Re: new to CVS

2002-07-12 Thread Mahantesh
Suresh Sankuratri wrote: Hi, I am new to CVS and am interested to use it via the command line thru DOS.Can some one give me the following details 1. Where can i get the installation /Set-up file for CVS 2. Steps to install 3. Examples for a few commands like checkIn , checkOut ..etc

Merging third party source

2002-07-12 Thread Fredrik Svensson
Dear all, I am trying to track a third party source and I had some problem with the latest import. I taged the tree as before_NEWVERSION unpacked the new sources. I imported the new sources as described in the manuals, with the tag NEWVERSION. cvs -q import project Company NEWVERSION I then

Running in Production mode moving the repo

2002-07-12 Thread stacy . j . lyons
I have a working repo that I am getting ready to baseline/tag so that I can start using the repo for this years production processing. I have multiple programmers running diff pieces of this system. Normally I had a development area where each programmer made changes in their own dir but now

Binary files and sticky keyword substitution

2002-07-12 Thread Massimiliano . Maini
Hi, I have the following problem : - my module contains some text files (code, let's say *.c) and some binary files (images, let's say *.gif). The cvswrappers file I have automatically recognizes the binary files extension and uses the '-kb' keyword substitution mode for them. All the code

Searching the Info-cvs list

2002-07-12 Thread Jonathan Hodges
Does any one know of an easier way to search the old posts than to download the raw text archive and search through it? Is there a site somewhere that might have indexed the archives? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searching the Info-cvs list

2002-07-12 Thread gabriel rosenkoetter
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:21:26AM -0500, Jonathan Hodges wrote: Does any one know of an easier way to search the old posts than to download the raw text archive and search through it? Is there a site somewhere that might have indexed the archives? Well, every post to the mailing list

Re: Searching the Info-cvs list

2002-07-12 Thread Matt Riechers
Jonathan Hodges wrote: Does any one know of an easier way to search the old posts than to download the raw text archive and search through it? Is there a site somewhere that might have indexed the archives? http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cvs%40gnu.org/ -Matt

Use of CVS in the context of Unix server, unix based developers and Windows (VC++) based developers.

2002-07-12 Thread Arcin Bozkurt
Hi everyone. The problem at hand uses the following tools: Unix server running cvs 1.11.1p1 Linux developers using cvs 1.11.1p1 and using Emacs to edit code (latest emacs) Windows developers using WinCvs1.2 for CVS interface and VC++ to edit code. The problem is the following: (as much as I

RE: lock-modify-unlock model with CVS

2002-07-12 Thread Noel Yap
--- Nate Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Noel, Do I need to edit the patch file at all before I initially apply it to our system? Thanks! I've had experiences on a Solaris box in which patch didn't handle subdirectories (perhaps I wasn't using it properly). Instead of investigating

RE: Searching the Info-cvs list

2002-07-12 Thread Vince Rice
Which doesn't help him. The URL you give below provides a way to *view* the mail for a month at a time, or to download the text. It provides no way to search, which is what he is looking for. The mail archive site Matt mentioned is better (http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cvs%40gnu.org/). I

Re: Merging third party source

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Fredrik Svensson writes: I taged the tree as before_NEWVERSION What what revisions did you tag? I'm assuming you tagged the most recent revisions on the trunk. unpacked the new sources. I imported the new sources as described in the manuals, with the tag NEWVERSION. cvs -q import

Re: Searching the Info-cvs list

2002-07-12 Thread gabriel rosenkoetter
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:08:08AM -0500, Vince Rice wrote: Which doesn't help him. The URL you give below provides a way to *view* the mail for a month at a time, or to download the text. It provides no way to search, which is what he is looking for. What, you don't have grep(1)? What

WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-12 Thread Kennedy, Todd
Hello all WinCVS and cvs guru's out there. I would like to solicit your help in solving a strange problem one of my users is having. I have a user that has taken over a PC from another user and is using WinCVS 1.10 to get files from a Solaris Build cvs 1.10 server. The user attempts to login and

recursive add ?!

2002-07-12 Thread Leif Hanack
hello, i have a simple question. i'm using wincvs 1.36 and wonder why i can not find a recursive add command? ok, i can use the import module command but therefore my new sources need to be outside the cvs controlled directory! but when i e.g. have a directory under controll called myproject

checkout different modules at one?!

2002-07-12 Thread Leif Hanack
hello, i have heard that it should be possible to check out different modules only by checking out one file. in that file the different packages are mentioned. is this correct?! where can i get details information about that? or do i need to write a macro?! is there a kind of macro database

Re: recursive add ?!

2002-07-12 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Leif Hanack wrote: hello, i have a simple question. i'm using wincvs 1.36 and wonder why i can not find a recursive add command? ok, i can use the import module command but therefore my new sources need to be outside the cvs controlled directory! but when i e.g.

Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Kennedy, Todd writes: I have a user that has taken over a PC from another user and is using WinCVS 1.10 to get files from a Solaris Build cvs 1.10 server. The user attempts to login and receives an exit code of 0 but when he tries to Update Files he gets a Not logged in error. So the user

Re: recursive add ?!

2002-07-12 Thread Matt Riechers
Leif Hanack wrote: hello, i have a simple question. i'm using wincvs 1.36 and wonder why i can not find a recursive add command? There isn't one. You have to add each new directory by hand before the contents of that directory can be added. -Matt

Re: checkout different modules at one?!

2002-07-12 Thread Matt Riechers
Leif Hanack wrote: hello, i have heard that it should be possible to check out different modules only by checking out one file. in that file the different packages are mentioned. Ampersand modules might do what you want: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC157 -Matt

Re: recursive add ?!

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Leif Hanack writes: i have a simple question. i'm using wincvs 1.36 and wonder why i can not find a recursive add command? Because CVS itself doesn't have a recursive add command? -Larry Jones I think grown-ups just ACT like they know what they're doing. -- Calvin

Re: Use of CVS in the context of Unix server, unix based developers and Windows (VC++) based developers.

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Arcin Bozkurt writes: Everything was fine, when everyone was working in Unix. When windows developers started changing code and committing them, the checkout on Linux and the diff on Linux started showing ^M characters for the lines updated. The diff in this context is using the PCL-CVS in

Re: z://cvsroot - No such file or directory?

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
El señor de los cielos writes: On the server (sistemas) I have a repository defined as z:/ Have you used cvs init to actually create that repository? -Larry Jones Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than

Re: Merging third party source

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Kaz Kylheku writes: The other alternative, assuming that it's been more than a day since you imported the previous snapshot, is to just do: cvs checkout -j Company:yesterday -j Company That's not a good idea because that won't allow CVS to detect removed files. Always use two

how to checkout a specific file from a Makefile

2002-07-12 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Suppose I checkout a module, but omit the file testscript. I can build and run the module, but not test it. Later I want to run the tests anyway with make test. The Makefile should then discover the tests haven't been checked out yet, and do this for me. I try to put this in the Makefile:

How do I fix this one? (working in the wrong dir/module)

2002-07-12 Thread Mullican, Catherine
Due to an out of date install doc, I checked out, modified, and checked in files in directory A. And then was told I should have been working with directory B instead. I've got B checked out now, but how can I best get my changes to files in directory A into the parallel files in directory B?

need help with check_cvs.pl

2002-07-12 Thread Applegate, JoAnne
I'm running the check_cvs.pl script and it keeps spitting out the same lines over and over again. cvs checkout: cannot find module `locked' - ignored cvs checkout: cannot find module `by:' - ignored cvs checkout: cannot find module `ghartman' - ignored I am not

Re: how to checkout a specific file from a Makefile

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Bram Moolenaar writes: testscript: cvs checkout testscript This doesn't work, because this is in a subdirectory of the module and the actual name is something like module/foo/bar/testscript. This would work: cd ../../.. cvs checkout

Re: How do I fix this one? (working in the wrong dir/module)

2002-07-12 Thread Matt Riechers
Mullican, Catherine wrote: Due to an out of date install doc, I checked out, modified, and checked in files in directory A. And then was told I should have been working with directory B instead. I've got B checked out now, but how can I best get my changes to files in directory A into the

Re: need help with check_cvs.pl

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Applegate, JoAnne writes: cvs checkout: cannot find module `locked' - ignored cvs checkout: cannot find module `by:' - ignored cvs checkout: cannot find module `ghartman' - ignored Another thought -- do you perhaps have files in your repository (accidentally) that

Re: need help with check_cvs.pl

2002-07-12 Thread Donald Sharp
I do believe that Larry is correct. If your using my check_cvs.pl script you can set the CVSDEBUGEDIT env variable to 1 and then see which file(s) it's not having fun with. donald On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:30:49PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: Applegate, JoAnne writes: cvs checkout:

An example please?

2002-07-12 Thread El señor de los cielos
Hi again, Being unable to solve my past issue, now I beg you to give me a simple example of how to use CVS. Here is what I've been trying so far: First take a look at the following tree: +z:/ --iBackup bin obj --other folders... So: 1. I create a repository in CVSNT for Z:/ (CVSNT

Re: how to checkout a specific file from a Makefile

2002-07-12 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Larry Jones wrote: Bram Moolenaar writes: testscript: cvs checkout testscript This doesn't work, because this is in a subdirectory of the module and the actual name is something like module/foo/bar/testscript. This would work: cd ../../.. cvs

Re: how to checkout a specific file from a Makefile

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Bram Moolenaar writes [quoting me]: Because checkout is the wrong subcommand. The subcommand you want, surprisingly enough, is update! Just do: cvs update testscript This indeed works. Thanks for the hint, I wouldn't have guessed this. The rule of thumb is that you use

Newbie CVS commitinfo question

2002-07-12 Thread Bryan Bunch
Hey everyone, I appologize in advance if this posted question appears twice on the list -- I initial posted it without joining (...my bad). I have a quick question about using the commitinfo admin file to perform a source-file check before commiting. Mabey the tool I should be

Re: lock-modify-unlock model with CVS

2002-07-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:09:28AM -0700, Noel Yap wrote: I've had experiences on a Solaris box in which patch didn't handle subdirectories (perhaps I wasn't using it properly). Solaris patch is severly broken, IME. Instead of investigating further, I chopped up the patch file into

Re: Binary files and sticky keyword substitution

2002-07-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 01:54:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that each code file has at least a difference due to the keyword substitution (different revision numbers). The way to handle this seems to be : cvs up -kk -j branch-tag This avoids the differences due to

Re: lock-modify-unlock model with CVS

2002-07-12 Thread Noel Yap
--- Eric Siegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:09:28AM -0700, Noel Yap wrote: I've had experiences on a Solaris box in which patch didn't handle subdirectories (perhaps I wasn't using it properly). Solaris patch is severly broken, IME. Instead of

Re: An example please?

2002-07-12 Thread Edmund
El señor de los cielos wrote: 1. I create a repository in CVSNT for Z:/ (CVSNT automatically initializes it), and another for Z:/iBackup. 2. I set the CVSROOT env var to :pserver:ivanv@sistemas:z:/ I'm just wondering. Since if you have CVSNT set up, why not just use ntserver, as opposed