history stuff alone and let the few > people who care about recording tag information

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Donald Sharp
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:09:32PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: > Larry Jones wrote: > > > Donald Sharp writes: > > > > > > This is starting to get complicated. Should we rework the cvs history > > > output for the 'T' record? > > > > I think it's better to leave the history stuff alone and let

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: > Donald Sharp writes: > > > > This is starting to get complicated. Should we rework the cvs history > > output for the 'T' record? > > I think it's better to leave the history stuff alone and let the few > people who care about recording tag information use taginfo to do it.

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: > > 2) Will a symbolic tag be included in the history if it was specified in the tag > > command? e.g. 'cvs tag -roldtag -b newtag" would list "oldtag" somewhere as well >as > > "newtag". I know this seems somewhat redundant, but it gives the user the ability > > to make q

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Larry Jones
Donald Sharp writes: > > This is starting to get complicated. Should we rework the cvs history > output for the 'T' record? I think it's better to leave the history stuff alone and let the few people who care about recording tag information use taginfo to do it. -Larry Jones Well of course th

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: > Here are some sample cvs history -T output(s): > > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.3 [d:A] > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd foo.c 1.1 [d:A] > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.4 [b:M] > T 2000-11-29 15:22 + sharpd bar.c [b:D] > T 2000-11-29 15:22 +

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Donald Sharp
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:54:01AM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: > Donald Sharp wrote: > > > Here are some sample cvs history -T output(s): > > > > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.3 [d:A] > > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd foo.c 1.1 [d:A] > > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.4 [b:M

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: > Here are some sample cvs history -T output(s): > > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.3 [d:A] > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd foo.c 1.1 [d:A] > T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.4 [b:M] > T 2000-11-29 15:22 + sharpd bar.c [b:D] > T 2000-11-29 15:22 +

Re: Changing the log message

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Olaf Meding wrote: > Sorry, I am using WinCVS and tried both the command line and the WinCVS GUI. > Your suggestion fails with both. > > >>> > All the shells I'm familiar with allow you to just include them in the > quotes: > > cvs admin -mr1.2:"New message > next line" file > >>> Sorry. I don'

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Donald Sharp
Here are some sample cvs history -T output(s): T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.3 [d:A] T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd foo.c 1.1 [d:A] T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.4 [b:M] T 2000-11-29 15:22 + sharpd bar.c [b:D] T 2000-11-29 15:22 + sharpd foo.c [b:D] Is this o

managing groups via CVS passwd file

2000-11-29 Thread brendan . fitzpatrick
I am in the process of creating several CVS projects and would like to manage my users via the CVS passwd file. I would like to grant my users access to multiple different projects without creating a system account for them, is this possible? I know how to do it by creating system accounts fo

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: > > 3) Don't forget that a final patch submission should contain a ChangeLog > > entry and any necessary doc changes, but I'm sure I didn't need to remind you > > about that. :) > > Nope won't forget. As I said earlier the whole point of this > exercise was to get some comm

Re: Using an IP adresss to connect to a CVS repository

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Antony Stace wrote: > IS it possible to use an IP address instead of the machine name to > connect to, ie something like > > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot project1 login > > I have tried the above and it dosent seem to work. Am I doing something > a little wrong or is this

Re: Problems with committing changes to a CVS repository when not on the lan, is it possible to store them up?

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Antony Stace wrote: > I have just started to use CVS. I have managed to set up a CVS > repository on a machine and connect to it via my notebook which is all > good and well when I am on the LAN. What I want to be able to do is to > somehow make a copy of the repository on my notebook and work

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:24:57PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: > Donald Sharp wrote: > > > Here's a first crack at it. Probably still needs some work, but wanted > > to get some feedback ;) It's attached to the end of this email... > > That's not a complete fix. Here's what I noticed: Yep,

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Sutton
Why not use a taginfo trigger to capture tag data. Below is a sample output of the perl script I use. Repository: /cvs_repositories/m2k_cvsroot/m2k/PCP_DEV/Players/AirCAT/src Tag: RadCAT_Version_0_2 Operation:add Date: Fri Nov 5 15:55:01 1999 Tagged-By:larkinbr

Problems with committing changes to a CVS repository when not on the lan, is it possible to store them up?

2000-11-29 Thread Antony Stace
Hi Folks I have just started to use CVS. I have managed to set up a CVS repository on a machine and connect to it via my notebook which is all good and well when I am on the LAN. What I want to be able to do is to somehow make a copy of the repository on my notebook and work on this copy when I

Re: cvs release and symbolic links

2000-11-29 Thread Marinalva Dias Soares
CVS release remove the directory and don't create release. For this, you have to use cvs tag or rtag, see the manual Cederqvist,ok? On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Carmelo Pisani wrote: > > We have some source which requires symbolic links. As CVS does > not store symbolic links we have module checkout a

Parameters in notify file

2000-11-29 Thread Tomas Velek
Hello, I use "notify" file to notify others about commit. In this file is the line: ALL postie -host:10.10.10.99 -to:%s -from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -s: \"CVS $USER\" -msg:\"CVS notification\" This command send the message to all users in "users" file, whenever commit was made. But I don't know a