Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re: cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Copeland
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no > matter how much I try I'll never be able to use branches meaningfully in > such a repository, Hm. Do CVS branches not work right with binary files? I've used repositories

Update aborted?

2003-09-09 Thread Larry Lords
When I try to do a cvs update I get the following error: C:\sandbox\us: cvs -q update -d ? lib/internal-1.0/.new.cvsutil.jar U lib/internal-1.0/cvsutil.jar cvs [update aborted]: cannot rename file .new.cvsutil.jar to cvsutil.jar: No such file or directory Error, CVS operation failed" Does a

How to go from SUN's teamware to cvs?

2003-09-09 Thread "Dehmel, RĂ¼diger"
Hello, where is the best starting point for us? (3 developers). we use Sun's teamware for many years and now we need a Linux server based system. What about the directory tree copy and modification (source file name change) when doing a workspace bring over or put back. This has nothing to-do wi

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no > > matter how much I try I'll never be able to use branches meaningfully in > > such a repository, > > Hm. Do CVS branches not wo

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Copeland
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no > > > matter how much I try I'll never be able to use branches meaningfully in

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no > > > > matter how much I try

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Copeland
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:06, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > > Right... although in the case of 3rd party libraries, the line gets a > > bit blurry. If my project depends on, say, BCEL, I think it's > > reasonable for me to check the BCEL jar file into my module/lib

RE: Update aborted?

2003-09-09 Thread Shankar Unni
> ? lib/internal-1.0/.new.cvsutil.jar > U lib/internal-1.0/cvsutil.jar > cvs [update aborted]: cannot rename file .new.cvsutil.jar to > cvsutil.jar: No such file or directory You're using Jbuilder on Windows, aren't you? :-) In general, if any program on Windows has a file opened, you cannot ren

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re: cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Copeland
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:53, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at 10:10:46 (-0400), Tom Copeland wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re:cvs > > diff, proposal for change > > > > Hm. Do CVS branches not work right with binary f

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re: cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at 10:10:46 (-0400), Tom Copeland wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re: cvs > diff, proposal for change > > Hm. Do CVS branches not work right with binary files? It depends on what you mean by "work". Merging bra

Re: CVS and gdbm?

2003-09-09 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5 Sep, Max Bowsher wrote: >> > Is there any further info on configuring CVS to use gdbm? Especially, >> > benchmarks? >> >> No benchmarks, but the "appropriate edits" to use gdbm exist in the Cygwin >> package of cvs. > > Interesting. That would explain the rece

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Paul Sander
>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: >> > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: >> > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no >> > > matter how much I try I'

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re: cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread david
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:53, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > [ On Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at 10:10:46 (-0400), Tom Copeland wrote: ] > > > Subject: Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re: cvs > > > diff, proposal for change > > > > > > Hm. Do CVS branches not work right wit

Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was cvs diff, proposal for change

2003-09-09 Thread Paul Sander
>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: >> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: >> > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: >> > > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries in