Re: user names gets the first the characters chopped off

2001-09-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: I am using the CVS that comes with the latest FreeBSD (--version says 1.11) plus the attached patch. Some users (3 out of 7) gets (once in a while) the first two characters of their username shopped out. The CVS_USER_NAME variable the patch

Re: Bidirectional repository synchronization with CVSup - how?

2001-09-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:40:23PM -0500, Art Eschenlauer wrote: We need to discover or learn about a method whereby changes checked into one repository may be pulled into copies of that repository located at our multiple other locations; in effect, each repository must become the master for

Re: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, S. D. wrote: On a side note, Clearcase is an option as well, but I don't think we can afford the $500k/year to support that behemoth. IMHO, ClearCase shouldn't be an option to begin with. If you really can't stand to use the free tools, look into Perforce. It's much

Re: cvs import question

2001-09-21 Thread Markus Grunwald
Am Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:56:57 +1000 schrieb Ellison, Martin [IT]: Maybe distribute your property files in a build script. Then you can keep them together somewhere central. Good Idea, but I wouldn't think our Windows peaple are able to handle build scripts. Make ? What is make ? Uuh ugly

Re: Uncheckout with WinCVS

2001-09-21 Thread Magnus Wibeck
Nicholas wrote: Hi All, I'm using WinCVS and have got into the uncomfortable position of having a file checkedout that is no longer in the repository. I need to recreate it in the repository, or unco it. There's some diagnostic messages below. Can some kind guru please shed some

Is E-mail notification for checkout possible??

2001-09-21 Thread M Hari Hara Prasad
Hello all, While there is an automatic e-mail notification on CVS commits ( through an entry in $CVSROOT/loginfo), is there any means of automatic e-mail notification for all the CVS checkouts made. Any suggestion is appreciated. Regds, Hari ___

Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs

2001-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, September 20, 2001 at 22:00:31 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs --- Forwarded mail from Greg Woods: No, you don't have to check out a new sandbox. All the commit comment logs and

Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from Greg Woods: [ On Thursday, September 20, 2001 at 22:00:31 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs --- Forwarded mail from Greg Woods: No, you don't have to check out a new sandbox.

cvs client on windows, repository on solaris

2001-09-21 Thread Ola Mattsson
Hi, Can you tell me if there is a way to have a cvs client running on a Windows machine that fetches the files from a repository that resides on a Solaris machine. The catch is that the communication between the client and the repository must use ssh, since my company does not allow unencrypted

keyword for branch-name?

2001-09-21 Thread Voigt, Ulrich
Is there a keyword for the branch-name of the currently checked out file? I want to use it in a version file, in which I have to print the branch name. Thanks Ulrich DDG Gesellschaft für Verkehrsdaten mbH Niederkasseler Lohweg 20 40547 Düsseldorf

looking for helpful tools for CVS

2001-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Kormann
Do you know helpful programs for CVS (for Linux, AIX or Win) especially I am looking for - GUI client (WinCVS for Linux, AIX) - reporting and analysis progs - automated scripts for standard operations - a progr. that writes all infos about the repository in a database - so you can

Re: Any graphical tool to display merges?

2001-09-21 Thread Matt Riechers
aenginee wrote: Hi, I am using WinCVS (V1.0.6) and I find that it does not graphically display merges. Is there any graphical tool (windows or Unix) that runs against a CVS server and actually display the merges that have taken place (via arraows going from one the source of the merge to

The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Richard F Weber
I can't seem to find any relevant information on this question (and I hope I don't start a total flame-fest). Is subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) the future of CVS, or is it being developed by a totally separate group of individuals? And has subversion been looked at close enough to

Re: cvs client on windows, repository on solaris

2001-09-21 Thread Matt Riechers
Ola Mattsson wrote: Hi, Can you tell me if there is a way to have a cvs client running on a Windows machine that fetches the files from a repository that resides on a Solaris machine. The catch is that the communication between the client and the repository must use ssh, since my company

adding a directory tree to existing module; checkout of subdirectory

2001-09-21 Thread Alexander Welti
hi! suppose you have some module in the repository; (doing a checkout of the whole module and configuring some apache files -- voila it works) now i would like to add an other application (directory tree with code) from another server into the same module of the main server into a certain

AW: keyword for branch-name?

2001-09-21 Thread Schell Walter
Ulrich, the keyword-list in Carl Fogel's book (open source dev. with cvs) shows the $Name$-keyword. As I tested it, it doesn't work (server: cvs 1.11.p1, client WinCVS 1.2). Maybe someone on the list knows more about it. Walter -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Voigt, Ulrich [mailto:[EMAIL

Monitoring CVS usage

2001-09-21 Thread Marian Aldenhoevel
Hi, I have introduced the idea of version-management in an organization that up to date did it manually, diffing source-files every evening and splicing them together again to incorporate changes. When told about software that does that and much more they were quite delighted :-). While

Re: AW: keyword for branch-name?

2001-09-21 Thread Karl-Heinz Marbaise
Hi there, Ulrich, the keyword-list in Carl Fogel's book (open source dev. with cvs) shows the $Name$-keyword. The $Name$ Keyword is only if you do cvs export -rTAGNAME which is replaced by the given TAGNAME. Nothing else. Kind Regards from Aachen. -- Dipl.-Ing. Karl Heinz Marbaise |

Re: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Larry Jones
Richard F Weber writes: Is subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) the future of CVS, or is it being developed by a totally separate group of individuals? It's a completely separate project. -Larry Jones Do you think God lets you plea bargain? -- Calvin

Re: Monitoring CVS usage

2001-09-21 Thread Karl-Heinz Marbaise
Hi Marian, While making the transition to cvs I would now like to get some sort of overview on who uses it, when and how often. You can do things like get a e-mail every time some does a checkin, assuming you have your CVS repository on Unix box. Or you can tike a look into history from time

Re: Monitoring CVS usage

2001-09-21 Thread Ilya Martynov
MA [..skip..] MA While making the transition to cvs I would now like to get some sort of MA overview on who uses it, when and how often. Everybody who have to create and modify any *text* files can use it. In company at which I work it is used by programmers, web masters and even managment.

Re: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't seem to find any relevant information on this question (and I hope I don't start a total flame-fest). Is subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) the future of CVS, or is it being developed by a totally separate group of individuals? It's a

RE: Any graphical tool to display merges?

2001-09-21 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
UltraEdit http://www.idmcomp.com/products/features.html ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: adding a directory tree to existing module; checkout of subdirectory

2001-09-21 Thread Philip Lijnzaad
hi! suppose you have some module in the repository; (doing a checkout of the whole module and configuring some apache files -- voila it works) now i would like to add an other application (directory tree with code) from another server into the same module of the main server into a

RE: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Thornley, David
Richard F Weber writes: Is subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) the future of CVS, or is it being developed by a totally separate group of individuals? It's a completely separate project. The subversion group does include Karl Fogel, the author of the critically acclaimed

Re: Is E-mail notification for checkout possible??

2001-09-21 Thread Kaz Kylheku
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], M Hari Hara Prasad wrote: Hello all, While there is an automatic e-mail notification on CVS commits ( through an entry in $CVSROOT/loginfo), is there any means of automatic e-mail notification for all the CVS checkouts made. Such a feature won't scale; what if you

problem logging in from win32 with pserver

2001-09-21 Thread Stu
I am having a peculiar problem. I have a cvs server running on a private network, on redhat 7.1, with an ip address of 192.168.0.2. I have a client running windows 98, on a dynamically allocated ip address of 192.168.0.10. Now I have the cvs server set up to allow connection using pserver on

Re: Monitoring CVS usage

2001-09-21 Thread Kaz Kylheku
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marian Aldenhoevel wrote: While making the transition to cvs I would now like to get some sort of overview on who uses it, when and how often. Lots of freeware projects which have publically accessible CVS repositories. STFW: Search The F... Fine Web!

Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs

2001-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 00:44:42 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs Only about 10% of the developers I know have ever opened the manual to their version control tool. They rely instead on

Re: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 07:52:17 (-0400), Richard F Weber wrote: ] Subject: The future of CVS Subversion Is subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) the future of CVS, or is it being developed by a totally separate group of individuals? CVS will have a future so long as any

Re: looking for helpful tools for CVS

2001-09-21 Thread Andrew Johnson
Wolfgang Kormann wrote: Do you know helpful programs for CVS (for Linux, AIX or Win) especially I am looking for - GUI client (WinCVS for Linux, AIX) tkcvs - http://www.twobarleycorns.net/tkcvs.html - Andrew -- Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but

Re: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Andrew Johnson
Larry Jones wrote: Richard F Weber writes: Is subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) the future of CVS, or is it being developed by a totally separate group of individuals? It's a completely separate project. It's interesting to note though that one of the key developers Karl

Re: Unable to connect...

2001-09-21 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NEW CVSROOT: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/my/path (password authentication) cvs login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Server configuration missing --allow-root in inetd.conf cvs login: authorization failed: server my.server.com rejected access to /my/path for

Excluding directories/files during CVS checkout

2001-09-21 Thread Vikas Aggarwal
I wanted to exclude certain files and directories when a person does a CVS co on a source directory. I dont really need to use 'modules', since I have a really simple setup (the source tree snips is under $cvsroot directly). Seems like the only way to do it is using an *alias* module. So I

Bidirectional repository synchronization with CVSup - how?

2001-09-21 Thread Art Eschenlauer
Greetings! We develop software using CVS as an SCM tool. Our developers are located at multiple sites linked by a moderate-speed, moderate-reliability network. CVSup seems like the tool to use to replicate. We need to discover or learn about a method whereby changes checked into one repository

RE: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Peter Ring
SourceForge is going to offer SV as an alternative to cvs (see http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=232197). I perceive SV as a nice alternative (just as plain RCS, fancy BitKeeper, artsy PRCS, ambitious aegis, etc. etc.). It might be able to attract a large community, just as CVS has

Re: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread S . D .
IMHO, ClearCase shouldn't be an option to begin with. If you really can't stand to use the free tools, look into Perforce. It's much cheaper and has *vastly* superior tech support. On a side note, Clearcase is an option as well, but I don't think we can afford the $500k/year to support that

Problems with -f option and checkout

2001-09-21 Thread John McNamara
I am trying to use the -f option to check out the head revision if the tag specified by -r is not found. From the manual: Checkout options -f Only useful with the `-D date' or `-r tag' flags. If no matching revision is found, retrieve the most recent revision

Re: Problems with -f option and checkout

2001-09-21 Thread Larry Jones
John McNamara writes: Why doesn't Case 2 work? If the tag doesn't exist at all, CVS assumes that you've made a mistake and so doesn't do anything. After all, if the tag doesn't exist at all, why are you specifying it with -f instead of just checking out the head? If Case 2 shouldn't work

Re: os390

2001-09-21 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:35:23PM +, r w wrote: hope this isnt a lame question.. anyone gotten cvs to work on an os390 (no http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-February/012766.html It still probably needs more testers before the necessary changes could be considered for rolling

Re: The future of CVS Subversion

2001-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 15:11:23 (-0400), Richard F Weber wrote: ] Subject: Re: The future of CVS Subversion Well, didn't really intend to suggest that CVS would drop off the face of the earth. I was just wondering if it was a natural migration of CVS, or CVS ideals into

Re: Monitoring CVS usage

2001-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 18:18:53 (GMT), Kaz Kylheku wrote: ] Subject: Re: Monitoring CVS usage Lots of freeware projects which have publically accessible CVS repositories. almost all of the ones on sourceforge.net, as a matter of fact! ;-) --

Re: Problems with -f option and checkout

2001-09-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:12:29PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: John McNamara writes: Why doesn't Case 2 work? If the tag doesn't exist at all, CVS assumes that you've made a mistake and so doesn't do anything. After all, if the tag doesn't exist at all, why are you specifying it with -f

Re: Bidirectional repository synchronization with CVSup - how?

2001-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 15:40:23 (-0500), Art Eschenlauer wrote: ] Subject: Bidirectional repository synchronization with CVSup - how? We develop software using CVS as an SCM tool. Our developers are located at multiple sites linked by a moderate-speed, moderate-reliability

Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs

2001-09-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 18:45:22 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs In the mean time cvs rlog modulepath/a/b/a.c will work (and without any working directory, obviously). Really? Here's the