Wanted: Help Specifying CVSROOT

I'm going nuts trying to understand the syntax for specifying CVSROOT for a windows server! I have created a repository and used CVSNT service control panel to add the repository C:\CONVEX. (The documentation did not mention this, but it seemed like a good idea). I've tried using cygwin BASH

Re: when cvs repository

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabian Braennstroem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: right now I am using cvs just for my programming part and I am curious for what else I could need it on my linux. Do you have any suggestions? I read that some even put there whole '/etc'-directory

How safely move files from one branch to the other?

Hi, I've a directory with a few files. There exist 2 branches for this directory, say A and B. I checked out the branch A and committed the changes. Only then I noticed that I should have modified branch B instead. How do I safely move the files from branch A to branch B? Marko

Can't we all just get along?

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Smoke, FUD (was Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...) Whew, the smoke's getting thick in here! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: when cvs repository

Use it for anything where you want a history of changes and/or files where multiple people are editing them. I use it for my website as well as app development. I also put my shell scripts in there too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

branch removal question

Title: branch removal question We are using cvs in somewhat of a non-standard way. We have a production cut of our compiled source that we deploy via cvs using a production branch. The application does not mind the fact the CVS control files co-exist within the source and the application

Re: when cvs repository

Mark D. Baushke wrote: Fabian Braennstroem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: right now I am using cvs just for my programming part and I am curious for what else I could need it on my linux. Do you have any suggestions? I read that some even put there whole '/etc'-directory under cvs. Can

Re: How safely move files from one branch to the other?

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 02:48:42PM +0200, marko wrote: I've a directory with a few files. There exist 2 branches for this directory, say A and B. I checked out the branch A and committed the changes. Only then I noticed that I should have modified branch B instead. How do I safely move

Why should you want to remove sticky tags?

When I'm reading articles/guides about CVS I notice that removing sticky tags is often talked about. I don't understand why you want to remove a sticky tag. If (for example) you have files in a repository and they're ready/checked/validated for release 1, then you tag them all with rel-1-0. Why,

RE: Why should you want to remove sticky tags?

Because you won't be able to change the file until the sticky tag is removed. A sticky tag means you have the file checked out on a particular tag. When you want to make changes they have to be on the HEAD or a branch. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why should you want to remove sticky tags?

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Anand Graves wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:48:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Anand Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why should you want to remove sticky tags? When I'm reading articles/guides about CVS I notice that removing sticky tags is often

Re: Why should you want to remove sticky tags?

I think there are two aspects to the removing sticky tags issue: - Removing tags - Removing the stickiness of tags Removing tags is desirable to clean up the output of cvs log if a lot of temporary tags are created. An example of this is when built sources are labelled after every build, and