How to set CVS be the reserved checkout mode only?

2002-10-23 Thread LIU,SHI-ZHOU (HP-China,ex2)
Hi there, CVS server version:1.11.2 on HP-UX 11i CVS client: Win CVS 1.3.8.1 on Win2K How to set CVS be the reserved checkout mode only? I mean that if one checkout a file and edit it, before he/she commit it, other can't edit the file. Now, we use the rcslock.pl file according to the book: Ver

Re: Have CVS perform actions on all files before checking in?

2002-10-23 Thread Noel Yap
--- "Schoep, Grant @ STORM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to have CVS perform some type of > action on types of files > before checking it in? I'd like to configure our > server for all java and C++ > code to do some nicetys, like strip out ^M's and > replace bloody tabs with > spaces

Have CVS perform actions on all files before checking in?

2002-10-23 Thread Schoep, Grant @ STORM
Is it possible to have CVS perform some type of action on types of files before checking it in? I'd like to configure our server for all java and C++ code to do some nicetys, like strip out ^M's and replace bloody tabs with spaces where people put them in. Both actions I can manually do from the co

Re: using cvs to contol system files

2002-10-23 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 05:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone out there used to cvs to version control system files? > For instance, files in /etc. > > I'm working with 2 system admins who want to do this. We were going to make > the 'live' files a sandbox that they would share. I was hoping

RE: using cvs to contol system files

2002-10-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 17:38:05 (-0500), Miller Dale Contractor HQ AFWA wrote: ] > Subject: RE: using cvs to contol system files > > We use CVS for controlling our software but for the system files > I find that RCS is generally sufficient. > > RCS is simple to use and gives you vers

RE: using cvs to contol system files

2002-10-23 Thread Miller Dale Contractor HQ AFWA
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: using cvs to contol system files > > > Has anyone out there used to cvs to version control system files? > For instance, files in /etc. > We use CVS for controll

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:24:47PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > > The problem was, if one of the files was *deleted* on the branch, cvs > tag wouldn't move the tag for that file - you'd have to use cvs rtag for > it. The developer in question had done separate "cvs rm"s on the > mainline and the b

RE: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Oh, back at my previous employer, we had a branched development tree, and used to merge from the branch into the mainline on a regular basis. After each merge, we would tag the "last version merged into mainline" on the branch, and use that as the base for the cvs update -j the next time around. T

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:58:27PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > > I would think that with the situation above, doing a cvs tag > > VENDOR_R2_MERGED in the working directory where conflict resolution > > was finished would be the safest method, to be sure you tagged the > > resolved files and not

RE: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Shankar Unni
> I would think that with the situation above, doing a cvs tag > VENDOR_R2_MERGED in the working directory where conflict resolution > was finished would be the safest method, to be sure you tagged the > resolved files and not something else. On the other hand, if you have *deleted* a file, cvs

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:02:10PM +0300, Nick Patavalis wrote: > > ...Though I also have some confused ideas about what exactly HEAD > means. Could please a CVS guru give us a precise *definition* of what > the HEAD tag is? > Looking arround I find this which comes close to being a precise defin

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:49:36PM -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > Nick Patavalis wrote: > > > > You merge the local changes > > > > cvs co -j VENDOR_R1 -j VENDOR_R2 > > > > You resolve the confilicts, test the new sources, and generaly make > > sure that everything is stable. Then commit your

using cvs to contol system files

2002-10-23 Thread vi1pdqyo02
Has anyone out there used to cvs to version control system files? For instance, files in /etc. I'm working with 2 system admins who want to do this. We were going to make the 'live' files a sandbox that they would share. I was hoping to have them edit files by logging in to their regular accounts,

tag vs rtag question, was Re: Merging from vendor-branch to branch

2002-10-23 Thread Todd Denniston
Nick Patavalis wrote: > > You merge the local changes > > cvs co -j VENDOR_R1 -j VENDOR_R2 > > You resolve the confilicts, test the new sources, and generaly make > sure that everything is stable. Then commit your changes. Several > commits may be necesairy since the conflict resolution may

Info about tags

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
Is there any way to get, via a script of something, information about the tags in a CVS-controlled tree? I want for example to answer the questions like the following: What tags exist, listed in chronological order? What are the names of the tags corresponding to vendor-branch imports, in c

RE: cvs [checkout aborted]

2002-10-23 Thread Zieg, Mark
> Can someone please tell me how to get off this mailing list? Scroll down to this link: http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs Then scroll down to where it mentions "unsubscribe from Info-cvs". (Note that individuals may still 'cc' you on existing threads in which you may have participa

RE: cvs [checkout aborted]

2002-10-23 Thread Ceron, Jay
Can someone please tell me how to get off this mailing list? Thanks -Original Message- From: Miller Dale Contractor HQ AFWA [mailto:Dale.Miller@;afwa.af.mil] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cvs [checkout

RE: cvs [checkout aborted]

2002-10-23 Thread Miller Dale Contractor HQ AFWA
Pushpa also writes: > In the server in inetd.conf file have the following line > etc/inetd,conf > cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/home/cvsroot/acca_c1b pserver You also need to correct your inetd entry to not specify the particular module. You want: --a

Re: CVS Server on Novell?

2002-10-23 Thread Jon Miner
(By "Novell machine", I'm assuming you mean a Netware server.. :) In pserver mode, no. Using direct repository access, it should be fine. Back in the day I was a heavily involved in Netware programming, and there should be no real reason that you couldn't run the pserver on a Netware server. Yo

Re: cvs [checkout aborted]

2002-10-23 Thread Larry Jones
Pushpa writes: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! > cvs server: cannot find module `acca_c1b' - ignored > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot expand modules > I am getting this error when I

file conflicts 'move away'

2002-10-23 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi, I'm working on several machines on the same project. One of them is my home machine, which does not have access to the CVS server. That means I regularly zip (or tar) all the relevant files, work on them at home, unzip the new files at work, and then want to synchronise the archive. This usual

Re: Merging from vendor-branch to branch

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:28:43PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > In effect, that after the import a user checking out from the branch > > might get files from the newer vendor version? > > No, that's one thing that shouldn't happen. Indeed that's part of the > problem though -- after an import

Re: CVS vs ClearCase, was RE: cvs -n update vs cvs diff

2002-10-23 Thread Noel Yap
--- "Johnson, Susan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm used to ClearCase, where a person worked within > a > dynamic view and you could build, label (tag), > branch, > merge and do everything within the same workspace. > > How does CVS differ from that model? This is pretty much how I use CVS. On