Re: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-08 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:34:02PM -0400 Larry Jones wrote: However, I now believe its not that simple, as the binary files(only) must be initialized with the -kb option. Is that correct? If so, any suggestions on the simplest/easiest to go about this? If you can distinguish

Re: Any CVS tricks for creating patch files?

2004-06-08 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:46:20PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To create a patch, I could do this: % cvs co -d buggy -r Release_0_1 MyProj % cvs co -d fixed -r Release_0_1_Bugfixes MyProj % LC_ALL=C TZ=UTC0 diff -Naur buggy fixed Release_0_1_Patch ...but I wonder

RE: Any CVS tricks for creating patch files?

2004-06-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: $ cvs rdiff -uN -r Release_0_1 -r Releae_0_1_Bugfixes What does the -N flag do? It isn't documented. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)

Re: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 19, Issue 17

2004-06-08 Thread Bret A Cooper
Hello, * On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:34:02PM -0400 Larry Jones wrote: However, I now believe its not that simple, as the binary files(only) must be initialized with the -kb option. Is that correct? If so, any suggestions on the simplest/easiest to go about this? If you can distinguish

Re: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 19, Issue 17

2004-06-08 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello Bret, * On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:50:36PM -0400 Bret A Cooper wrote: Thanks for your reponse. It prompts a couple more questions. When you went back and ran the cvs admin command, did you have to run it once for every file you wanted to change? Yes, this has to be run for every

cvs format strings

2004-06-08 Thread Jason Novotny
Hi, After upgrading cvs due to the vulnerability, I see the following: cvs commit: warning: Set to use deprecated info format strings. Establish compatibility with the new info file format strings (add a temporary '1' in all info files after each '%' which doesn't represent a literal percent)

Re: Any CVS tricks for creating patch files?

2004-06-08 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello Jim, * On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:03:27AM -0400 Jim.Hyslop wrote: Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: $ cvs rdiff -uN -r Release_0_1 -r Releae_0_1_Bugfixes What does the -N flag do? It isn't documented. forget it, it is non-existant with rdiff, while it exists with diff. So it is my fault.

Automatic merging

2004-06-08 Thread Carucci, Jason
I'm trying to get my company to move to CVS from Source Safe. One of the concerns that people have raised is that CVS does automatic merging of changes with the repository. Apparently they had bad experiences with PVCS which did the same thing. I personally never had these problems with PVCS,

RE: Automatic merging

2004-06-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Carucci, Jason wrote: I'm trying to get my company to move to CVS from Source Safe. Have a look here: http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/windev/sourcesafe.html it may give you additional information to help you convince others. BTW, Source Safe also does automatic merging, but I think it

Re: Automatic merging

2004-06-08 Thread Tom Copeland
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:53, Frederic Brehm wrote: The only problem I have had is once when there was a project full of cowboys who did not bother to communicate with each other and wanted to fix everything themselves. The merge problems were a symptom of a dysfunctional team and no source

Deleting a Directory

2004-06-08 Thread Jake Colman
We've followed the proper procedure for removing a subdirectory tree from our source tree. When we checkout the source tree it no longer creates the directory hierarchy that we've removed. The checkout process, however, stil traverses the tree and prints out messages as it does so. Is there a

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 17:10:58 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS corrupts binary files ... Source files are any files that cannot be reproduced automatically. Nope, that's wrong too. Source files are those files written and edited by humans. Source _code_ is human (and

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 20:52:06 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS corrupts binary files ... Yeah, well, sending such hapless people away is easier than fixing the tool. The tool is not broken -- I.e. there's nothing to fix! CVS is designed _only_ for tracking changes in

Re: Branch mess, and starting a project with import

2004-06-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, June 4, 2004 at 21:41:02 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ] Subject: Re: Branch mess, and starting a project with import Greg A. Woods writes: cvs import should really never be used for anything but third-party code that's going to be managed on a CVS-style magic vendor branch.

Re: Branch mess, and starting a project with import

2004-06-08 Thread Larry Jones
Greg A. Woods writes [re ignoring the vendor branch]: It's not really 100% safe though -- at minimum the default branch must be returned to the trunk _before_ any other branches are made. Why? What practical difference does it make whether the branch is rooted off the trunk revision or the

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 13:01:48 (-0700), Adrian Constantin wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS corrupts binary files ... I don't wanna merge binary files, and I'm not likely to modify them in my module (project). I just want cvs to carry them along with the sources Then your better tool is

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source files are any files that cannot be reproduced automatically. Nope, that's wrong too. Source files are those files written and edited by humans. That's exactly what I said. Read that sentence again. Source _code_ is human (and machine)

Re: Any CVS tricks for creating patch files?

2004-06-08 Thread Larry Jones
Spiro Trikaliotis writes [re -N]: As I said, this option is missing with cvs rdiff, while it exists with cvs diff (cvs 1.11.16). Is this difference by intention, or is it accidentially? I would find it very usefull for rdiff. It's not just useful, it's essential. The option doesn't exist

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Paul Sander
Oops, I omitted the Sept. 16 patch. Here it is at the bottom. --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 20:52:06 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS corrupts binary files ... Yeah, well, sending such hapless

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Adrian Constantin
--- Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 13:01:48 (-0700), Adrian Constantin wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS corrupts binary files ... I don't wanna merge binary files, Then your better tool is called a directory (i.e. outside of CVS) -- You can't be

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 20:52:06 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS corrupts binary files ... Yeah, well, sending such hapless people away is easier than fixing the tool. The tool is not broken -- I.e. there's nothing to fix! CVS

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, Greg writes: CVS is designed _only_ for tracking changes in human written text files. Paul writes: Keep in mind also that there's a difference between binary files and mergeable files. The two concepts are in fact orthogonal; there

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-08 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg writes: CVS is designed _only_ for tracking changes in human written text files. Paul writes: Keep in mind also that there's a difference between binary files and mergeable files. The two concepts are in fact orthogonal; there are mergeable