Re: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 08:49:34 (-0500), David D. Hagood wrote: ] > Subject: Re: $Name $ in branches > > Because I often have developers working on several different "things" at > once. For example, I may be working on signal processing, and in a > seperate branch working on UI. Using the

Re: Ideas for handling hardcoded URLs on a CVS managed website?

2001-04-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Saturday, April 21, 2001 at 00:16:59 (+0300), Georgi Kostov wrote: ] > Subject: Ideas for handling hardcoded URLs on a CVS managed website? > > Can you give me some ideas how to manage with this problem? I indended > to write a script that will replace each hardcoded link with a keyword > (

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 11:46:42 (-0700), Stephen Rasku wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Xdelta and CVS > > Greg Woods wrote: > > >It's probably important to note that if you were using SCCS "properly", > >and you were making any significant use of its full feature set, then > >you almost certainly

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RE: One file in several modules?

2001-04-20 Thread Jerry Nairn
>From: Keith Hearn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 5:05 PM >Will the files in admin get tagged every time I tag any module that has >admin as an ampersand? That could get confusing and problematic... Hmm, If you do a recursive tag in a workspace that was checked out as

Re: Correct way to add a new file with an "old" filename in CVS ??

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Ajamian
Peter Biechele wrote: > > Sometimes I experience the following problem: > > I have deleted a file from CVS by using "rm file" and " cvs rm file". > This file is in the attic now. (Lets call it "file") > Then I want to add a new file with the SAME NAME: > "cp Somewhere/file file" > "cvs add fil

RE: One file in several modules?

2001-04-20 Thread Keith Hearn
Jerry, This sounds like a pretty good solution. How does with work with tagging? Will the files in admin get tagged every time I tag any module that has admin as an ampersand? That could get confusing and problematic... But then, *not* tagging them would also cause problems... *sigh* Keith

extracting log information for branch changes?

2001-04-20 Thread Teala Spitzbarth
Hi folks, Is there a straightforward way with 'cvs log' to select only changes that have been made on a branch? I mean where 'selected revisions' would only be greater than 0 if the file in question actually has a branch'd revision (eg 2.4.2.1) I have tried using all the various permutations of

Re: One file in several modules?

2001-04-20 Thread David Dunbar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Keith Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Info-Cvs List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: One file in several modules? > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:01:23 -0700 > > The project for which I'm the release engineer has code broken into several > CVS modules, based

RE: One file in several modules?

2001-04-20 Thread Jerry Nairn
>From: Keith Hearn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:01 PM >difficulty. Each module contains a Makefile.include file which contains >various rule & variable definitions that are used by most of the other >Makefiles. In a similar situation, I had to use ampersand modules

One file in several modules?

2001-04-20 Thread Keith Hearn
The project for which I'm the release engineer has code broken into several CVS modules, based on functionality. This works fine, but there is one difficulty. Each module contains a Makefile.include file which contains various rule & variable definitions that are used by most of the other Makefil

Ideas for handling hardcoded URLs on a CVS managed website?

2001-04-20 Thread Georgi Kostov
We just started developing a website and we want to use CVS to make our life easier. There are several developers here and we want to give each one a "sandbox" (devel1.site.com, devel2.site.com etc) so we can take full advantage of CVS. There is also a site called prod.site.com to which we'll

Re: Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:05:59PM +0100, Nigel Morse wrote: > So why is it called checkout? It's more of a copyout or retrieve coz it > doesn't actually checkout anything It's historical. The expressions "check out" and "check in" originated in systems with reserved checkouts, like RCS (by

Re: directory addition

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:40:58AM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: > Eric Siegerman writes: > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:29:26PM +0200, Matthias Kranz wrote: > > > Usage: cvs update [-APdflRp] [-k kopt] [-r rev|-D date] [-j rev] > > > [-I ign] [-W spec] [files...] > > > -d Build director

Re: applying astyle on commit

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:47:01PM +0200, Maarten de Boer wrote: > Ok, I have a script which I call from the commitinfo file, that applies > astyle [but] > The user that commited the file, still has the unformatted revision on > his machine > > Is there a (server-side) way to force response to cli

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen Rasku
Greg Woods wrote: >It's probably important to note that if you were using SCCS "properly", >and you were making any significant use of its full feature set, then >you almost certainly lost important history information during the >conversion (unless you used an unpublished conversion process -- >

Re: Merging from one branch to another

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
ful (say some hard-to-isolate bug creeps in, and you really *really* want to get back the code base as of three merges ago to help track it down). In a situation like yours, I'd probably just keep adding tags, not moving them, like this (the last merge was on Apr 18; we're doing this o

Re: Passwd file

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Ajamian
Nigel Morse wrote: > > I've set up CVS for remote repository, and I can login using a system user > account (i.e. my own) but I want to use separate passwords and have CVS run > as a common user so I can tighten permissions (more to prevent accidental > deletation). > > I created a $CVSROOT/CVSR

Re: a question about wincvs

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Ajamian
> Wang Liheng wrote: > > Dear sir or Madam, > I am an administrator of CVS .We use WINCVS1.2 for client and Rad Hat > Linux6.2 for server, and setup the server for connection with pserver > and password authentication. > In our company, i need to creat checkout-only users who can only > checkout

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 08:23:24 (-0700), Stephen Rasku wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Xdelta and CVS > > I would agree with this. Unfortunately the network interface to CVS is only one facet of a CVS repository, and there are several subtle interdependencies between RCS and that protocol. One o

Re: rdiff without -c option

2001-04-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:03:53PM +0530, Kudiyarasan wrote: > Thanks for your reply . And I need difference between the versions > "without Working Copy " . Do you mean that you want the difference between two checked-in revisions, instead of between one revision and your sandbox? If so,

RE: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 10:51:21 (-0400), Laird J. Nelson wrote: ] > Subject: RE: Xdelta and CVS > > Hi, Greg; would that not violate the list of essential properties that > define what CVS is? did you not read what I wrote? -- Gre

Re: sccs2rcs y2k patch

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Jeff Dubrule writes: > > SCCS uses 2-digit years, and sccs2rcs copes with this by adding a 19 > to the front of the year. > > This patch makes years >= xx60 into 19xx, and years < xx60 to 20xx. A similar change has already been applied. -Larry Jones I suppose if I had two X chromosomes, I'd f

sccs2rcs y2k patch

2001-04-20 Thread Jeff Dubrule
SCCS uses 2-digit years, and sccs2rcs copes with this by adding a 19 to the front of the year. This patch makes years >= xx60 into 19xx, and years < xx60 to 20xx. Enjoy! -jeff --- /usr/lib/cvs/contrib/sccs2rcs Wed Jul 12 07:34:39 2000 +++ /home/igor/bin/sccs2rcs Fri Apr 20 12:40:53 2

RE: Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread Nigel Morse
Like I said a rhetorical question ;) cheers Nigel ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread David H. Thornley
Nigel Morse wrote: > > So why is it called checkout? It's more of a copyout or retrieve coz it > doesn't actually checkout anything > Because in CVS the checkout is what gives you the ability to check in? It copies out the data and also puts the necessary metadata in the CVS directories.

Re: applying astyle on commit

2001-04-20 Thread Maarten de Boer
David Fuller wrote: > From cvs help: > The commitinfo file defines programs to execute whenever cvs commit is > about to execute. These programs are used for pre-commit checking to > verify that the modified, added and removed files are really ready to be > committed. This could be used, for ins

Re: Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Nigel Morse writes: > > So why is it called checkout? It's more of a copyout or retrieve coz it > doesn't actually checkout anything Feel free to use the synonym "get" if it makes you feel better. :-) -Larry Jones I hate being good. -- Calvin _

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-20 Thread Stephen Rasku
Greg Woods wrote: > >[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 15:47:14 (-0500), David H. Thornley wrote: ] > >> Um, what's so sacred about RCS file format? I realize that file >> formats are to be changed only with caution, but since the entire >> functionality is internalized into CVS (as of 1.10, I be

RE: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-20 Thread Laird J. Nelson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Greg A. Woods > At one point back in the not so distant history of CVS (i.e. prior to > RCS and diff integration) this kind of "replacement" of RCS would have > been relatively easy (not trivial -- I

Re: Correct way to add a new file with an "old" filename in CVS ??

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Biechele
I tried it again on different files and this time it worked. The times it DID NOT work I got errors from the file system like: "NFS Error: Stale File handle ..." After this message everything with this file seems to be screwed up. So it seems to be a problem with the NFS System Does any

Re: Correct way to add a new file with an "old" filename in CVS ??

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Peter Biechele writes: > > The times it DID NOT work I got errors from the file system like: > > "NFS Error: Stale File handle ..." > > After this message everything with this file seems to be screwed up. So it > seems to be a problem with the NFS System Exactly. That has nothing whatso

Re: how can I access a repository from Nt client on a AIX server

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Jo Bosman writes: > > i'm using cvs and i want to access a repository on an Aix server, is it > possible and which type of remote connection must i use Yes, it's possible, and you can use whatever type of connection you want (subject to limitations of your local environment). See the manual:

RE: Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread Nigel Morse
So why is it called checkout? It's more of a copyout or retrieve coz it doesn't actually checkout anything (it's a rhetorical question before people shout at me) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 April 2001 15:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: directory addition

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Laird J. Nelson writes: > > Oh, come on. Normally I'm all for succinctness, but this is downright > silly as an answer to the original question. If your objection is the > length of the message, how about: > > -d Include empty directories in update. > > ...which is shorter than the origina

Re: Correct way to add a new file with an "old" filename in CVS ??

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Peter Biechele writes: > > I have deleted a file from CVS by using "rm file" and " cvs rm file". > This file is in the attic now. (Lets call it "file") > Then I want to add a new file with the SAME NAME: > "cp Somewhere/file file" > "cvs add file" > "cvs ci file" > > But this does not work, b

Re: Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
JavaSoft writes: > > If i can retrieve new datas from server to local using update why i need check out >??? > If i can put new datas from local to server using update why i need commit ??? > so what the diffrent between UPDATE and Checkout/Commit Checkout is used to get the initial cop

RE: directory addition

2001-04-20 Thread Laird J. Nelson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > How about reading the manual to learn what the commands and options do > and just using the Usage messages to refresh your memory. Oh, come on. Normally I'm all for succinctness, but this is downright silly as an answer to the original que

Re: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-20 Thread David D. Hagood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (CVS-II Discussion Mailing List) wrote: > Huh? Why doesn't the $Author keyword (part of $Id, BTW), work for you > then? Because I often have developers working on several different "things" at once. For example, I may be working on signal processing, and in a seperate branch

Re: UCE Complaint (Re: applying astyle on commit)

2001-04-20 Thread Chris Fogarty
filter should be fixedit grabbed a hotmail address and auto respondedmy appologies At 08:58 AM 4/20/2001 +0200, Harald Kucharek wrote: >Eric Siegerman wrote: > > > > Then may I suggest that you unsubscribe from [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > and not spam all of *us* with these bounce message

Re: Merging from one branch to another

2001-04-20 Thread David Fuller
Remember, when merging branches like this CVS has to work its way (through the diffs) back to the branch point, and then up the new branch. Even though the files look the same, CVS keeps no information stating that the versions can be directly diff'd. You will often get these pseudo-conflicts as

Re: Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:56:16AM +, JavaSoft wrote: > I wanna ask .. > If i can retrieve new datas from server to local using update why i > need check out ??? If i can put new datas from local to server > using update why i need commit ??? so what the diffrent between > UPDATE and Checko

Correct way to add a new file with an "old" filename in CVS ??

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Biechele
Sometimes I experience the following problem: I have deleted a file from CVS by using "rm file" and " cvs rm file". This file is in the attic now. (Lets call it "file") Then I want to add a new file with the SAME NAME: "cp Somewhere/file file" "cvs add file" "cvs ci file" But this does not wo

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-20 Thread Maarten de Boer
David Thornley wrote: > CVS exists to allow concurrent development involving incremental > changes to files. Is this useful on the analysis data? It is not concurrence what we need here, just revision tracking, and yes, the analysis data is pretty incremental, and linearly structured. What we ma

how can I access a repository from Nt client on a AIX server

2001-04-20 Thread Jo Bosman
hi, i'm using cvs and i want to access a repository on an Aix server, is it possible and which type of remote connection must i use - .rhosts ( where does this file have to be created, wich directory on the server) - inetd.conf is edited as well as services, but he cannot find the ho

Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread JavaSoft
I wanna ask .. If i can retrieve new datas from server to local using update why i need check out ??? If i can put new datas from local to server using update why i need commit ??? so what the diffrent between UPDATE and Checkout/Commit sorry if the question too basicly but i really NEW

Two parallel versions, the above like a patch

2001-04-20 Thread gcs
Hello, I am not that new with CVS, but I would like to know if it is possible or not. So, I would like to work on a project, which would be a 'basic version'. Anyone can checkout it, modify, commit etc. Above this would be a patch like version, which adds some kind of modifications, thus provide

Re: checkout with -D resurrects deleted files

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Eric Siegerman writes: > > Says: > $ cvs update > cvs update: Updating . > RCS file: /home/erics/t2/Repos/p/Attic/foo,v > retrieving revision 1.1 > retrieving revision 1.2 > Merging differences between 1.1 and 1.2 into foo > foo already contains the diffe

Re: not able to see the messages in the group..

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
mm rao writes: > > I subsribed to this group. But my new messages are not > showing in the yahoo groups( inf-cvs)? > > What could be the reason. That yahoo groups isn't archiving the group any more. -Larry Jones I'll be a hulking, surly teen-ager before you know it!! -- Calvin __

Re: Passwd file

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Nigel Morse writes: > > I'd just assumed that I had the latest > version but couldn't check coz "cvs version" didn't work!! In that case, you can use "cvs -v" to find out the (client's) version. (You have to run the same command on the server machine to find out its version, which is why the ver

Re: directory addition

2001-04-20 Thread Larry Jones
Eric Siegerman writes: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:29:26PM +0200, Matthias Kranz wrote: > > Usage: cvs update [-APdflRp] [-k kopt] [-r rev|-D date] [-j rev] > > [-I ign] [-W spec] [files...] > > -d Build directories, like checkout does. > > Which is pretty unclear. You have to alrea