Re: Manually deleting empty directories

2000-12-21 Thread Larry Jones
Dave Camp writes: > > If the directories in the repository are empty and never had any files, can > I simply delete them and not have to make any changes to the admin files? Yes, you can. -Larry Jones I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. -- Calvin _

Re: Is the group still alive

2000-12-21 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There haven't been any messages in almost two weeks -- is anyone > still here? There are several messages every single day. If you're not receiving any, I'd suggest getting a real email address as opposed to using a free, web based one, such as Yahoo. AMK4 -

Manually deleting empty directories

2000-12-21 Thread Dave Camp
Quick question. Someone here accidentally added a bunch of empty directories to our repository, and I need to get rid of them. Unfortunately, the MacCVSPro client I am using does not have a -P like option to not grab empty directories from the repository. Frustrating! If the directories in the r

Notification on commit

2000-12-21 Thread pranays
Hi, How do I setup an email notification to go out whenever someone commits a file. I have setup a watch on that file/directory. I don't know whether I should now change notify file or loginfo file and how do I change. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. __

Is the group still alive

2000-12-21 Thread vincerice
There haven't been any messages in almost two weeks -- is anyone still here? In case there is , is it possible to see what has changed in a project/module *since* a certain date? Things can be checked out *as of* a certain date, but I really want to see the opposite -- what has been committe

Re: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Paul Sander wrote: > I agree in principle with your statements and your proposal, but I observe > two omissions: > > 1. There is a class of text file that is not mergeable, but requires newline > conversion. CVS does not currently support that class of file, but I > believe it should. Supportin

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Howard Zhou wrote: > What is the checkoutlist mentioned below? http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC174 Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- I'm filling out the

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Howard Zhou wrote: > If a module directory in $CVSROOT doesn't have group permission, users > won't be able to checkout the module. Not true. If you set the LockDir option in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/config to some directory everyone has write permissions to, users only need read permissions in $CVSRO

Re: Symbolic Links - Background !??

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Mental wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:26:02PM +, Peter Biechele wrote: > > I want to put all the ETC dirs under CVS Control. But of course there are > > symbolic links in this directory structure. > > > > Does anybody have an idea on how to use CVS to control /etc directories > > ?? > >

Re: CVS and PreservePermissions

2000-12-21 Thread Jim Kingdon
(a question that came to me privately, response CC'd to info-cvs) > It seems that there are some problems with PreservePermissions code in CVS > 1.10 and that the feature has been completely disabled for CVS 1.11 Yup. > I'll be willing to help in order to get this working Excellent! That's al

Re: locking a file

2000-12-21 Thread Noel L Yap
If you can, try using the "reserved edit" patches available at SourceForge under project RCVS. These patches "replace" reserved locks by increasing communication among developers. In your specific situation, for example, if another user unedits someone else's edit, an email will get sent out reg

Re: Multiple developers in one work area

2000-12-21 Thread Noel L Yap
You might also want to look into the "reserved edit" patches in SourceForge under the project RCVS. These patches allow developers to communicate better so that concurrent development may proceed while minimizing the risks that developers make conflicting changes. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2

Re: Multiple developers in one work area

2000-12-21 Thread Noel L Yap
I've been trying to get our developers to do the following: Each developer works in their own working directory. When they're ready to test their work, they install it into a common area (eg doc root). To help prevent developers from stepping on each other, files are installed as group read only.

Re: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation

2000-12-21 Thread David L. Martin
From: "Paul Sander" > I agree in principle with your statements and your proposal, but I observe > two omissions: > > 1. There is a class of text file that is not mergeable, but requires newline > conversion. CVS does not currently support that class of file, but I > believe it should. Supportin

Re: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation

2000-12-21 Thread Paul Sander
I agree in principle with your statements and your proposal, but I observe two omissions: 1. There is a class of text file that is not mergeable, but requires newline conversion. CVS does not currently support that class of file, but I believe it should. Supporting that class of file would mean

Re: winCVS question

2000-12-21 Thread Robert Bresner
I've never used WinCVS, so cannot answer your question directly Saima Iqbal wrote: > The aim > is to refrain from allowing the users to tag source in the whole > tree at random. If that is indeed your goal then perhaps all you want to do is add a line to the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/taginfo fil

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-21 Thread Howard Zhou
Dale, CVSROOT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitinfo_ckuser -user=$USER Do you put the trigger script in $CVSROOT but not commited? Just curious. I don't see how -user=$USER works here. Does this script apply to CVSROOT module only? What is the checkoutlist mentioned below? Howard - Original Message

Re: winCVS question

2000-12-21 Thread Harald Kucharek
WinCVS isn't written in PERL. It's C, but uses Tcl for the shell window and the macro stuff. Harald Rob wrote: > > WinCVS is written in PERL. If it has an option to run arbitrary > UNIX commands you should be able to run /bin/sh with the shell > script as a parameter. > > If not, you can add

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-21 Thread Howard Zhou
If a module directory in $CVSROOT doesn't have group permission, users won't be able to checkout the module. Howard - Original Message - From: "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Howard Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:27 PM Sub