how to list files committed to a particular branch?

2004-12-24 Thread Tom Roche
How can I list the files have been committed to a particular branch? Why I ask: My workgroup's custom (and my boss' decree :-) is to work in HEAD until a product release becomes imminent, at which point we branch to work on that release. This works pretty well, except that, if one is working in a

cvs ignore feature

2004-12-24 Thread Jeff Decker
Hello, I'm relativley new to cvs and I'm looking into the ignore features of cvs. It looks like all the files you put into .cvsignore are to prevent adding to the repository. My question is I am getting the project from a repository that already has files in it but once I get the file I want cv

CVS peculiarities blocking conversion from MKS RCS

2004-12-24 Thread J F
Hello all, I am new to CVS, but have been involved in version control systems for over a decade. My company has been using MKS RCS for nine years. It has served us well, but due to shortcomings we need to upgrade to a newer version (too much $$$), or switch to a different version control syste

Re: File in repository with wrong case can't be replaced

2004-12-24 Thread Larry Jones
Pico Geyer 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! > I accidentally added one of my java files to the CVS project with the > wrong name. I used the "myclass.java" instead of "Myclass.jav

Re: cancel the last commit

2004-12-24 Thread Larry Jones
jehan.procaccia writes: > > How can I cancel my last commit ? The best option is to use a merge to back out the changes and then commit again. See the manual for details: -Larry Jones Sometimes I think the surest sign

Re: Error "out of memory" when checking out large binary

2004-12-24 Thread Larry Jones
Tom Simons writes: > > When checking out a directory with large binary files, cvs fails with > "out of memory". How can we get around this? Don't store large binary files in a source control system. :-) You need to make more virtual memory available on the server. How you do that is, of cours

cancel the last commit

2004-12-24 Thread jehan.procaccia
Hello I just commited a major change in my projet althought I hadden't commited small changes on the production/stable_relaese one. I just want the repository to come back to the relaese it was before that last commit, so that I can commit the small/stable changes first, then I will tag that re