Re: Changing CVS repository name

2003-10-30 Thread Lars Thuring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Thuring wrote: | Also we did not find a solution to multi-user access control to different modules so we are skipping that. The NFS mount point will only be used by a cron command to do the nightly backup of the repository

modules aliases

2003-10-30 Thread Rosa Macias
Can anyone confirm that the sentence in bold is really true? mname -a aliases... "This represents the simplest way of defining a module mname. The `-a' flags the definition as a simple alias: cvs will treat any use of mname (as a command argument) as if the list of names aliases had been specif

Knowing what happens to branches

2003-10-30 Thread Tony Ennis
We're pretty comfortable with CVS here. We have several projects, but a few are large and sometimes there can be 2 or 3 of us working on different parts at the same time. We each make our own branch from a production tag, do our work, and merge the changes back to another branch (or HEAD, dependi

RE: vss2cvs

2003-10-30 Thread Bert Robbins
Title: vss2cvs Steven,   I have found that it is much easier, when dealing with VSS, to do activities in smaller chunks. Having previously, within the last six months, performed numerous migrations of data from VSS to CVS I found that converting projects, and even sub-projects, works better

Re: Knowing what happens to branches

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Jones
Tony Ennis writes: > > 1) Why a branch was made > 2) The last date a change was made to any file on that branch > 3) What branch this branch was merged into > 4) When #3 happened > > I know CVS has some logging capabilities, but I didn't see what I was > looking for (with the possible exception o

Re: modules aliases

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Jones
Rosa Macias writes: > > Can anyone confirm that the sentence in bold is really true? > > mname -a aliases... > > "This represents the simplest way of defining a module mname. The `-a' flags > the definition as a simple alias: cvs will treat any use of mname (as a > command argument) as if the li

Re: Changing CVS repository name

2003-10-30 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Thuring wrote: | What we did to test this was to create a user "cvs" (also with a group with the same name) which owned all the directories in the /data hierarchy, so that owner and group of all files was set to "cvs". Using CVSROOT/passwd to set

Re: Help merging vendor branch:

2003-10-30 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Hi Derek: | |I am sorry, I am still a bit new to CVS. I don't know what val-tags are? ~http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.12.2/cvs_2.html#SEC13 (search for val-tags) and ~http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-

symbolically linked module root

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin Layer
I want to give a contractor access to one module in my repository. Let's say I have this situation: cvsroot/ CVSROOT moda modb modc ... Because I have a large number of checkouts of `modc', I can't just move it to a new repository. I'm thinking of creating a new repository directory li

Re: Help merging vendor branch:

2003-10-30 Thread Dan . Crea
Hello again. Okay...I am now officially lost. ( and thoroughly confused! ) I have read all the CVS manual and I have been screwing around with this for several hours and I still can't get this to work. I guess I really don't understand how merging works. Anyway, back to what I am trying to do.

Re: Changing CVS repository name

2003-10-30 Thread Lars Thuring
Hi Derek, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you chmod g+wrx /data or chmod -R g+wrx /data? What error messages were you seeing? Being in /data I typed chmod -R 775 cvsrep or being in / using chmod -R 775 /data/cvsrep - one of these I am no 100% sure now. I *am* sure we used a numerical argument

Re: Changing CVS repository name

2003-10-30 Thread Lars Thuring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another idea; we tried this quickly before doing the above. Should it not be possible to assoaciate different cvspserver files with different port numbers? So to have the cvs server to look on port 2401, 2402 and so on for different users? It doesn't matter now when the

Re: Changing CVS repository name

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Jones
Lars Thuring writes: > > setgid failed: Operation not permitted You have to run the server as root (from [x]inetd) if you want it to be able to change user/group. > Another idea; we tried this quickly before doing the above. Should it > not be possible to assoaciate different cvspserver f

Re: Help merging vendor branch:

2003-10-30 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dan, If the previous version of the vendor branch you merged was tagged as doxygen_1-3-3 and b_code_cleanup is a branch, then the following might be useful: cvs co -r b_code_cleanup -d b_code_cleanup MG_HEDGE cd b_code_cleanup If you wa

Re: symbolically linked module root

2003-10-30 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Layer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to give a contractor access to one module in my repository. > Let's say I have this situation: > > cvsroot/ > CVSROOT > moda > modb > modc > ... > > Because I have a large number of checkout

how to know who's checked out some files...

2003-10-30 Thread Alberto Ortega
  Any idea if there is a way to know what users have checked out what files?   Alberto Ortega IT Developer Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healhcare in BC (p) 604.660.1045 (f)  604.775.1885 (e) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (w) www.oshsa.bc.ca   _

Re: Help merging vendor branch:

2003-10-30 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Robert Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark D. Baushke wrote: > > | If you didn't have such a doxygen_1-3-3 tag, then you might need to use > | the vendor tag from the import (say for example you called it > | doxygen_vendor): > | > | c

Re: how to know who's checked out some files...

2003-10-30 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any idea if there is a way to know what users have checked out what > files? Read: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/current/cvs_8.html#SEC77 For more active notifications, see also http://www.cvsho

Re: Multilevel vendor branch import

2003-10-30 Thread Rodolfo Schulz de Lima
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:37:21PM -0500, Ross Patterson wrote: > But the good news is that it doesn't look like what you're trying to do is > all that hard with normal CVS. Instead of trying to "cvs import" each > release, try just checking the updated code in to CVS. Tag it where tags > make

Re: how to know who's checked out some files...

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Jones
Alberto Ortega writes: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! > Any idea if there is a way to know what users have checked out what > files? No. Why do you care? -Larry Jones I think grown-

Re: Help merging vendor branch:

2003-10-30 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark D. Baushke wrote: | If you didn't have such a doxygen_1-3-3 tag, then you might need to use | the vendor tag from the import (say for example you called it | doxygen_vendor): | | cvs co -r b_code_cleanup -d b_code_cleanup MG_HEDGE | cd b_c

Re: symbolically linked module root

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin Layer
Mark D. Baushke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kevin Layer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I want to give a contractor access to one module in my repository. >> > Let's say I have this situation: >> > >> > cvsroot/ >> > CVSROOT >> > moda >> > modb >> > modc >> > ... >> > >> > Becau

Re: Help merging vendor branch: ( thanks )

2003-10-30 Thread Dan . Crea
Hello all: Thanks for all the help. With the information you gave me I was able to get this to merge onto my branch. Thanks again! Dan "Mark D. Baushke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/30/2003 11:20 AM To: Derek Robert Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc:

cvs branching... the usual questions?

2003-10-30 Thread Alexander von Below
Sorry if these questions have been asked over and over and over, but my brain hurts from reading the cederquist and various tutorials, and I still don't get it... I have a version of my source with, say, a tag "VERSION1BETA". Now I checked it out, modified a few files, but wanted to branch thes

checkin comments between tags

2003-10-30 Thread David Muller
Title: checkin comments between tags How do I get a list of all the checking comments between 2 labels (or since the last label). -Dave David E. Muller Configuration Manager Overture Services, Inc.  www.overture.com Office: 760.476.6406 Mobile: 760.

cvs win32 version saves time in local-time format

2003-10-30 Thread Jordi Castells
I found that cvs for windows platforms save in the entries file the time of files under control using local time instead of gmt time i check the same under linux and the time into entries file is saved in gmt format the problem occurs twice a year (when hour changes from summer to winter and vice

Re: checkin comments between tags

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Jones
David Muller writes: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! > How do I get a list of all the checking comments between 2 labels (or > since the last label). Have you tried reading the manual?

RE: cvs win32 version saves time in local-time format

2003-10-30 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Jordi Castells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found that cvs for windows platforms save in the entries > file the time > of files under control using local time instead of gmt time That's strange, I see GMT in my CVS\Entries file; I'm using cvs 1.11.5 on Windows NT Workstation 4.0. I also ch

RE: cvs branching... the usual questions?

2003-10-30 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Alexander von Below [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry if these questions have been asked over and over and > over, but my > brain hurts from reading the cederquist and various tutorials, and I > still don't get it... > > I have a version of my source with, say, a tag "VERSION1BETA". Now