Re: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Donald Sharp
Ick. I hate keyword expansions. The minute you ever merge between branches you have to deal with those keywords. donald On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:18:45PM +0100, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:53:33PM -0500, Robert Clark wrote: If you are not too worried a

Re: Treating several related files as one atomic thing

2003-11-03 Thread Bryce Nesbitt (spam account)
bryce_nesbitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/spam.html writes: /I'd like CVS to enforce treating these six files as one atomic/ /object, with a single revision history./ You could put them into an archive (eg tar) and check that in. Then your build system would be in charge of unpacking

RE: Problem with pserver

2003-11-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Larsson Mattias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using the latest stable version of cvs here at work for out developers but we have ran into trouble. It seems some users can't access the cvs via pserver from home either ISDN or modem connecting to the corp lan. Can you be more

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Todd Denniston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim.Hyslop wrote: echo ^RCS file:filerev echo ^revision filerev cvs log -rCURRENT_TAG | grep -f filerev I think the above may give you some false positives, the files in the Attic (dead don't have the tag) lists all revs in the

Problem with pserver

2003-11-03 Thread Larsson Mattias
Hi there! We are using the latest stable version of cvs here at work for out developers but we have ran into trouble. It seems some users can't access the cvs via pserver from home either ISDN or modem connecting to the corp lan. From work it works like a charm, no problems at all but home

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Todd Denniston
Jim.Hyslop wrote: Katherine King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Now, having said all that, if they want to see if something's changed, they can use the diff command: cvs diff -rPREVIOUS_TAG -rCURRENT_TAG filename If diff says nothing, then the file has not changed. To get

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Jamie Wellnitz
Well cvs up -kk -j branch-tag-1 -j branch-tag-2 seems to work okay for me to avoid problems with merging the keywords (I think we've only used $Id$, though). -- Jamie Wellnitz On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:05:49AM -0500, Donald Sharp wrote: Ick. I hate keyword expansions. The minute you ever

WinCVS with Putty

2003-11-03 Thread Alex Chen
Hi, I am using WinCVS 1.3 along with PuTTY for authentication. I have set up the public/private key pairs with PuTTYgen and Pageant. I can login to the system without providing password: CVS login message from PuTTY== login as: achen Sent username achen Authenticated using RSA key

File ownership

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Jaffe
While browsing one of our repositories, I came across a part of the tree that did not belong where it was. It appeared as if one of the developers had done an import into the tree from her work area (the top of the checkin was CVS_WORK which was a locally-defined convention.) I noticed the file

RE: File ownership

2003-11-03 Thread Gagneet Singh
Hi! The repository files are marked according to the user who logins into the CVS server for making commits. But before that the user has to checkout the files in his/her name and then only can he check them in. The other way for a user to do this is to use a script to change all his local

Re: File ownership

2003-11-03 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:19 pm, Mark Jaffe wrote: How would it be possible for the files to be marked as owned by that user if she did not check them in? Is it possible we cannot trust the CVS server to write the files properly? It would not be prudent for another developer to use someone else's

Re: CVS server set up

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Priest
Krishna, The error message indicates that your cvs client is configured to use rsh instead of ssh. You will need to set the CVS_RSH environment variable to point to the ssh client executable (i.e. set CVS_RSH=plink). You should use plink instead of Putty (available from the same website) since