Database Repository

2001-05-04 Thread Matt Smith
Is there a way/hack/tool where you can use a database as a repository for CVS? It is just an idle thought at the moment, but we are thinking of using CVS as the engine for a CMS. I'm not sure if it could work, or even if it is such a good idea... any experience? Matt Smith [EMAIL

Re: cvs repository in a bad state, and cvs seg faults on export

2001-05-04 Thread Stockinger, Frank
Hello, We are having problems with one of our working areas. The developer told me ... Another symptom is that cvs will seg fault when I try to export this project. It progresses the export until it gets to the directory containing the files in question, at which point it seg faults. This

CVS Integration with DOORS

2001-05-04 Thread Vicente Adán
Hi all We are planning to use CVS in our dev. system, but are in a doubt. We use DOORS as requirement´s manage tool and i would like to know if you know about any utility implemented with DXL to connect both tools. DOORS is currently running on an AIX system but we work with many different

RE: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-04 Thread USENBINZ
CVS currently uses getspnam/getpwnam and crypt for system authentication. For our environment I've slightly modified server.c to use Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) instead (ie. replace getpwnam/crypt with pam_authenticate). Using pam_unix.so alone basically does the same thing

Re: Undo a branch

2001-05-04 Thread Stephen Rasku
Jerry Nairn wrote: Hi, A colleague is writing a branch creation script which will make a branch point tag name and a branch name based on the purpose of the branch following a set of conventions, tag the branch point, and create the branch. It all looks pretty good, but he asked me today

Re: cvs repository in a bad state, and cvs seg faults on export

2001-05-04 Thread Larry Jones
Stockinger, Frank writes: We do have a similar problem with cvs export in cvs 1.11. BTW, it does not occur with cvs 1.10.8. As I tracked down, the problem is in cvs checkout.c in the function 'build_one_dir' For exporting the function isfile checks whether there is a CVS directory. But, if

Re: Undo a branch

2001-05-04 Thread David Fuller
See the CVS manual on Tagging. http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_4.html#SEC51 Example from the manual of deleting tag rel-0-4 from file tc: cvs rtag -d rel-0-4 tc -- David F. Jerry Nairn wrote: Hi, A colleague is writing a branch creation script which will make a branch point tag name

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-04 Thread Laine Stump
David L. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When a new RCS file is created as a result of cvs import, the RCS archive's default branch is 1.1.1. When/If the first local modification is committed, the default branch becomes blank (= the trunk). See the output of cvs log in the Branch: field.

WinCVS and CVS on HPux

2001-05-04 Thread Santimore, Matt
Hi all, First time with CVS , First time on the list. Have read the manual , Twice... I'm having a problem .. 1. I just checked in a whole slew of stuff into a Directory called $CVSROOT/Devel/midclient. Using WinCVS worked great. 2. Now when I try to check out the same dir or

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, May 4, 2001 at 00:58:52 (-0500), David L. Martin wrote: ] Subject: Re: importing vendor branches To avoid this mess, you might consider moving your development from the trunk to a branch. You'd be guaranteed that a vendor import would not affect the contents of your development

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2001-05-04 Thread Gary Moore
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Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , May 4, 2001 at 12:22:16 (-0400), Laine Stump wrote: ] Subject: Re: importing vendor branches Another way to fix this is to just force a null commit (new revision, but 0 lines changed) on the trunk of each new file right after it is initially imported. That works too, but potentially

RE: Undo a branch

2001-05-04 Thread Jerry Nairn
From: Stephen Rasku [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:30 AM What is the result that he wants after undoing a branch? If he wants to continue as if he never created the branch, he can just abandon the branch and continue development on the parent branch as if nothing has

CVS: retrieving an old version from Attic

2001-05-04 Thread Fabrice Tchakountio
All - I recently moved files in a working copy from some directory src/sims/ to a new directory junk/sims. However I omitted to copy files from the repository itself. Thus, I lost the revision history in the new location. Is there a clean way to restore the revision history in the new directory

RE: WinCVS and CVS on HPux

2001-05-04 Thread Jerry Nairn
From: Santimore, Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:18 AM several times.. closed and restarted the app. loggedin as yu09 and still it is trying to check out the module as cvsad. (or at least that's what I get from the above) Do you have a CVS subdirectory in

User who commited?

2001-05-04 Thread Vesa Vestman
Hi Does anybody know how to get current users username from loginfo? Is there any enviroment variable where to get that? I am using WinCvs on NT platform. Any help greatly appreciated Vesa ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MS Visual C++ Version

2001-05-04 Thread Dennis Jones
If VC 5.0 correctly loads 6.0 project files, then I guess I don't really have a problem with updating the projects, but what happens when 7.0 comes out? I do not plan to ever upgrade my VC++ beyond 5.0, and there might be other persons who are in the same boat (possibly even 4.2 users). (Does

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-04 Thread Larry Jones
Greg A. Woods writes: I still don't see the problem here. If everyone who might do a checkout reads at least the subject lines of the mail from loginfo they'll know when an import was done, and in what module, and be able to avoid doing a fresh checkout that might result in an inconsistent

Re: User who commited?

2001-05-04 Thread Larry Jones
Vesa Vestman writes: Does anybody know how to get current users username from loginfo? You can use the $USER internal variable in the loginfo file to pass that information to the script. See: http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC176 For an example, see:

Protocol error: uncounted data discarded

2001-05-04 Thread Chris Sharpe
I just upgraded by Solaris (sparc) pserver to cvs 1.11.1p1 and from a WinNT command line cvs 1.11 client, I sometimes get the following error: cvs -d $my_cvsroot -f -r -q -z3 checkout -r $my_tag $my_module Protocol error: uncounted data discarded The module is about 3000 files in size and

CVS/Tag files

2001-05-04 Thread Gary Heuston
Hello, We are having a problem with the CVS/Tag files in our staging areas. We are using an in-house frontend, and whenever we checkout a file using a tag other than HEAD (I.E 'cvs co -r current /foo/bar/file') we end up with Tag files under /foo/CVS (and any directory under that) which

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-04 Thread Rickard Parker
I want to thank the previous recent posters to this thread. Their advice came just at the time I was needing to import some third party software and also checkin in a tree of software that we developed. In particular I want to thank David Martin for his suggestion of To make update -A retrieve

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-04 Thread Laine Stump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes: Greg A. Woods writes: I still don't see the problem here. If everyone who might do a checkout reads at least the subject lines of the mail from loginfo they'll know when an import was done, and in what module, and be able to avoid doing a

Re: MS Visual C++ Version

2001-05-04 Thread Larry Jones
Jerzy Kaczorowski writes: I am also curious as to how could a project file for zlib be missing - it seems to be properly tagged so if the export was done using a release tag then it should be there, no? The release isn't made by just tarring up an export, there are specific targets in the