cvs does not find my script files

2001-10-15 Thread Roni Abusch
I tried to add the script that I found in the CVS manual, that suppose to force the user to enter bugid to their comments. That's what I did: I put this line in CVSROOT/editinfo: ^Test $CVSROOT/cvsscripts/bugid.edit I put this line in CVSROOT/rcsinfo: ^Test${CVSROOT}/cvsscripts

cvs help in german

2001-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Kormann
Hi, for my developers it would be easyer to learn cvs with a german manual. Do you know where I could get this. Thanks for help! Wolfgang Kormann ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: cvs help in german

2001-10-15 Thread Harald Kucharek
Wolfgang Kormann wrote: > > Hi, > > for my developers it would be easyer to learn cvs with a german manual. > Do you know where I could get this. > > Thanks for help! > > Wolfgang Kormann I don't know about the manual (the "Cederqvist") but there is a german translation of Kai Fogels book

RE: cvs help in german

2001-10-15 Thread Michael Thiele
Hi Wolfgang, > for my developers it would be easyer to learn cvs with a > german manual. there's a book available. ISBN 3-8266-0628-0 It's the complete translation of Karl Fogel's book. cu Michael ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

AW: cvs help in german

2001-10-15 Thread Schell Walter
Have a look at Karl Fogel's book "Open Source-Projekte mit CVS", MITP-Verlag, ISBN 3-8266-0628-0 or online http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/translations/Deutsch/. HTH Walter -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Wolfgang Kormann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 15. Oktober 2001 09:22 An

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2001-10-15 Thread jim . wang
How can i import a project in another directory to server when i am in current directory ? Jim.Wang ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

": ambiguous redirect" error

2001-10-15 Thread Roni Abusch
I've tried to add the ability to have a place that always contains the updated files, as described in the CVS ducument in section C.7.2 and placed the line ^Test (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd /home/rabusch/testing; cvs -q update -d) &) >> $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/updatelog 2>&1 in the loginfo file, but it did

Soft link in CVS

2001-10-15 Thread Eli Eaton
Hi, Does anyone know of the best way to support soft link in UNIX in a CVSROOT ? I want some files that reside in one directory to be linked to files exist in other directory. When I checkout/update/commit the files in any of the directories it will update the second one. Thanks Eli. -

Re: Soft link in CVS

2001-10-15 Thread Philip Lijnzaad
> Hi, > =20 > Does anyone know of the best way to support soft link in UNIX in a > CVSROOT ? > =20 > I want some files that reside in one directory to be linked to files > exist in other directory. When I checkout/update/commit the files in any > of the directories it will update the second o

Re: ": ambiguous redirect" error

2001-10-15 Thread Philip Lijnzaad
> I've tried to add the ability to have a place that always contains the > updated files, as described in the CVS ducument in section C.7.2 and placed > the line > ^Test (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd /home/rabusch/testing; cvs -q update -d) &) >>> $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/updatelog 2>&1 > in the loginfo file

Re: CVS - setup reserved checkout

2001-10-15 Thread yap_noel
Because there is no group, and there are no conflicts. This is just another Chicken Little yelling that the sky is falling. Actually a step beneath Chicken Little, because something actually did fall on Chicken Little's head, it wasn't just pure imagination. :) Yes, I was giving him the benefi

Re: CVS - setup reserved checkout

2001-10-15 Thread yap_noel
>In the end, productivity is probably the same in either method. Developers >spend a lot of time getting coffee every day while their automatic merges >complete, or they slave away for hours resolving conflicts once every couple >of weeks. But perception is everything here; letting the automati

RE: ": ambiguous redirect" error

2001-10-15 Thread Roni Abusch
In the document it is written as I put it. Anyway, I deleted my copy of the project, and checked it out again, and now it is working, I do not know exactly why... Roni. -Original Message- From: Philip Lijnzaad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 12:55 To: [EMAIL PRO

RE: CVS - setup reserved checkout

2001-10-15 Thread yap_noel
I got the same impression David and Greg did. Method locking is something Envy in Visual Age has. Although I've never tried it myself, I think, at least for Java, it's fitting s square peg into a round hole since Java, by definition, is file based. Noel I think the original poster was referri

Re: CVS - setup reserved checkout

2001-10-15 Thread yap_noel
OK, then exactly what are you expecting from the link? Maybe SourceForge was down when you tried it? Have you tried it again? Have you tried following the step-by-step instructions I sent out? Noel I simply clicked on the link you supplied. I even copied it to IE just to make sure Nutscrape

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RE: Soft link in CVS

2001-10-15 Thread Kostur, Andre
Title: RE: Soft link in CVS CVS and Soft Links do not play well together.  In particular, they don't exist on some platforms on which CVS runs (how do you do a proper soft-link under Win32?) (there are other reasons, ask Mr. Woods).  That sort of thing is probably best done with either post-up

RE: CVS - setup reserved checkout

2001-10-15 Thread Thornley, David
> -Original Message- > From: Bryon Lape [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Wrong. > > Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >You need to ask yourself why your group is experiencing so > many conflicts > > >while so many other grou

RE: Handling project documentation using CVS

2001-10-15 Thread Thornley, David
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 4:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Handling project documentation using CVS > > > Hello all, I was wondering if some of you nice people could > give me some > feedback on

Re: strange release -d error

2001-10-15 Thread Todd Denniston
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:56:12 -0400, Matt Riechers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does it work w/o the trailing slash? > > Nope. > > [msoulier@pmerd071 projects]$ cvs release -d CVSROOT > You have [0] altered files in this repository. > Are you sure you wa

cannot open file Utils.pm for comparing: No such file or directory

2001-10-15 Thread Philip Lijnzaad
Dear all, I have a strange problem: I can cvs update and commit and everything without a problem, but when doing a cvs diff, I get: cvs [server aborted]: cannot open file Utils.pm for comparing: No such file or directory The CVSROOT is ':ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ebi/cvs' and my CVS_RSH is ssh.

RE: (no subject)

2001-10-15 Thread Joseph Natar
Title: RE: (no subject) Hi Larry: This brings me to a question, I am planning to migrate the cvs repository to another machine. I am using the same password file from the old one in the new one. Does it mean since the name of the machine before and after are same, it is transparent to the

RE: Soft link in CVS

2001-10-15 Thread Kostur, Andre
Title: RE: Soft link in CVS Once again in plain ASCII... -Original Message- From: Kostur, Andre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 7:48 AM To: 'Eli Eaton'; CVS newsgroup (E-mail) Subject: RE: Soft link in CVS CVS and Soft Links do not play well together.  In

Is it a good idea to use CVS for this??

2001-10-15 Thread prhodes
Hello all, I have been having an interesting discussion with a co-worker, and am looking for some additional thoughts. My organization is just adopting CVS, and source code management. ( don't even ask how we did it in the past, you don't wanna know ). Anyway, we have been discussing exactly

RE: Handling project documentation using CVS

2001-10-15 Thread Paul Sander
>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 4:28 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Handling project documentation using CVS >> >> >> Hello all, I was wondering if some of y

rolling back

2001-10-15 Thread ar2kcm
How does one roll back to a previous version in the repository? Thanks in advance, ar2kcm ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this??

2001-10-15 Thread Kenneth Loafman
I think that an executable without the corresponding source is useless (OK, it runs, but it cannot be reproduced). What I use the executables for is to guarantee that the build process went well, i.e. the SCM group built the same thing as the engineering group. Once you have that, you should jus

Re: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this??

2001-10-15 Thread Matt Riechers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, one coworker has suggested storing the output of the build process ( > that is, the final executables, dlls, etc. ) in CVS. As the manual plainly states, CVS is not a build system, only a potential component of it. You *could* put all that stuff in CVS, but it

Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Nesbitt, Steve
Title: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges All: Base question is how can I successfully implement a bi-directional merge between two branches when the merge to one branch must be deferred? Another way to phrase the question is "How do I force the tip of one branch to be identical to th

Re: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this??

2001-10-15 Thread Rob Helmer
One thing to keep in mind is that binary files are non-mergable ( at least, you don't want the output of an automatic merge by CVS, since it won't work anymore ;) and that means that everytime you check in a new revision of a binary file, it doubles in size. This can easily grow way out of contr

Re: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this??

2001-10-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 12:18:29 (-0400), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] > Subject: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this?? > > Well, one coworker has suggested storing the output of the build process ( > that is, the final executables, dlls, etc. ) in CVS. He makes some good > arguments tha

Re: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this??

2001-10-15 Thread prhodes
Greg, Thanks for your response. My general feeling all along was that this is a bad idea. But, my co-worker is adamant, and I really didn't have much in the way of a response for him when he asked "why is it a bad idea?" > CVS is not suited for derived files no matter what their internal

Re: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 10:52:57 (-0700), Nesbitt, Steve wrote: ] > Subject: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges > > Another way to phrase the question is "How do I force the tip of one branch > to be identical to the tip of another branch?" Check out the source and target branches

RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Nesbitt, Steve
Title: RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges Greg: Thanks for the heads up on the html (I love Microsoft - give me back my linux box!) The question I have with this approach is what does my diff look like afterwards? For example, if my base version is 1.3 and I copy the entire file

Re: rolling back

2001-10-15 Thread Kaz Kylheku
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ar2kcm wrote: >How does one roll back to a previous version in the repository? You must read the CVS manual, and also you must stop seeing version control through a Visual SourceSafe perspective. ___ Info-cvs mailing list

Re: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this??

2001-10-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 14:30:55 (-0400), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this?? > > If it's not too much trouble, could you possibly elaborate just a little > more on this? Unfortunately, I'm not enough of a cvs whiz to see exactly > why this is

RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 12:03:11 (-0700), Nesbitt, Steve wrote: ] > Subject: RE: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges > > Thanks for the heads up on the html (I love Microsoft - give me back my > linux box!) Hah! :-) So, why don't you just take it back? Nobody _needs_ M$. Use of

Re: Is it a good idea to use CVS for this??

2001-10-15 Thread James Youngman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello all, I have been having an interesting discussion with a co-worker, > and am looking for some additional thoughts. My organization is just > adopting CVS, and source code management. ( don't even ask how we did it > in the past, you don't wanna know ). Anywa

Re: Strange message...

2001-10-15 Thread Bobby Martin
Matt Riechers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Yes it is, just not a fatal one. You have a syntax error in your CVSROOT/config > file. > > -Matt In fact, I have the same problem, and I can't see how there could be a syntax error in my config file. It has nothi

Re: Help! Implementing Bi-Directional Merges

2001-10-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:52:57AM -0700, Nesbitt, Steve wrote: > Base question is how can I successfully implement a bi-directional merge > between two branches when the merge to one branch must be deferred? > > Another way to phrase the question is "How do I force the tip of one branch > to be

Re: Why can't root check in files?

2001-10-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 09:50:29 (+1000), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Why can't root check in files? > > My system is now under cvs control via having /etc as a cvs working > directory, and so far at least it has caused me no problems, and worked > just as I expected. > > I

Re: cvs or rcs permissions in a secure environment

2001-10-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, October 8, 2001 at 19:01:54 (-0400), Marc Thornton wrote: ] > Subject: cvs or rcs permissions in a secure environment > > Okay, the issue: using an ACL to apply permissions on the directories and > due to ACL limitations, I'm forced to give group access to the files to all > develope

RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

2001-10-15 Thread Jerry Nairn
> From: David Everly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 5:03 PM > cvs -n stat filename seems only to work from a 'sandbox' point of > view. How would I use that in the context of a commitinfo script? In local mode, the commands in commitinfo have direct access to your

RE: cvs or rcs permissions in a secure environment

2001-10-15 Thread Thornton, Marc
Sorry to put things out of sequence but... putting the reply on top should make it easier to find :) Thanks for your insight and it seems it is as I expected. The one question I do have, though, is would using a remote CVS repository (using pserver?) make the repository more secure if developers

removing a "ghost" directory?

2001-10-15 Thread Jason R. Mastaler
I'm gotten into a strange situation where I can't remove a subdirectory from my repository. [jasonrm@nightshade dist]$ cvs -z6 update -P -d cvs server: Updating . cvs server: Updating TMDA cvs server: Updating bin cvs server: Updating contrib cvs server: Updating doc cvs server: Updating htdocs c

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2001-10-15 Thread jim . wang
How can i import a project in another directory to server when i am in current directory ? I must do it in current directory. How can i appoint the directory that the project be in command "import"? Jim.Wang ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cvs or rcs permissions in a secure environment

2001-10-15 Thread minyard
"Thornton, Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for your insight and it seems it is as I expected. The one question > I do have, though, is would using a remote CVS repository (using pserver?) > make the repository more secure if developers did not have direct access to > the repository

Re: Why can't root check in files?

2001-10-15 Thread luke
On 15 Oct, Greg A. Woods responded to: > [ On Monday, October 15, 2001 at 09:50:29 (+1000), [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: Why can't root check in files? > > > > My system is now under cvs control via having /etc as a cvs working > > directory, and so far at least it has caused me