Nubie question

2002-11-01 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
Hello all! Can anyone explain me how to get latest STABLE release of some package from CVS? Manual says that i have to use tags. But all examples in it contain tag's name, such as cvs update -r Release-02 But what if i dont know this name? Can I find it somehow? Is there a CVS command that

Problems restoring a file

2002-11-01 Thread Adam Cohen
I'm having trouble resurrecting a file that was removed. I've read section 7.2 of the cederqvist manual, but it doesn't solve my problem. The problem is that after removing the file and committing the change, I try to ressurrect it by typing cvs add oldballs (oldballs is the name of the

Re: Win4Lin

2002-11-01 Thread Steven Tryon
I'm using TkCVS for most of my work. I'll set up Tortoise under Win4Lin and let you know what happens. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 20:57, Glenn wrote: Hi all I'm new to the list so I thought it'd be polite to say hi before launching in with questions so - Hi ;-) That done... Has any one

problem commiting file to CVSROOT

2002-11-01 Thread Daniels, Dave F [PCS]
I have several files I'm trying to commit to a subdirectory of CVSROOT, but only the ,v file is being created. I'm concerened about this because some users may make changes without realizing the files aren't being updated correctly on the server. To work around this problem temporarily, I've

capture branch name with loginfo

2002-11-01 Thread Daniels, Dave F [PCS]
Is it possible to capture the branch information for an email created from a loginfo script? I'd like to include the branch a change was made to, not just the module. Thanks, Dave ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Providing the functionality of CVS as a library

2002-11-01 Thread Larry Jones
Alex Taler writes: My incentive for this comes from my experience with writing tools that wrap CVS. I found the parsing of the CVS output quite cumbersome, and prone to failure when I brought it to a new site. I know I'm not the only one who would benefit from such a library, so it seemed

Re: vendor branch imports, deleted files

2002-11-01 Thread Larry Jones
Nick Patavalis writes: On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:30:11PM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: (note that you *MUST* use the actual release tags for this to work as opposed to using branch:yesterday or any similar schemes) Why Because that's the only method that gives CVS sufficient

Re: Problems restoring a file

2002-11-01 Thread Larry Jones
Adam Cohen writes: I'm having trouble resurrecting a file that was removed. I've read section 7.2 of the cederqvist manual, but it doesn't solve my problem. The problem is that after removing the file and committing the change, I try to ressurrect it by typing cvs add oldballs (oldballs

Re: problem commiting file to CVSROOT

2002-11-01 Thread Larry Jones
Daniels, Dave F [PCS] writes: I have several files I'm trying to commit to a subdirectory of CVSROOT, but only the ,v file is being created. I'm concerened about this because some users may make changes without realizing the files aren't being updated correctly on the server. To work around

Re: problem commiting file to CVSROOT

2002-11-01 Thread Riechers, Matthew W
Daniels, Dave F [PCS] wrote: -I'm trying to import files to CVSROOT/commitmessage/filename -These files appear to import correctly, but only the ,v file is created on the server. -The checkoutlist file contains entries for the files that are being imported correctly, but not for those that

RE: problem commiting file to CVSROOT

2002-11-01 Thread Daniels, Dave F [PCS]
-I'm trying to import files to CVSROOT/commitmessage/filename One generally adds files to an existing directory rather than importing them. That's what I'm doing. Please don't get hung up on semantics. I tried to manually add the ones not working, then make a change and commit,

RE: Providing the functionality of CVS as a library

2002-11-01 Thread Shankar Unni
Alex Taler writes: I'm interested in working on providing the functionality of CVS as a library. I take it you mean the _client_ side of CVS as a library? Or are you talking about serving up CVS functionality from an embedded server? The first is quite useful - it would make it far more

Re: problem commiting file to CVSROOT

2002-11-01 Thread Larry Jones
Daniels, Dave F [PCS] writes: -I'm trying to import files to CVSROOT/commitmessage/filename One generally adds files to an existing directory rather than importing them. That's what I'm doing. Please don't get hung up on semantics. Terminology is very important when trying to

Linex need serious concurent version control software ?

2002-11-01 Thread Bogdan
I just wander if cvs can make merging kylix project files? My guess is that it will make a mess. If this is so, then there is a need to restrict concurrent programmers from editing Kylix project files at same time, but allow editing of .cpp files. Cvs version 1.11.2 is not capable of during that

Re: Linex need serious concurent version control software ?

2002-11-01 Thread Larry Jones
Bogdan writes: I just wander if cvs can make merging kylix project files? My guess is that it will make a mess. What exactly do you mean by project files? As long as they're text files, it should work pretty well. -Larry Jones Honey, are we out of aspirin again? -- Calvin's Dad

Re: problem commiting file to CVSROOT

2002-11-01 Thread Todd Denniston
Daniels, Dave F [PCS] wrote: I have several files I'm trying to commit to a subdirectory of CVSROOT, but only the ,v file is being created. I'm concerened about this because some users may make changes without realizing the files aren't being updated correctly on the server. To work around

Re: Linex need serious concurent version control software ?

2002-11-01 Thread david
I just wander if cvs can make merging kylix project files? My guess is that it will make a mess. I've never seen a Kylix project file, so I can't answer. If you could give several lines of an example (of course, if it doesn't work with lines, then CVS can't merge it), perhaps we could answer

Re: pserver login problem to Linux from Win2k

2002-11-01 Thread david
Ok, got this figured out. Just incase anyone wants to know: Here's what is happening: 1. J: is a networked drive connected to my home directory on our Linux server via Samba If that networked drive contains the repository, that's a bad idea. Most cases of CVS file corruption seem to happen

RE: Linex need serious concurent version control software ?

2002-11-01 Thread Shankar Unni
We need more serious accounting in version control software. (Rumble...) (Duck! Run!) ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: Nubie question

2002-11-01 Thread Riechers, Matthew W
Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: But what if i dont know this name? Can I find it somehow? Is there a CVS command that lists all tag names? cvs stat -v or cvs log -Matt ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems restoring a file

2002-11-01 Thread Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen writes: I'm having trouble resurrecting a file that was removed. I've read section 7.2 of the cederqvist manual, but it doesn't solve my problem. The problem is that after removing the file and committing the change, I try to ressurrect it by typing cvs add oldballs (oldballs

RE: Providing the functionality of CVS as a library

2002-11-01 Thread jlcarpenter
Isn't there a Java CVS client library used within jCVS? Unfortunately for me the library is under a GPL which doesn't let me use it within any ant tasks submitted to Jakarta. The Microsofties should be able to compile a Java library into a .NET assembly using J#. (One might have to touch up

RE: problem commiting file to CVSROOT

2002-11-01 Thread Daniels, Dave F [PCS]
I am not new to CVS. When I say 'users', I mean future administrators who may not be aware there's a problem. I'm familiar with the sections you referenced, but my problem is not addressed there (or anywhere else I can find.) I'm not talking about normal source files, I'm talking about

Re: Linex need serious concurent version control software ?

2002-11-01 Thread Bogdan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS Do you now that by cvs checkout your_project in another directory you are now longer reported by cvs editors despite you have files open for editing with command cvs edit in first directory. If you're not reported by cvs editors for what you have cvs

Re: Nubie question

2002-11-01 Thread Larry Jones
Dmitry Suzdalev writes: But what if i dont know this name? Can I find it somehow? Is there a CVS command that lists all tag names? Both cvs [r]log and cvs status -v can be used to list the tags on a file. -Larry Jones If I get a bad grade, it'll be YOUR fault for not doing the work for me!

Re: vendor branch imports, deleted files

2002-11-01 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Nick Patavalis wrote: I see that when I import a new vendor version (to the vendor branch), files that have been removed by the vendor (but not modified by me) are not removed. Is this a bug or a feature? Any sugestion for an easy way to find and remove these files?

Re: Win4Lin

2002-11-01 Thread Steven Tryon
Glenn, Loaded version Tortoise 1.0.4 under Win4Lin 4.0.7 (5.3.7). I'm getting WinOldApp errors at the end of each operation, but the operations are committing and updating as advertised. Steve On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 20:57, Glenn wrote: Hi all I'm new to the list so I thought it'd be polite

can't add with wincvs

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Buehler
I tried to apply to the list, but not sure if I am or not yet. So if you could email me directly, I would appreciate it. I am hoping that someone might be able to help me. My customer can't do without a GUI to work with cvs. I am not knowledgeable with either wincvs or cvs. Anyway, I get

Re: Linex need serious concurent version control software?

2002-11-01 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 1 Nov 2002, Bogdan wrote: I just wander if cvs can make merging kylix project files? My guess is that it will make a mess. Why don't you verify your hypothesis yourself before wasting everyone's time? Maybe Kylix project files *are* mergeable; if that is the case, then there had been no