Re: set 1 file in repository to be read only

Tumy, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >This is sort of an abuse of the cvs system which is intended to allow > >users to make changes to files they checkout of the repository... > > Is there a better to do this? I am not able to think of any better way to do this. > I want each developer to

RE: set 1 file in repository to be read only

>This is sort of an abuse of the cvs system which is intended to allow >users to make changes to files they checkout of the repository... Is there a better to do this? I want each developer to be able to have the entire project on their local machines so that they can test from their local install

Re: set 1 file in repository to be read only

Tumy, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So what it appears I would need to do using this method is have some sort of > regular expression search for the file name that is restricted. If this > file name is found then it should return a non-zero exit status and the > commit on that file will fail

RE: set 1 file in repository to be read only

So what it appears I would need to do using this method is have some sort of regular expression search for the file name that is restricted. If this file name is found then it should return a non-zero exit status and the commit on that file will fail. Sounds complicated actually...maybe I am miss

Re: set 1 file in repository to be read only

Tumy, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This question is more for a sanity check then anything else. > > If I want one specific file in the repository to be read-only (to all > developers) then I just set the permissions on that file (through OS > [Solaris]) to be read-only ...correct? No. >

Re: sspi

Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello there, > Does anyone know how to switch from pserver to sspi when connecting to cvs? > In other words, how to set the cvs using sspi? The cvshome.org version of CVS does not support the :sspi: method. You will need to look into using http://www.cvsnt.org w

How connect to CVS sever via ssh

Hello to everybody, I tried to configure WinCVS to connect to CVS server via ssh , I generated private and public RSA keys, moved private key to local host and etc. But when I try execute any operation on WinCVS it demand to enter password, whereas I connect to my server from dos by executing "

set 1 file in repository to be read only

This question is more for a sanity check then anything else. If I want one specific file in the repository to be read-only (to all developers) then I just set the permissions on that file (through OS [Solaris]) to be read-only ...correct? We are developing a web-application in Cold Fusion and I

sspi

Hello there, Does anyone know how to switch from pserver to sspi when connecting to cvs? In other words, how to set the cvs using sspi? Thank you much. Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

[ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 15:23:16 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] > Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored > > I agree with the first part, but I don't believe that the second part > was really considered by the designer and the implementation came out > the way it did by default. Actually

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

>--- Forwarded mail from Greg Woods: >[ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 14:00:12 (-0700), Kaz Kylheku wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored >> >> I think that .cvsblock is silly; the tiny semantics difference between >> that and .cvsignore is not worth it. The cvs add command should

RE: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:25, Hill, Benjamin W wrote: > ...but when I enter a password I get: > > "cvs [login aborted]: connect to [SERVERNAME]([SERVERNAME]):2401 failed: No > connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." > Some ideas Since you are running CVS th

Re: Deleting a branch....

Gurpreet Singh (SCM) wrote: > Hi All > > This is regarding deleting a branch, thus created on a Module. > Is there any specific method / decription in doing it so ? > > Well I tried to untag it ^ with the following command > > cvs rtag -d BranchName ModuleName > Is this the only way to do so..

Re: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

Hill, Benjamin W writes: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; Please do not post MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! > cvs login [USERNAME] login does not take any parameters (it gets everything from CVSROOT). > "cvs [login aborted]: conne

Re: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

Hill, Benjamin W writes: > > And I can authenticate, and then check out code in the repository fine. The > problem is when I try to connect to the server remotely and do the same > thing. See the troubleshooting advice in the manual:

Re: Input read error: editor session failed

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Larry Jones wrote: > Calvin Smith writes: > > > > Input read error > > cvs server: warning: editor session failed > > The CVS server is trying to run the editor rather than the client. That > doesn't work because the server isn't connected to any terminal. There > was a bug t

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

[ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 14:00:12 (-0700), Kaz Kylheku wrote: ] > Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored > > I think that .cvsblock is silly; the tiny semantics difference between > that and .cvsignore is not worth it. The cvs add command should ignore > things that match .cvsignore, peri

Re: correct protocol to list a directory?

You might want to consider the libcvs project. We already have a mostly workable library in Perl, which should see its first release sometime soon. http://libcvs.cvshome.org/ Alex > "Danny" == Danny Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Danny> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danny> Subject: correct

RE: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

Hi, I have been through the troubleshooter, but not found anything I haven't tried. When I try to connect to the server from a Windows machine using: set cvsroot=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/repository cvs login [USERNAME] ..I get the line: "CVS password:" ...but when I enter a password I

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

Mark D. Baushke writes: > > The big thing to remember that is different between cvs import and cvs add > is that an import happens immediately while an add does not happen until > the 'cvs commit' occurs and any time up until the 'cvs commit' you may > remove files from the list of those that shou

Re: Input read error: editor session failed

Calvin Smith writes: > > Input read error > cvs server: warning: editor session failed The CVS server is trying to run the editor rather than the client. That doesn't work because the server isn't connected to any terminal. There was a bug that was fixed a release or two ago that would cause th

Re: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

"Gurpreet Singh (SCM)" writes: > > 2. /etc/servicesfor: > cvspserver 2401/tcp# cvspserver > cvspserver 2401/udp# cvspserver CVS has never used UDP (and almost certainly never will), so there's no reason to have the second line. -Larry

Re: correct protocol to list a directory?

Danny Sauer writes: > > The list > archives menstion using the "rlog" command, which has apperently been > deprecated in favor of "log" - and rlog doesn't work any better for me > anyway. What release of CVS are you running? rlog *used* to be a deprecated synonym for the log command, now it's a

Re: info-cvs@gnu.org

> Because even trivial features are expensive... sheesh. you've got all the hooks there to do it, the logic there to do it, it would probably be 5 lines of code, and about 4 lines of documentation. That's expensive? Its the philosophical part you don't like, and you really should let the user deci

Re: A series of CVS questions.

Sam Talebbeik writes: > > I have a long list of feature questions about CVS. I have used CVS on a > previous project years back. I am currently using a "commercial" product > in my present project. I would like to know if certain features of > this "commercial" product are or will be available i

Re: WinCvs1.2 - Problem

Jayashree writes: > > I am facing a peculiar problem with check in/out in CVS. I > am using Wincvs 1.2 version. I checked out a > document of size 5kb. Updated some sections and > checked in. ( forced binary format). ( Size is 7 KB now). I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "forced binary f

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Peschko, Edward wrote: > >> If we don't want .exe files in the repository, the add command should defend that > >> decision for us, even if weakly. > > > I happen to disagree strongly . . . There's nothing I hate more than software that > > knows > > more than I do.. etc. et

Re: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification withchangesintroduced into committed file version

Uri Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks a lot for your responses guys. > > Could you clarify How can I run "cvs diff" command from one of the > scripts with I included into loginfo file. It seems to me that "cvs > diff" command works only when it is executed from working directory. > Is

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

[ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 11:42:37 (-0700), Peschko, Edward wrote: ] > Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored > > But that's what I don't understand. The idea behind .cvsblock (or TYPES or whatever) > is to be able > to *customize* the software to be able to exclude files. What you don'

RE: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

I only have xinetd as it is RH9, but I have the /etc/services entry in there. I have tried the IP also, and no luck :-( Cheers, Ben -Original Message- From: Gurpreet Singh (SCM) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 June 2003 13:03 To: Hill, Benjamin W Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE

Deleting a branch....

Hi All This is regarding deleting a branch, thus created on a Module. Is there any specific method / decription in doing it so ? Well I tried to untag it ^ with the following command cvs rtag -d BranchName ModuleName Is this the only way to do so..? Moreover, All the subfolders were not

correct protocol to list a directory?

I'm trying to write a pserver client in perl that'll generate a directory listing from a CVS pserver (though, I suppose pserver has little to do with it at that point in the communication chain). There's actually a larger goal here, but the dir listing is my main remaining problem. Here's what I'

Input read error: editor session failed

I am getting an error that I have seen other posts about but not been able to find a solution to. When I try to commit a file, I get the following error: Input read error cvs server: warning: editor session failed Log message unchanged or not specified a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit, !)reuse this mess

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

>> If we don't want .exe files in the repository, the add command should defend that >> decision for us, even if weakly. > I happen to disagree strongly . . . There's nothing I hate more than software that > knows > more than I do.. etc. etc. etc But that's what I don't understand. The idea beh

RE: .cvsignore file being ignored

[ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 15:45:52 (-0300), Alexandre Augusto Drummond Barroso wrote: ] > Subject: RE: .cvsignore file being ignored > > Sometimes we need to protect some users from themselves. > Usually I don't do what I'll describe here with regular IT > users, but I have an exception: non

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

Peschko, Edward writes: > > Why the resistance to what would be a trivial feature? Because even trivial features are expensive. They clutter up the code, the test suite, the documentation, and the users' minds. In this case, it encourages a bad, some would even say dangerous, habbit (expecting

RE: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification withchanges introduced into committed file version

Uri Abramov writes: > Could you clarify How can I run "cvs diff" command from one > of the scripts with I included into loginfo file. It seems to > me that "cvs diff" command works only when it is executed > from working directory. > Is it right ? > If yes , Does anybody know any workaround ?

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 01:02, Frederic Brehm wrote: > At 10:08 AM 6/5/2003, Larry Jones wrote: > >There's nothing I hate more than software that thinks it > >knows more than I do and refuses to let me do what I want to do. > > The principal of least surprises should be Commandment #1 of the Softwar

Re: web site management / security issues

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 02:38, Menge, Oliver wrote: > My second question is about client/server cvs, which is rather new to me. > The internet host where I would like to have the repository is a W2K > machine and I have to live with that. Cederquist says: > I have not much idea of Windows' security

Re: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification withchanges

Uri Abramov writes [still in very long lines]: > > Could you clarify How can I run "cvs diff" command from one of the > scripts with I included into loginfo file. It seems to me that "cvs > diff" command works only when it is executed from working directory. The loginfo script runs in the workin

RE: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

Specific error ... Still may Check with the following file 1. /etc/inetd.conf for : cvspserver stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/cvs -f --allow-root=/CVS/repository pserver 2. /etc/servicesfor: cvspserver 2401/tcp# cvspserver cvspserver

RE: .cvsignore file being ignored

Sometimes we need to protect some users from themselves. Usually I don't do what I'll describe here with regular IT users, but I have an exception: non technical users that creates docbook documents in the company I work for. The only thing they know is to click buttons in a specified order. I

Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem

I am setting up a CVS repository on a Redhat 9 Linux server in a directory "/cvs/repository", but am having some problems. I have set up the repository, and on the box itself can do a: bash# export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/repository bash# cvs login And I can authenticate, and the

RE: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification withchangesintroduced into committed file version

Thanks a lot for your responses guys. Could you clarify How can I run "cvs diff" command from one of the scripts with I included into loginfo file. It seems to me that "cvs diff" command works only when it is executed from working directory. Is it right ? If yes , Does anybody know any workarou

web site management / security issues

Hello, I bekame webmaster of a small web site and want to introduce cvs as source repository for html and the like. I used cvs successfully for software projects and assume that it's well suited for a html-directory tree. Somebody disagrees? My second question is about client/server cvs, which i

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

At 10:08 AM 6/5/2003, Larry Jones wrote: There's nothing I hate more than software that thinks it knows more than I do and refuses to let me do what I want to do. The principal of least surprises should be Commandment #1 of the Software Engineers Ten Commandments (requirements for the other nine a

Re: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification withchanges introduced into committed file version

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 22:38, Uri Abramov wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions : > > 1. Is it possible to add new administrative file under CVSROOT in such way that it > would be treated by cvs as it treads it's native administrative files. I mean always > keep in repository file,v and file.

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:19:44PM -0700, Peschko, Edward wrote: > [ Larry Jones wrote:] > > Damn straight. If you want software that thinks it knows more than you > > etc... > > But that goes contrary to the dictum "there's more than one way to do it". Umm, you've got the wrong Larry :-) No

Re: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification with changes

Uri Abramov writes [in very long lines]: > > 1. Is it possible to add new administrative file under CVSROOT in such > way that it would be treated by cvs as it treads it's native > administrative files. I mean always keep in repository file,v and file. > If it' possible how can I do it ?

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

Paul Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Consider the use of "cvs import", which obeys the .cvsignore file. Yes, that 'cvs import' obeys the .cvsignore file is somewhat broken. The '-I !' command-line option should be honored and should NOT process either local .cvsignore files or the global C

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

Kaz Kylheku writes: > > This is as it should be. The TYPES file represents the project's > policy; some random user command should not override that policy. If we > don't want .exe files in the repository, the add command should defend > that decision for us, even if weakly. I happen to disagree,

Re: Is it possible to make CVS send email notification with changesintroduced into committed file version

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:38:42AM -0400, Uri Abramov wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions : > > 1. Is it possible to add new administrative file under CVSROOT in such way that it > would be treated by cvs as it treads it's native administrative files. I mean always > keep in repository file

Re: HOWTO: debug pserver

Peschko, Edward writes: > > 3) run the cvs command that you want to debug or trace with CVS_CLIENT_LOG, > against the copied cvs tree. Note that you need to use a cvs tree with pserver, > not :ext. That is not true, *any* client/server mode will work. I usually use :fork:. > Caveats: N