CVS TAG

2002-12-06 Thread Euan Guttridge
Is there a way to tag a module (directory) in a repository directly (i.e. without checking it out first). When I use "cvs tag release_1 modulename" I obviously get;   cvs tag: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directorycvs tag: nothing known about bol-docstarcvs [tag abor

Re: CVS TAG

2002-12-06 Thread Matthew Rich
Take a look at the RTAG command that will tag a module without a checking out any code. Matt The RE Guy --- Euan Guttridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to tag a module (directory) in a > repository directly (i.e. > without checking it out first). When I use "cvs tag > release_1 mo

How do I unlock files?

2002-12-06 Thread WALTERS, CRAIG P [AG/1000]
We have an occasional problem where someone will lock a file and then leave the company without unlocking it. When this person leaves, their accounts are deleted. We then have a lot of difficulty unlocking the file so others can use it. I have tried unlocking it from an account in the cvsadmin g

RE: CVS TAG

2002-12-06 Thread Euan Guttridge
Worked, cheers. -Original Message- From: Matthew Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 December 2002 17:29 To: Euan Guttridge; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: CVS TAG Take a look at the RTAG command that will tag a module without a checking out any code. Matt The RE Guy --- Euan G

Re: How do I unlock files?

2002-12-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, December 6, 2002 at 11:45:28 (-0600), WALTERS, CRAIG P [AG/1000] wrote: ] > Subject: How do I unlock files? > > We have an occasional problem where someone will lock a file and then leave > the company without unlocking it. When this person leaves, their accounts > are deleted. Do no

update -l -r brnch dir doesn't seem to do anything

2002-12-06 Thread CHARLES HART, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK
I've used CVS for a bit over 24 hours, having used ClearCase for the past 16 years, and I am trying to get a handle on how NOT to get a whole directory dumped into my work area. We have a directory with approximately 1,500 source files in it. (No unfortunat ely, I can't make a smaller directory,

ANN: CVS Shell Extension

2002-12-06 Thread Wolfgang Loch
In order to make my daily live with CVS easier, I've build a shell extension, which integrates commonly uses CVS features into Windows Explorer. This makes CVS available right where I need it, without the need to open a command prompt or any other aplication. Maybe somebody else will find this sh

Binary update and merge problem

2002-12-06 Thread Walter Ghijsen
Hi, I'm running into problems with merging binary files from one branch into another. Our developers check in their code into the main_dev branch. CM (Configuration Management) does the equivalent of the following every night: 1. cvs checkout . This simply checks everything out from the

RE: CVS Shell Extension

2002-12-06 Thread Shatzer, Larry
http://www.tortoisecvs.org/ might be of intrest to you. > -Original Message- > From: Wolfgang Loch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ANN: CVS Shell Extension > > > In order to make my daily live with CVS easier, I've

RE: CVS Shell Extension

2002-12-06 Thread Shankar Unni
> http://www.wolosoft.com/en/cvs-ext/ Interesting. Questions: 1. What's different between this and TortoiseCVS? 2. You may want to consider a more visual difference between clean and modified than just a color difference: for those whose color acuity isn't great, or if the monitor dpi is too hi

to release or not to release

2002-12-06 Thread CHARLES HART, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK
If I am reading the documentation correctly, I can forgo the release command if I change history logging in config to ignore checkout/release events. All I need to do after that seems to be to use rm -rf * in the work directory. to get the same impact as release. -CTH

RE: CVS Shell Extension

2002-12-06 Thread Zieg, Mark
That was just so cool that I immediately wanted a cmd-line equivalent; ie, CVS info integrated into my normal directory listing, which happens to be 'ls -la' rather than Windows Explorer. If anyone else likes this, they're free to it: http://www.zieg.com/pub/cvsdir Mark Zieg -Origi

Re: CVS Shell Extension

2002-12-06 Thread mlh
You oughta add that to uservfs. http://uservfs.sourceforge.net/ I note as well that a CVS viewer for Nautilus exists: http://apotheke.berlios.de/ Matt Zieg, Mark wrote: That was just so cool that I immediately wanted a cmd-line equivalent; ie, CVS info integrated into my normal directory li

file permissions on ',v' files

2002-12-06 Thread Jericho
Hi all, I have a problem with permissions in directories under in my repository. I noticed today that some files were marked with 'write' permission for both the file owner and group. According to the cvs docs, these should only be 'read-only' and not be changed. I'm wondering if this is asso