RE: Diff Info

2005-03-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Todd Denniston wrote: SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote: [...] In the future, Please chop out any digest matterial that is not related to the new question. Better still - and as I have asked Saravanan before - do not start a new message by replying to an existing message. Many mail clients

Re: how to make branch alias for HEAD branch

2005-03-28 Thread Victor A. Prylipko
- Original Message - From: Jim.Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Victor A. Prylipko' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; info-cvs@gnu.org Sent: 28 2005 . 18:27 Subject: RE: how to make branch alias for HEAD branch Victor A. Prylipko wrote: I.m trying to make branch alias for HEAD branch using cvs

RE: verifymsg and branches

2005-03-28 Thread Christopher.Fouts
Hey cool, you mind sharing that script? :) As far as deleting the stored info, would it be safe to delete via script run in loginfo, since by then, the commit is already passed and verifymsg should not be called anymore? -chris -Original Message- From: Matt Doar [mailto:[EMAIL

Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-28 Thread Howard, Les
Title: Remote repository permissions best practices Ive hacked my way through setting up a few CVS repositories in the past, but Ive always struggled with getting the user/group ownership and file permissions correct.  I always seem to end up with a setup where the users cant access the

Re: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

2005-03-28 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Hi, Well, I've had a crack at implementing the optimisation; and attached is a patch which seems to work - but there is at least one nasty hack in it; more about that in a sec. To enable it you need to add: TagOverwriteEnable=yes to the config file in the CVSROOT; without that it should not

Re: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

2005-03-28 Thread Doug Lee
I followed this discussion only loosely and kept silent because I suspect someone will shoot me to pieces for the complaint I'm about to make, but now that we're to the stage of actual implementation, I guess I'd like to say this anyway... I have reservations about any system that makes

Re: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

2005-03-28 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Doug Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I followed this discussion only loosely and kept silent because I suspect someone will shoot me to pieces for the complaint I'm about to make, but now that we're to the stage of actual implementation, I guess I'd like to say this anyway... Hey that's OK.

RE: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

2005-03-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[top posting as a courtesy for Doug] I haven't examined the patch, so I don't know how closely the implementation matches the proposal, but if I understand the proposed changes, whitespace is still insignificant, there's just more of it added as a buffer, as an optimization to improve speed when

Re: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

2005-03-28 Thread Doug Lee
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:12:56PM -0500, Jim.Hyslop wrote: [top posting as a courtesy for Doug] Thanks :) I just hope I don't cause a mess by that comment, which I suppose was fuelled as much by lack of lunch as by anything. :-) I haven't examined the patch, so I don't know how closely the

Re: Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-28 Thread Todd Denniston
Howard, Les wrote: I've hacked my way through setting up a few CVS repositories in the past, but I've always struggled with getting the user/group ownership and file permissions correct. I always seem to end up with a setup where the users can't access the files that other users have

Re: Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-28 Thread Todd Denniston
Todd Denniston wrote: Howard, Les wrote: I've hacked my way through setting up a few CVS repositories in the past, but I've always struggled with getting the user/group ownership and file permissions correct. I always seem to end up with a setup where the users can't access the files

Has anyone ever seen this?

2005-03-28 Thread Lynch, Harold
Title: Has anyone ever seen this? This starting about 3 weeks ago (this server has been running for over two years). background: This is a pserver configuration on a dell rack mount two processor machine, currently running redhat 8. It has 12gigs of ram. Was using cvs.1.11.15 but just

Re: Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-28 Thread Todd Denniston
[top posting as a courtesy for Doug] -R Recursively change permissions of directories and their contents. Its the their contents part that is the problem, you only need and want to change the ownership and permissions on the directories. The files should be read only, and we

RE: Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Todd Denniston wrote: 1) all the users who need write access to the repository should be in the same UNIX group. Doesn't this effectively negate any benefit of using groups? For example, in our setup we want full-time staff to have general access to most of the repository, and co-op students

Re: Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-28 Thread Todd Denniston
Jim.Hyslop wrote: Todd Denniston wrote: 1) all the users who need write access to the repository should be in the same UNIX group. Doesn't this effectively negate any benefit of using groups? For example, in our setup we want full-time staff to have general access to most of the