Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Todd Denniston
Shankar Unni wrote: > > Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > Version control is a part of software configuration and > > change management. I thought that (what you said) is what > > it (change management) was all about! ;-) > > Argh. I don't think I'm getting my point across, am I? > > OK, forget I sa

RE: Administrivia -- RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Shabbir Poonawala
::I have just read that Mailman can be used to produce a ::Majordomo type roster of users, by email request (necessary, ::as I do not have shell access to the Mailman host) -- If I can ::get that roster (a couple thousand names), I will issue a ::serialized vacation tracer to each user, and wee

RE: Visual Studio .NET projects and CVS

2002-10-29 Thread Rob Piepul
> "Dror" == info-cvs-admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dror> Hi,=20 I think I need to clarify myself a little, what am I Dror> looking for is not a Visual Studio (.NET) plugin for CVS. Dror> My team is working on an Intranet project and using Visual Dror> Studio .NET. While w

When are keywords substituted?

2002-10-29 Thread Nick Patavalis
Reading from the CVS (info) manual [keyword substitution / using keywords]: To include a keyword string you simply include the relevant text string, such as `$Id$', inside the file, and commit the file. CVS will automatically expand the string *as part of the commit operation*. Is this t

RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Shankar Unni
Todd Denniston writes: > This is the point where you set down, add up what it > will cost your company to support your number of users > by putting addons on a ''cheapskates'' version control > system to support its use in the companies IP policy setup. Oh, please.. Well, is it the consensus of

looking for loginfo.pl

2002-10-29 Thread Brian Kowald
I cannot seem to locate loginfo.pl. According to some posts its in the source distribtion, so I downloaded the source to CVS from www.cvshome.org, but didn't see it. Could somebody please send me a loginfo.pl and the line from loginfo that calls it. Thanks a bunch, Brian _

Re: When are keywords substituted?

2002-10-29 Thread Larry Jones
Nick Patavalis writes: > > Is this true? I thought that expansion occured as a part of the > *export* (cvs checkout, cvs diff, cvs export, etc) operations. Both are correct. The actual process of expanding keywords happens during checkout, but committing a file containing keywords triggers an au

Re: Branching best practices with multiple OS releases

2002-10-29 Thread Kaz Kylheku
"Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > "Forrest" == Forrest Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My company is developing a Java application that we are releasing on > > several different platforms. We initially released it

Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Larry Jones
Shankar Unni writes: > > I.e. is the opposition to ACLs a matter of priorities, or philosophy? > If it is philosophy, is it the position of the maintainers that ACLs are > so evil that they will actively oppose any attempt by anyone to insert > such a feature into CVS, in order to protect innocent

RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Jones wrote: > A bit of both, I suspect. That's good to know. In any case, I'll take a closer look at the CVSNT stuff (I wish they hadn't gone and reformatted all their sources so much :-/), and see what's portable back to the main line.. Some basic features ("cvs passwd", "cvs ls",

Re: Upcoming dynamic CVSADM patch - 1 workspace >1 repositories for each file

2002-10-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:43:04PM -0800, Andy Glew wrote: > I originally posted this to the newsgroup fa.info-cvs, but it > appears to be oneway. Pardon if this is a repost. [It isn't. But only the (sparsely-tagged) "HTML" was readable in my plain-text mail client; the "text" version was all ru

RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 09:10:44 (-0800), Shankar Unni wrote: ] > Subject: RE: Per-modules readers/writers ? > > Well, is it the consensus of the maintainers that they will *never* > accept any access control feature patches for CVS? Nobody can arrive at any consensus on this kind of thi

Diffing reformatted code

2002-10-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:28:25AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: > In any case, I'll take a closer look at the CVSNT stuff (I wish they > hadn't gone and reformatted all their sources so much :-/), and see > what's portable back to the main line.. GNU wdiff might be useful. It's a diff that's word

RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Sander
The consensus of the maintainers has historically been to never add features that they don't personally need, unless somneone supplies code, documentation, and a regression suite. And then it gets integrated at their discretion. There are already at least two major splinter groups using features

RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 10:28:25 (-0800), Shankar Unni wrote: ] > Subject: RE: Per-modules readers/writers ? > > In any case, I'll take a closer look at the CVSNT stuff (I wish they > hadn't gone and reformatted all their sources so much :-/), and see > what's portable back to the main li

Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread david
> Todd Denniston writes: > > > This is the point where you set down, add up what it > > will cost your company to support your number of users > > by putting addons on a ''cheapskates'' version control > > system to support its use in the companies IP policy setup. > For rational values of "compan

RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Shankar Unni
I think this discussion has hit a wall, but I'll answer these points anyway. But I'm no longer pushing for such a feature to be included, because of the obvious reluctance of so many, so we can let this discussion drift away.. Greg Woods wrote: > If you're happy without real security then why don

RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 13:47:05 (-0800), Shankar Unni wrote: ] > Subject: RE: Per-modules readers/writers ? > > Cost? Utility? Stability? Good questions. What are _your_ answers? > (And besides, is it your contention that > Linux filesystem security is "real" security? All I have to

perl script to tag message text

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Herrmann
hi all, i was wondering if anyone had a simple script where you could say: script.pl modulename "message.*" TEMP_TAG (or similar) and it would tag each file with that message -- throwing an error if it didn't. I know this sounds kinda specific but hopefully someone has already needed it. I want

CVS checkout, excluding some files??

2002-10-29 Thread mmala
Hi Is there anyway to checkout the repository such that I can exclude some files?These files are needed for an older release but in the current version they are not needed.I know we can make a branch, but is there any other method to exclude just some files from checkout?They are in different dire