Re: merge mode for XML

2002-05-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:43:11PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 14:49:11 (-0500), Sean Hager wrote: ] > > Subject: RE: merge mode for XML > > > No. Not on extension, but based on *regular expressions*, or at least > > > shell-style pattern matching expressions.

Re: Unable to add new files after checking out a tag

2002-05-03 Thread Stephen Leake
b_dompe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This seems to work for existing files. However, when people try to > add a new file to the repository, they get the error "cannot add file > on non-branch tag ". The error message is telling you what you need to know; read the CVS manual about "branch".

RE: merge mode for XML

2002-05-03 Thread Sean Hager
> > > > No. Not on extension, but based on *regular > expressions*, or at least > > > shell-style pattern matching expressions. > Extensions are too > > > simplistic. (c.f. CVSROOT/cvswrappers, CVSROOT/cvsignore) > > > > Extensions would work fine, pattern matching is overkill. > > Neit

RE: merge mode for XML

2002-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 14:49:11 (-0500), Sean Hager wrote: ] > Subject: RE: merge mode for XML > > > > > No. Not on extension, but based on *regular expressions*, or at least > > shell-style pattern matching expressions. Extensions are too > > simplistic. (c.f. CVSROOT/cvswrappe

Re: Moving CVS repository

2002-05-03 Thread Thomas S. Urban
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 16:14:14 -0400, Greg A. Woods sent 0.8K bytes: > [ On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 13:30:04 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: Moving CVS repository > > > > Greg A. Woods writes: > > > > > > there are zillions of basically unsolvable issues which arise if there's > >

Re: Moving CVS repository

2002-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 13:30:04 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Moving CVS repository > > Greg A. Woods writes: > > > > there are zillions of basically unsolvable issues which arise if there's > > any use of *info files. > > The way CVS handles a directory tree with multiple CV

RE: merge mode for XML

2002-05-03 Thread Sean Hager
> Yeah. That'd be a cool feature. But then, CVS will no longer be a > standalone program. If you move the repository to another server > where the modules are missing, how would you expect CVS to behave? The plugins would be part of the module, so if you moved the module to another CV

RE: merge mode for XML

2002-05-03 Thread Sean Hager
> No. Not on extension, but based on *regular expressions*, or at least > shell-style pattern matching expressions. Extensions are too > simplistic. (c.f. CVSROOT/cvswrappers, CVSROOT/cvsignore) Extensions would work fine, pattern matching is overkill. > Yes. Some mechanisms l

RE: merge mode for XML

2002-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 13:33:08 (-0700), Glew, Andy wrote: ] > Subject: RE: merge mode for XML > > Well, I wrote Perl-SQL, a relational database system that > is self-schematizing - where every record can define its own schema, > with its own fields. Yeah, that sounds like something a per

Re: merge mode for XML

2002-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , May 2, 2002 at 09:33:45 (+0200), Lee Sau Dan wrote: ] > Subject: Re: merge mode for XML > > > "Paul" == Paul Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul> A better implementation would be to code a symbolic name for > Paul> the merge tool in a newphrase in the admin section the

Re: Any plan to merge cvspwd into cvs?

2002-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 07:23:23 (GMT), Ben Kial wrote: ] > Subject: Any plan to merge cvspwd into cvs? > > I have been using "cvspwd" to manage my CVS user accounts in > my :pserver host so that I don't have to create Unix accounts for > each CVS user. However, "cvspwd" can only be execute

Re: Moving CVS repository

2002-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Greg A. Woods writes: > > there are zillions of basically unsolvable issues which arise if there's > any use of *info files. The way CVS handles a directory tree with multiple CVSROOTs is by running the command once for each root with just the directories that have that root. As far as I can te

Re: read-only access on module basis in one repository

2002-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Andreas Thalau writes: > > as I read on http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC36 it is > possible to gain read-only access to the repository for some users. > I canĀ“t find a hint on managing this for one repository based on > modules. You use filesystem permissions to control access t

Re: Unable to add new files after checking out a tag

2002-05-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:45:48PM -, b_dompe wrote: > We bring a new tree up to date with the latest 'stamped' release by > using "cvs update -r", where the release was created > with "cvs tag -RF ". > > This seems to work for existing files. However, when people try to > add a new file

Re: Sharing the same physical file in multiple directories

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Sander
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 03:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have one config file that must exist in several directories in my > project. > I would like to be able to have CVS create this file in all its > locations > and still only have it stored once in the repository. Any idea ho

Re: How to retain revision history when copying files from one cvs project to another?

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Sander
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 02:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We have all our source code in the CVS repository as > one project. Now we want to start a new project in > CVS. But we will be requiring files from the existing > project into the new project. How can we copy/move the > files

Re: cvs remove: removing files not locally?

2002-05-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:25:54PM +0200, Stefan Bertels wrote: > Case: I check in a file by accident and want it removed from the > repository. But I need the file. Think of it as per-user options regarding > to a project. > > When I call remove the local file will be removed at my machine now a

Re: FW: Extracting All Versions of a File From CVS

2002-05-03 Thread Matt Riechers
Laura Hopkins wrote: > > I'm trying to extract _all_ versions of a CVS file into a directory. Any > ideas how to do this or whether it can be done? The following will generate and run a script that will do the job: cvs log $YOURFILE |awk '/^rev/ {print "cvs up -p -r" $2 " " rfile " > "

Re: Upgrading to 1.11 from 1.10

2002-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Danial Islam writes: > > In UNIX, if I had the repository and all the scripts set up in CVS > 1.10, then if i start using the binary for CVS 1.11 during the middle > of our code development, will my repository get screwed up? No, they're upward compatible. Please check the NEWS file for chang

Re: Can I check out a new directory without getting the files in it?

2002-05-03 Thread Matt Riechers
b_dompe wrote: > > Is there a way to check out only the directory > even if it contains files? No. What are you trying to accomplish by doing that? > Alternatively, checking out the directory with just one specific file > in it could be adapted to what we need. But we can't have it > retrieve

Re: CVS diagraming tools

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Crafter
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:11:53AM -0700, Max wrote: > I'm hoping to untangle a CVS hairball and need a good charting tool > that will allow me to run against a repository and generate a diagram. > Is there anything out there that already does this? What kind of diagram do you want to ge

Re: Sharing the same physical file in multiple directories

2002-05-03 Thread Oliver Fischer
Hi, I think this is a issue, that should be solved within your project and its organisation (building, deployment etc). Bye Oliver - Original Message - From: "Karsten, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:33 AM Subject: Sharing the same ph