Re: What does state and lines mean in the cvslog file?

2002-04-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:20:06PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: > "state" is an RCS thing -- you can set the state to anything you want on > a checkin, and you can ask for the most recent revision with a > particular state on checkout. It's not particularly useful with CVS. Except that state "dead

Re: Help with patch "P" files and ".new"

2002-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
Dowd, Brian writes: > > [various problems with patch] > > I am using cvs 1.11 on SunOS 5.8 . I don't think so. It looks like you're actually using an ancient version of CVS that is using the system's patch command (which is also ancient, or at least deficient from CVS's point of view) rather th

Re: Change versions CVS

2002-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I am currently in version 1.2 of a file. I would like to force it to > version 2.1 > > What should I do? Why do you care what the file's revision number is? Revision numbers are for internal use only. -Larry Jones Any game without push-ups, hits, burns or noogie

Re: Removing top level dir from cvs module

2002-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
Neil Tardella writes: > > Could somebody tell me how I might remove a top level directory from a repository? > basically I have: > dir1 > dir2 > dir3.1 > dir3.2 > .. > and I want the repository to have > dir2 >dir3.1 >dir3.2 > . The best thing to do is to

Re: What does state and lines mean in the cvslog file?

2002-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
Casey T. Zednick writes: > > date: 2002/02/12 18:58:07; author: jlynde; state: Exp; lines: +0 -0 > > What does state mean? How do you tell whether lines have been changed? "state" is an RCS thing -- you can set the state to anything you want on a checkin, and you can ask for the most recent

Re: inetd.conf problem

2002-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
Per Akesson writes: > > and /usr/local/bin/cvs.inetd looks like: > > #! /bin/sh > REPOS="--allow-root=/home/navtech/cvsroot \ > --allow-root=/home/sasfs/cvsroot \ > --allow-root=/home/spaceweb/cvsroot \ > --allow-root=/home/thf/cvsroot \ > --allow-root=/home/tlm/cvsroot" > /usr/local/bin/cvs

Re: Lying about the author (and so).

2002-04-12 Thread gabriel rosenkoetter
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:31:18PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Friday, April 12, 2002 at 12:14:14 (+0200), Jon Krom wrote: ] > > 2. When checking-in a file into RCS, one could "ly" about the author. > >Also very useful when importing files that were created by someone > >else. > "su

Re: locks; strict;

2002-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > What exactly do the locks and the strict field, in the admin-section of > the RCS file, tell if they were filled? Why are you asking RCS file format questions on the CVS list? > I understand a lock entry would have following format: > Id : num > where

Re: Purpose of desc-section in RCS file?

2002-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > We know that the RCS file has following format: > admin {delta}* desc {deltatext}* > But of what purpose is the string that could be in the desc-section, > is it only to seperate the delta's from the deltaxt's > or was it something for RCS that CVS doesn't use

Re: rlog: How to get log messages *after* one tag up to another tag

2002-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
David Carson writes: > > I'm sure there is some complication involved, but it is apparently > possible. The "cvs rdiff -r -r" syntax handles this > problem correctly, going from to even if from trunk to > branch. As long as point A is an ancestor of point B, then there is > only one way to ge

rlog: How to get log messages *after* one tag up to another tag

2002-04-12 Thread David Carson
Unfortunately, by ISP does not carry gnu.cvs.help and google groups won't let me respond to this thread for some reason. So, I'm posting a "new" message that is really a continuation of this thread. Larry Jones wrote: > Jim Doyle writes: > >>Is there a chance the cvs log features recently adde

Re: CVS question

2002-04-12 Thread Pierre Asselin
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicolas=20PEZRON?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I thought that to you use CVS, you had to copy the >source of your first version of your program and >after, you will be able to retrieve all the versions >of your program More or less. You clean up your sour

Problem with 'cvs watch on' not all files are r/o

2002-04-12 Thread u.tropp
Hello list, I have some problems using the 'cvs watch on' command. If watch is on and a developer adds a new file, this new file will *sometimes* not be r/o. One must send 'cvs watch on' once more to make it work. Is this a real bug, or are we doing something wrong? We are using: Concurrent

Re: Lying about the author (and so).

2002-04-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, April 12, 2002 at 12:14:14 (+0200), Jon Krom wrote: ] > Subject: Lying about the author (and so). > > 1. When checking-in a file into RCS, one could instruct RCS to use >The RCS keywords in the file to (re-)construct version numbers >etc. Very useful when importing files fro

Re: CVS And Solaris

2002-04-12 Thread gabriel rosenkoetter
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Andrew Johnson wrote: > Look up the usage for and set the CVS_SERVER environment variable, which > allows you to specify the path to the cvs binary on a remote server. Incidentally, this has nothing to do with CVS and everything to do with a misconfigured

Re: CVS and database

2002-04-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
Dausy Wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wim_DAUSY/BE/ALCATEL@ALCATEL wrote: > > Or do we have to provide our own database to work > with CVS, if we want this kind of security? You could do passive auditing with redundancy. Eg. use CVSup to replicate the repository to one or more backup machines and

locks; strict;

2002-04-12 Thread Dausy Wim
What exactly do the locks and the strict field, in the admin-section of the RCS file, tell if they were filled? I understand a lock entry would have following format: Id : num where id is the lock owner, person who has exclusive access to the file and num is the revision of that

Re: Purpose of desc-section in RCS file?

2002-04-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:34:55PM +0200, Dausy Wim wrote: > We know that the RCS file has following format: > admin {delta}* desc {deltatext}* > But of what purpose is the string that could be in the desc-section, At a guess, it holds the descriptive text you can put in with "cvs admin -t"

Re: CVS and database

2002-04-12 Thread Noel Yap
--- Dausy Wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wim_DAUSY/BE/ALCATEL@ALCATEL wrote: > Does the CVS have any security for handling crashes > or does it do > consistency checks? No. > Or do we have to provide our own database to work > with CVS, if we want > this kind of security? You'd have to perform a majo

CVS and database

2002-04-12 Thread Dausy Wim
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Purpose of desc-section in RCS file?

2002-04-12 Thread Dausy Wim
We know that the RCS file has following format: admin {delta}* desc {deltatext}* But of what purpose is the string that could be in the desc-section, is it only to seperate the delta's from the deltaxt's or was it something for RCS that CVS doesn't use anymore? begin:vcard n:Dausy;Wim te

label rules

2002-04-12 Thread Dausy Wim
Are there a international standard for labeling versions, releases or branches? It seems to me that every company has it's own labeling behavior. Isn't there like a ISO standard? Why is that? begin:vcard n:Dausy;Wim tel;cell:+32/477-79.18.49 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Alcatel Kontich;WB2 adr:;

Help with patch "P" files and ".new"

2002-04-12 Thread Dowd, Brian
HI All, I am having the following problem, I am working on a solaris box through a pserver and whenever I do a "cvs update -A -P -d it attempts to patch a host of files (I believe it does this rather than the overhead of pulling down a FULL set of changed files) these patched files end up wi

Lying about the author (and so).

2002-04-12 Thread Jon Krom
Dear all, RCS used to have a few tricks I used every now and then, that I haven't found back in CVS yet. 1. When checking-in a file into RCS, one could instruct RCS to use The RCS keywords in the file to (re-)construct version numbers etc. Very useful when importing files from a third

wincvs up-to-date problem; cvs write-protection problem

2002-04-12 Thread Leif Hanack
hello, i'm new to cvs and have a basic question! i'm using wincvs136 as well as netbeans 3.3.1 to connect to a cvs repository. after i changed some files, update them and commit them the visualisation inside netbeans is correct. but wincvs seems to have some problems. the blue backslash is miss

Change versions CVS

2002-04-12 Thread alberto.amargos
Hi, I am currently in version 1.2 of a file. I would like to force it to version 2.1 What should I do? Should I user branches for it or can I force it? Regards, Alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information transmitted is intended onl

Re: why does wincvs show all files as modified

2002-04-12 Thread Martin Tomes
Gary Bisaga wrote: > Ok, I'm confused. I'm having the exact same problem - since Monday morning, > after daylight savings time started, almost all my files show as modified > even though I have not modified them. And I'm using wincvs, 1.3.4.3 Beta 4 > (Local Build 3). We spent a day trying to sor

Re: finding out the branch or tag date

2002-04-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 11, 2002 at 20:32:19 (-), brianpdoyle wrote: ] > Subject: finding out the branch or tag date > > Once you have created a branch or a tag on a module is there a way to > find out the date and time that the branch was created? Thanks. Note that in CVS a branch is initial