listing all modules

2001-03-21 Thread Keith Luu
Hi, Does anyone know if listing of modules on your sever works for wincvs1.2? thanks, Keith __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___

Re: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

2001-03-21 Thread Laine Stump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes: Laine Stump writes: I'm glad this message came by again - I just did an import and saw the that the behavior described by Larry below did not occur. Nothing is marked for deletion by CVS either during the import or during execution of the

CVS import failed

2001-03-21 Thread Fitzgerald, AJ
Title: CVS import failed When trying to import a single directory along with its file contents (html, gifs, etc.) I receive the following error message. /tmp/cvsAAAFPEqt_ 5 lines, 258 characters I www-skandia-de/reg/login.html.bak I www-skandia-de/reg_old/index_0.htm.bak

Re: Binary file problem, large gz file (see also 23619)

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We add a gz file whose size is 28054812 with "cvs add -kb file.gz". We then delete the local file, and enter "cvs update file.gz". This produces the message "cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server", and a bad file whose size is 28048345. If we make a new gz

Re: info without working copy

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Largent, Jim writes: Is there some trick to getting information similar to cvs log without a working copy? Not that I know of. There should be an rlog command to do that, but it's never been implemented. (There used to be an rlog command that did something

Re: How to restrict specific developers to checkin files in main trunk?

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Kudiyarasan wrote: Hi , Now my position is --All developers can check in files in main trunk except few . And that few developers can only check in files in branch trunk , they are not allowed to check in files in main trunk . i.e how can I restrict main trunk but branch trunk ? .

Re: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Noel L Yap wrote: I'd also want to see documentation updates (to cvs.texinfo) before I'd check this in. It looks like cvs.texinfo is easy enough to change, but can you tell me how I can test those changes? $ cd doc $ make info You know, if you

Re: How to restrict ?

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
srikrishnan wrote: I would like to restrict some group of users only to access the branch and not the main trunk and vice versa. how can i achieve this. Please help me. I need it badly. I think there are some patches floating around which allow this. Try searching the mail archives and/or

Re: CVS import failed

2001-03-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:18:36AM -0500, Fitzgerald, AJ wrote: When trying to import a single directory along with its file contents (html, gifs, etc.) I receive the following error message. [...] unable to write, file a0219.html No space left on device And I know

Microsoft VSS = CVS

2001-03-21 Thread Dave Cridland
Title: Microsoft VSS = CVS I've read the information I could find in the archives, but there's one question left unanswered in my tiny little brain...: http://www.laine.org/cvs/vss2cvs/ gives much information and scripts, but doesn't answer the one question I could really do with before

Re: CVS command hangs with commit

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
David Kornmann wrote: I am experiencing some connection problem with our cvs server. Basically cvs is hanging everytime I execute and update, commit, add command. Whether I am connecting to the server with pserver of ssh does not matter, the command is always hanging. If I attempt to

Re: commit to branch

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Martin Entlicher wrote: Yes, thanks for the replies. I know, that I can do a merge on the branch with the HEAD. But I thought, that "cvs ci -r .." makes it simpler. I want to have two exactly the same revisions on the main trunk and on the branch. We have branched stable version of our

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in the repository but not in the working directory. I want to update, in one step, only the files that I have checkout. Don't pass '-d' to update? Derek -- Derek Price CVS

need scripts to interface to CVS

2001-03-21 Thread Kiley, Paul [OCDUS]
Title: need scripts to interface to CVS Hello everyone- I need to script files to help my developers interface with CVS. My project involves 20 developers all on one LAN, and everyone will be running the scripts from Unix/linux-ish command line. For each developer to get a copy of the

Re: Another time question

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Annette Waters writes: Could you please explain how the time is used by CVS. Is it used to determine if a file has changed? Or, does it always look at the contents of the files to determine changes? CVS looks at the timestamp first; if it hasn't changed, then CVS

Re: Binary for Digital Unix V4.0D / Tru64 Unix

2001-03-21 Thread Gary Heuston
you may be able to find an older version on the compaq.com ftp site, but why not upgrade to 1.11? We built 1.11 on a 4.0D platform and had zero problems. We got our version from the cvshome.org site. Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find a CVS binary (client

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:54:18PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in the repository but not in the working directory. I want to update, in one step, only the files that I have checkout. Don't

Re: commit to branch

2001-03-21 Thread Stephen Rasku
You can also use the "-p" option. To give the same version to a branch to what is on the trunk: cvs update -r branch cvs update -A -p file file cvs ci You have to repeat the middle step for each file you need to check in. Unfortunately, if you have a lot of

Re: Controlling options on cvs commands

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
irina sturm wrote: Hi everyone, A second question: is it possible to disallow use of certain options with cvs commands? I know of the possibility to impose options through .cvsrc, but what I really need is to say, for example, that "cvs admin" should never be used with option -d, or

Re: cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied Error

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Richard Otruba wrote: repository (i.e. commit, tag, etc.) gives the "can't chdir..." error specified in the subject line. The original implementer of CVS is no longer http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC182 for the answer to this *VERY* frequently asked question. CVSHome.org

cvs imports slow to a crawl

2001-03-21 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Hi all, I use cvs import regularly on many of my modules because I get versions of these modules that aren't under CVS control. Anyway, usually these are reasonably fast. However, recently they have slowed to a crawl. I'm running cvs import on the same machine where the repository is, so

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:54:18PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in the repository but not in the working directory. I want to update, in one step, only the files that

Re: What is LOCK and how to live with it?

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Serge Smirnov wrote: -- SarcinaAnnotation.xls new revision: 1.18; previous revision: 1.17 cvs [commit aborted]: could not open lock file `/seq/software/src/Annotation/cvsroot/website/annotatorWeb/docs/,SarcinaAnnotation.xls,': File exists That lock file shouldn't be there. Search the

RE: CVS import failed

2001-03-21 Thread Jerry Nairn
Title: RE: CVS import failed There is plenty of space left where? The problem could be your /tmp file system, the /tmp file system on the server if you aren't using a local repository, or the filesystem of the repository. I may have missed a possibility, like a LOCKDIR on the server, but

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread David H. Thornley
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:54:18PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in the repository but not in the working directory. I want to

Re: Microsoft VSS = CVS

2001-03-21 Thread Laine Stump
Dave Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any patches or techniques for CVS similar to the sharing functionality in VSS? You can do something similar to sharing *entire directories*, via specifying lines in the file CVSROOT/modules (look up the "modules" file under "CVS Administrative

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
"David H. Thornley" wrote: "Derek R. Price" wrote: Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:54:18PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in the repository but not in the working

Re: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

2001-03-21 Thread Larry Jones
Laine Stump writes: This was the first import in about 6 months. All the differences in files, and new files, were merged correctly. However, your message had indicated that file deletions would also be marked when I did the merge; this was not the case. bash-2.02$ echo file1 file1

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 03:34:17PM -0600, David H. Thornley wrote: "Derek R. Price" wrote: Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:54:18PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Rui Cordeiro wrote: Is there any option to tell to the cvs update to ignore the files that are in

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread Larry Jones
Eric Siegerman writes: That'll prevent fetching of un-checked-out directories, but I know of no way to prevent the fetching of un-checked-out files within a directory that *is* checked out. Create CVS/Entries.Static like CVS does when you only checkout some of the files in a directory.

RE: Binary for Digital Unix V4.0D / Tru64 Unix

2001-03-21 Thread Arthur . Barrett
Thanks for your help, I now have the binary! The particular machine is in a bit of a state which prevents compilation of the code. I couldnt find a Digital Unix build on either cvshome.org or compaq.com, so this was may next (last?) recourse. Once again, thanks, Arthur Barrett

Re: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-21 Thread Noel L Yap
My free time has run out again. The stuff I still need to get done are: 1. Update the documentation (since you volunteered and I don't have the necessary tools, I'll let you debug it :-) 2. Create regression tests. I still need a volunteer for this. I'll gladly communicate req's to such a

RE: reserved lock and other patches

2001-03-21 Thread Chris Cameron
Sorry about the reply format M$ won't let me change to a preferable format, but let's not go there! I've been off the air for a few weeks and have just caught up! When I incorporated Noel's edit patches into our CVS source (1.10.7) I modified sanity.sh so that it wouldn't choke on the new

Re: Microsoft VSS = CVS

2001-03-21 Thread Jon Miner
* Laine Stump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010321 15:48]: There is no CVS equivalent to VSS' sharing of individual repository files into multiple places in the work directory, though. Well, not natively in CVS, but if you're running it on a server that supports _symlinks_, you can approxmate that

Re: Reimporting vendor projects where items have been deleted

2001-03-21 Thread Laine Stump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes: [ example of cvs import followed by merge auto-deleting files ] That's great, but your example doesn't use the tags normally suggested in the results of imports, eg "-j NET:yesterday -j NET" (which in this case wouldn't work anyway because it had been

Re: Microsoft VSS = CVS

2001-03-21 Thread Jon Miner
* Laine Stump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010322 00:27]: ...until one day when the symlinked file magically becomes corrupted. Been there, done that. That's why I said it isn't for the faint-of-heart. Just takes a bit of care, and since I only symlink files that I'm the only (usual) updater for, it