RE: Branch question

2001-04-24 Thread Dr. Rolf Ebert
Commit your changes on the main trunk, then move the branch points to the newly commited release number. This usually only works for a single file. There once was a tool on Molli's CVS page which helped with this kind of applying the same modification to several branches at the same time. I think

Taginfo File with absolute or relative Paths to script using $CVSROOT ??

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Biechele
I have the following taginfo file in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT: - # The taginfo file is used to control pre-tag checks. # The filter on the right is invoked with the following arguments: # # $1 -- tagname # $2 -- operation add for tag, mov for tag -F, and del for tag -d # $3 -- repository

Re: browsing repository modules

2001-04-24 Thread Jasper V Ferrer
thank you, just what i needed. i can now see the projects in my repository, i also got more than what i am looking for. i setup my modules file like this: cb -s C++-REVIEW constbhvr td -s QT tdialog now cvs co -s produces: cb C++-REVIEW constbhvr td QT tdialog what i want

Re: Rename a file

2001-04-24 Thread David Fuller
There are two ways to do this, both I believe are described in documentation. 1) copy webfile.htm to Webfile.htm on your local machine. In CVS add it, commit it, and remove the old file. You lose version history but maintain stability of any tags you may have had. 2) Physically in the

remove directories

2001-04-24 Thread Rafal Kedziorski
Hallo, what is sthe best way to remove directories in the repository. I'm using csv 1.10.7 under Linux. we can't remove directories thru cvs commando. best regards Rafal ) echtzeit AG REALITY BUSINESS berlin | san francisco Rafal Kedziorski senior software

RE: remove directories

2001-04-24 Thread Anders Truelsen
Hi Rafal, if you really want to waste the files and all trace of their very existence including history and all I'd recommend rm -r If you want to preserve the history the -P option will cause the client to prune (delete) empty directories. Adding update -P checkout -P to your .cvsrc

Re: remove directories

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Lukaschek
Hi Rafal, you may have a look at the following link http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_7.html#SEC68 It explains the removing of files from a cvs-project. Best Regards, Michael -- Dipl.-Math. Michael Lukaschek, Software Development Interzart AG 3D Commerce / Dimension 3D-Systems GmbH Phone:

Checkout with -d .

2001-04-24 Thread Sean E. Millichamp
I am seeing what appears to be an inconsistent behavior between using CVS over a network connection and using it localally. When I do a cvs checkout -d . module on a repository I experience no errors. However, when I do the same command on a remote repository I get the following error: % cvs

modules with tag/branch ?

2001-04-24 Thread David Escala
hi is there a way you can define a module (in the modules file) to always use a certain tag or branch? for instance, in the module test defined as: classes thirdpartysoft/classes test projects/test classes htmlwidgets I would like test to always contain the branch tagged v_2_0 off classes, but

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2001-04-24 Thread rnanca
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Preventing checkins to a particular branch

2001-04-24 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
Hi, I have a branch - say Project1_Branch. I need to restrict all checkins to this branch for a set of directories. How do I do that - does somebody have example scripts that can be plugged into commitinfo file. Any other ideas to implement this ? I have heard of a locking branches patch for

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2001-04-24 Thread Chuck . Irvine
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administering cvs

2001-04-24 Thread Chandra Kanakpalli
hi, i am new to cvsadministration. i have few broblems. i amtrying to provide a functionality in repository that will notify me about the commit info. I got some info from karl fogel book but was insufficient. Can any one please help meout. thanks -Chandrda

Re: Val-tags file

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
Eric Siegerman writes: Perhaps this is a dumb question, but why didn't cvs [r]tag write the val-tags entry? Because nobody ever wrote code to do that (although it does seem like a pretty obvious thing to do). -Larry Jones TIME?! I just finished the first problem! -- Calvin

Re: cvswrappers

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
Lenng, Helen writes: 1) What version of cvs/wincvs support -t/-f wrappers? That depends on your definition of support. The code has been there for a very long time, but it's buggy so it's been disabled by default since CVS 1.9.28. If you don't mind occasionally losing data from your

Re: /tmp issue with CVS

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
Kumar, Subramaniam writes: What we see is , everytime is a user uses CVS , it creates directories in /tmp on the Unix Machine which never gets deleted. This leads to /tmp getting full. Is there a config setting on CVS which will instruct it to clean up after itself ? CVS does clean up

Re: strange error -- touch: cannot change times...

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
Dean Do writes: I have a question about a strange error message while removing a file. The message came up after CVS was 'done' removing the file -- touch: cannot change times on ... CVS doesn't use touch -- that message is almost certainly coming from some local script that's running

Re: unreconised authorisation error

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
mm rao writes: cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from localhost: Usage: cvs [cvs-options] command [command-options-and-arguments] That's the error message CVS gives when you don't specify a subcommand (e.g., if you just type cvs). I have the following entry in the

Re: Taginfo File with absolute or relative Paths to script using $CVSROOT ??

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
Peter Biechele writes [about taginfo]: The problem is the absolute path of the script to be executed for each tag command. Is it possible to use relative pathnames ??? If yes, how ?? http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC176 $CVSROOT is particularly useful in this context. -Larry

Re: Checkout with -d .

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
Sean E. Millichamp writes: When I do a cvs checkout -d . module on a repository I experience no errors. However, when I do the same command on a remote repository I get the following error: This is a long-standing bug that no one has been motivated to track down and fix. i need the -d

Branch merging

2001-04-24 Thread Prakash Ranade
It may sound dumb question, even though pls. answer me. I have branch 2.2 and Main trunk, I have merged branch 2.2 on main and now all developer have checkout main copy on their module. Now, one developer who was not aware of this merge process is still working on branch 2.2 and commits to

Re: Branch question

2001-04-24 Thread Gary Granger
Across the ether fly the words of Prakash Ranade: Now, My question is the changes which I made on foo.c needs to be reflected on Main, and Branch 2.5's foo.c, without checkout - update - commit cycle. Another idea is to create a diff of the changes to foo.c, using cvs diff, then patch the

Re: modules with tag/branch ?

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
David Escala writes: is there a way you can define a module (in the modules file) to always use a certain tag or branch? Not currently, although I believe there are one or more patches floating around to allow that. -Larry Jones You can never really enjoy Sundays because in the back of

Re: administering cvs

2001-04-24 Thread Donald Sharp
What was insufficient about the book? What are you trying? What are the error messages that you are receiving? What is the code that you are using? donald On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:59:03AM -0400, Chandra Kanakpalli wrote: hi, i am new to cvsadministration. i have few broblems.

Re: unreconised authorisation error

2001-04-24 Thread mm rao
I checked this out. It's in a single line and not exceeded the length as I have checked with a longer line than this by specifieng multiple repository roots in inetd. Any thing to do with -P? What actually this is for? Or any other guesses? Do I need to install seperate RCS ( I am using

Re: unreconised authorisation error

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
mm rao writes: Any thing to do with -P? What actually this is for? I haven't a clue -- standard CVS doesn't have either -L or -P so I presume they have something to do with the patch you applied. Or any other guesses? Do I need to install seperate RCS ( I am using cvs-1.11)? No, the RCS

Re: Branch merging

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:52:56AM -0700, Prakash Ranade wrote: branch 2.2 and commits to branch 2.2 for long period of time, How can we stop his commiting to branch 2.2. Also how can we took his changes and merge back into main tree. For his commits, I don't think there is much you can do

Re: Checkout with -d .

2001-04-24 Thread Sean E. Millichamp
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Larry Jones wrote: This is a long-standing bug that no one has been motivated to track down and fix. i need the -d . option to work. Any suggestions? How are your debugging skills? ;-) Heh, pretty terrible :). But if I get out of this current time/project

Re: Repository recovery and archiving

2001-04-24 Thread schmolle
Hi Jesus, list, In short, I need the transaction capabilities of a database I got that impression. Since you are considering Oracle vs CVS, I take it cost is not a great consideration? :) How about this for a rough idea (other people can pitch in if they like): 1. Find a way to capture all

Re: unreconised authorisation error

2001-04-24 Thread mm rao
Any idea on the the max allowed length of this line? --- Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mm rao writes: Any thing to do with -P? What actually this is for? I haven't a clue -- standard CVS doesn't have either -L or -P so I presume they have something to do with the patch you

Re: unreconised authorisation error

2001-04-24 Thread David Fuller
I'm quite certain that it isn't the length of the line. I have a server running with 5 '--allow-root=...' statements. Pretty long line. My first guess would be that the client program is out of step with the server program. Remember, if you are going to patch the server then the client will

Re: /tmp issue with CVS

2001-04-24 Thread Kumar, Subramaniam
Thanks Larry for your response. The server process in our case runs on the Unix server. I thought there is only one server process serving the WinCVS client requests(corrrect me if I am wrong). Hence the server process will always be up and running. Even if a client crashes( I don't think

Converting from ext to pserver

2001-04-24 Thread David H. Thornley
I am now working on a belated move from the ext access mode over NFS to pserver. What I would like to do, if I could, is ban ext access altogether, or at least find out if it is happening so that I can stop it. Is there any way I can turn off non-pserver access, or detect it when it happens?

cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/var/lib/cvs/foo' (/var/lib/cvs/foo/#cvs.lock): Permission denied

2001-04-24 Thread Jan
Hello, Also on other requests I get different Permissions denied messages. The directories and files in /var/lib/cvs (and this directory itself) belongs to root.root and cvs is in my inetd.conf as cvspserver stream tcp nowait.400 root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver So..

Re: cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/var/lib/cvs/foo' (/var/lib/cvs/foo/#cvs.lock): Permission denied

2001-04-24 Thread David Fuller
What are the read/write permissions on those folders/directories. I notice you are running pserver. CVS actually wants to use the permission of the user who logs in, not root. Maybe you need to revisit your permissions. Perhaps changing the group to users and making them group writable. --

WinCVS and ssh - Here's how to configure it.

2001-04-24 Thread Patrick Salsbury
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:32:05PM -, Jim Knoll wrote: Patrick, I found your post about problems setting up WinCVS and ssh, and was wondering if you found a solution. I think I am having a similar problem with WinCVS 1.2 on NT4 and cvs 1.11 on FreeBSD4.2. I can connect without a

Re: Converting from ext to pserver

2001-04-24 Thread David D. Hagood
David H. Thornley wrote: Is there any way I can turn off non-pserver access, or detect it when it happens? What about marking the repository as not exported in your exports file? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Converting from ext to pserver

2001-04-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:01:53PM -0500, David D. Hagood wrote: David H. Thornley wrote: Is there any way I can turn off non-pserver access, or detect it when it happens? What about marking the repository as not exported in your exports file? Or if it's on a filesystem that must be

re: Commit Fail (fixed)

2001-04-24 Thread John Temple
Thank You Dashamir and Rob it turns out that I had to setup my users in a different way within WindowsNT to control access alittle more stricktly. Essentialy there were to many different user names used at a time confusing the heck out of RCS and CVS. Don't ask me to explain how but it worked

Re: /tmp issue with CVS

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
Kumar, Subramaniam writes: The server process in our case runs on the Unix server. I thought there is only one server process serving the WinCVS client requests(corrrect me if I am wrong). Hence the server process will always be up and running. No, inetd starts a separate server process for

Re: unreconised authorisation error

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
mm rao writes: Any idea on the the max allowed length of this line? It varies depending on the particular inetd implementation. Some have a limit on the maximum number of parameters, some have a limit on the total length of the line, some have both, some have none. Check your inetd man

Re: cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/var/lib/cvs/foo' (/var/lib/cvs/foo/#cvs.lock): Permission denied

2001-04-24 Thread Larry Jones
Jan writes: Also on other requests I get different Permissions denied messages. The directories and files in /var/lib/cvs (and this directory itself) belongs to root.root and cvs is in my inetd.conf as cvspserver stream tcp nowait.400 root/usr/sbin/tcpd

waiting for [user]'s lock

2001-04-24 Thread Stephen Adkins
Hi, I am not new to source control, but I am new to CVS. I set up my CVS according to a tutorial at http://www.working-dogs.com/docs/cvs.htma I started using it and everything seemed OK. However, I have gotten myself in a bind where CVS will not release some locks. I get the dreaded

Re: Taginfo File with absolute or relative Paths to script using $CVSROOT ??

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Biechele
Of course you can use CVSROOT, but then you have to know if you have CVSROOT set to :ext:server:/root/cvsroot or maybe only /dir/cvsroot or whatever. That means, I can not write $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/startScript. I thought there might be a nice way to extract JUST the (local) path to the

rcsplot - graphical RCS/CVS archive plotter

2001-04-24 Thread Ian Gilmour
As an exercise in teaching myself a bit of perl, and trying to come up with something useful, I've come up with a script that generates graphical plots of RCS archive activity. It also handles hierarchies of archive directories, so it should work fine with CVS (although I haven't used it much in

Rename a file

2001-04-24 Thread FORTINI Massimiliano
Hi, my name is Massimiliano and I'm cvs-administrator into my company. I have a question. If I would rename a file under cvs control, i.e from webfile.htm to Webfile.htm, how could I do it?. Tahnkx in advance Massimiliano Fortini Stai partendo per una vacanza? Scopri