Merging different types of files

2001-07-04 Thread Reinstein, Shlomo
Hi, My CVS project contains two types of files: Text files (source code), and binary files. The text files contain CVS keywords in them (e.g. $Header$), and in general we're interested in the keyword substitution feature for the text files. However, the binary files are stored in the repository

Two CVS Servers

2001-07-04 Thread David Harrigan
Hiya, I work as a developer for a company that uses CVS extensively (it's brill!), and I wish to bring some work home with me (a glutten for punishment you may say). I've setup CVS at home on my linux box, and I have a laptop that I use at work which I use to develop and update files from the

why not run cvspserver as a standalone server?

2001-07-04 Thread kamesh jayachandran
Hai all, I got struck with my colleague who asked why to run cvspserver as inetd server instead of standalone server? please throw some light on this with regards kamesh jayachandran -- ... and don't ask me about the extraneous parenthesis. I bet some LISP programmer felt alone and

RE: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

2001-07-04 Thread Hugi Thordarson
Hi Eric, et al. I did some searching on Google and found a lot of information on this issue. CVS reads each byte in a file as a character, so it can't handle double-byte encodings, including Unicode UTF-16, which my editor automatically promotes documents to when double-byte characters are

Re: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

2001-07-04 Thread Harald Kucharek
Hugi Thordarson wrote: Hi Eric, et al. I did some searching on Google and found a lot of information on this issue. CVS reads each byte in a file as a character, so it can't handle double-byte encodings, including Unicode UTF-16, which my editor automatically promotes documents to when

system users vs cvs specific users?

2001-07-04 Thread kamesh jayachandran
Hai all, I am creating a regular system account with the name say project1 in the system with the useradd command.It creates a regular user called project1 and group called project1 on the system Now I create many cvs specific users associated with the username project1 using the cvsadmin

RE: Re: maybe a bug in VMS cvs-client ?

2001-07-04 Thread Martin Eismann
Martin Eismann wrote: Hi @ all! Martin Eismann wrote: Hello ! After importing my Pascal-sources from OpenVMS to a remote repositoy (on SuSE Linux 7.0; Kernel 2.4.5; CVS 1.11.1) i have troubles in cvs checkout these source on OpenVMS 7.3

Re: Determining TAGs without a sandbox?

2001-07-04 Thread Karl-Heinz Marbaise
Hi there, How do I determine whether or not a tag exists within a specific file? Is there some command to make cvs list all the available tags for a specific without using a sandbox? Have you ever tried to use cvs hi -T ? Or in combination with -n e.g. cvs hi -nModuleName -T ? --

RE: Determining TAGs without a sandbox?

2001-07-04 Thread Alleman, Lowell
I tried that but I'm getting a No records selected message from CVS. I get this message if I do any of the following: cvs history -T cvs history -n 7200HHC -T cvs history -n 7200HHC/DOSEMU/Routes/ts01 -T If I do just plain cvs history -n 7200HHC then I get

cvs diff not showing new files in working directory

2001-07-04 Thread Fred Forester
Hi all, I use cvs on sourceforge and cvs diff shows new files as ? However cvs on my home machine does not show any new files in the working directory. home runs cvs 1.10.7 on RH6.2 Thanx Fred ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

import

2001-07-04 Thread kamesh jayachandran
Hai all, Till now what I have done is before starting the project I simply started with the directory structure and few files that my project may involve and imported the project without knowing the real meaning of import. Recently I read through kfogel's article on cvs. Now I understood the

Re: Determining TAGs without a sandbox?

2001-07-04 Thread Karl-Heinz Marbaise
I tried that but I'm getting a No records selected message from CVS. I get this message if I do any of the following: cvs history -T cvs history -n 7200HHC -T cvs history -n 7200HHC/DOSEMU/Routes/ts01 -T If I do just plain cvs history -n 7200HHC then I

Re: Determining TAGs without a sandbox?

2001-07-04 Thread Larry Jones
Alleman, Lowell writes: How do I determine whether or not a tag exists within a specific file? Is there some command to make cvs list all the available tags for a specific without using a sandbox? cvs rlog (with -h if you don't want to see all the log messages). If you do have a sandbox,

Re: CVS help

2001-07-04 Thread Larry Jones
irwin writes: i have cvs repository i have also defined my writers and readers file but i want directory wise security how do i achive it because i have number of projects so i dont want other project users to access my project othere than read if i have to give them access please kindly

Re: why not run cvspserver as a standalone server?

2001-07-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 4, 2001 at 14:50:26 (+0530), kamesh jayachandran wrote: ] Subject: why not run cvspserver as a standalone server? I got struck with my colleague who asked why to run cvspserver as inetd server instead of standalone server? please throw some light on this Why run

Re: cvs diff not showing new files in working directory

2001-07-04 Thread Larry Jones
Fred Forester writes: I use cvs on sourceforge and cvs diff shows new files as ? However cvs on my home machine does not show any new files in the working directory. That's probably just a difference between local mode and client/server mode. If you want, you can use client/server

repository policy

2001-07-04 Thread Felix von Delius
I have a discussion with our team here weather it is better to use one repository for the whole company and have a deeper structure or in contrast to this allow several repositories? Our current CVS grew up to 2GB within a year and we have 30-50 actively developed (sub)projects on it

Re: system users vs cvs specific users?

2001-07-04 Thread Larry Jones
kamesh jayachandran writes: My question is ,Is there cvs specific access control to the cvs specific users Not in standard CVS, although I think there are unofficial patches running around that add that capability. -Larry Jones Wh. -- Calvin

Re: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

2001-07-04 Thread Larry Jones
Harald Kucharek writes: Q: Are there any plans for a Unicode-capable CVS? Not that I know of. Are there any plans for a Unicode-capable RCS? -Larry Jones It's a Doofus Ignoramus! Our hero slowly reaches for his stun blaster! -- Calvin ___

Re: why not run cvspserver as a standalone server?

2001-07-04 Thread Larry Jones
kamesh jayachandran writes: I got struck with my colleague who asked why to run cvspserver as inetd server instead of standalone server? Because CVS doesn't contain standalone server code. -Larry Jones It works on the same principle as electroshock therapy. -- Calvin

RE: Two CVS Servers

2001-07-04 Thread Gianni Mariani
Short answer - don't do it. The CVS repository contains all the history about your project. If you set up a duplicate CVS server then it needs to have an exact copy of the history of what is in the original CVS server *ALL THE TIME* hence there is no way you can make a duplicate CVS server,

Re: Merging different types of files

2001-07-04 Thread John Minnihan
Define the file handling in cvswrappers, such that the expansion mode is appropriately applied on a per file basis rather than wholesale via a command line switch. This technique is discussed in many places (probably this list archive for starters). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and in general

RE: Determining TAGs without a sandbox?

2001-07-04 Thread Alleman, Lowell
I think so. If I do just cvs history I get a buch of lines. So something is in there... (CVSROOT/history has 78093 bytes and is set to mode 0666) Anything else to look for? -Original Message- From: Karl-Heinz Marbaise [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001

Re: Two CVS Servers

2001-07-04 Thread John Minnihan
The modem connection is so slow as to make occasional updates / checkins impractical? Recall that you needn't be attached (online) to work on your sources - only to engage the remote repository. So long as you have two distinct repositories, no amount of importing updating will sync the

Re: why not run cvspserver as a standalone server?

2001-07-04 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 14:50 +0530, kamesh jayachandran wrote: I got struck with my colleague who asked why to run cvspserver as inetd server instead of standalone server? please throw some light on this Excuse me, but what's your *real* question? See

Re: (bug?) cvs returning wrong exit status, depending on # of TAGs?

2001-07-04 Thread Larry Jones
Alleman, Lowell writes: I wrote a bash script that will retrieve a specified version/tag of a CVS file without using a sandbox. I added the option of falling back to the HEAD tag when the requested version was not available (by checking to see if cvs checkout was successful (0) or not.)

RE: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

2001-07-04 Thread Gianni Mariani
CVS should handle Unicode as utf-8. I can't think of any reason why it would not. Unicode (as utf-16) is probably a waste of time to support as anything but binary. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Jones Sent: Wednesday, July 04,

RE: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

2001-07-04 Thread Gianni Mariani
OK - it bugged me, I tried it. So I created a new repository, added a file with Eth in both latin-1 and utf-8 and viola. mkdir testrep cd testrep cvs -d `pwd` init setenv CVSROOT `pwd` cd .. mkdir test cvs import test v1 s1 cvs co test echo character Eth (ð) into CVS. file-latin1 conv -f

Re: Two CVS Servers

2001-07-04 Thread Dennis Jones
I might also add that turning on compression helps a lot when you have to connect to the CVS server via modem. - Dennis - Original Message - From: John Minnihan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:37 AM Subject: Re: Two CVS