Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
Julian Opificius writes: I'm not quite sure what you mean by mapping users. Using the third field of the CVSROOT/passwd file to have the server run as some user other than the actual user. I want each user to have his own login to the system, and I want to control access to CVS

Re: undesirable cvs behavior?

2005-06-27 Thread Rahul
Hi Greg - There is a better way to do this. We have designed the WANdisco CVS Replicator for extreme fault tolerance. Using our solution you create active/active replicas that can be failed over with zero data-loss instantly. CVS hosting companies like CVSdude (http://www.cvsdude.org) are

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Julian Opificius
Larry Jones wrote: Julian Opificius writes: I'm not quite sure what you mean by mapping users. Using the third field of the CVSROOT/passwd file to have the server run as some user other than the actual user. Yep, that's what I am/was doing. I want each user to have his own login to the

permission to a single module

2005-06-27 Thread Nic
Hi to all, I am new to the use of CVS. How can I set to a USER a write(commit) permission to MODULE-A and readonly permission to MODULE-B and forbid read and write permissions to othe modules ? I read a lot of documentation and FAQ, but so far I don't have solved the above permission problems.

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry Jones wrote: Julian Opificius writes: I'm not quite sure what you mean by mapping users. Using the third field of the CVSROOT/passwd file to have the server run as some user other than the

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Todd Denniston
Julian Opificius wrote: SNIP I have one more issue that affects my choice that I should have mentioned earlier. We are working in an FAA-regulated environment, and my CVS respository must be secure, in that nobody can impair the lifecycle data, and all accesses must be documented and

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
Julian Opificius writes: I have one more issue that affects my choice that I should have mentioned earlier. We are working in an FAA-regulated environment, and my CVS respository must be secure, in that nobody can impair the lifecycle data, and all accesses must be documented and

Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-26 Thread Julian Opificius
I just instigated admin controls by opening up and configuring the UserAdminOptions setting. My account is a member of Linux cvsadmin group, yet like non-privileged users I cannot execute admin commands. my error message is:- cvs [admin aborted]: usage is restricted to members of the group

local branches of a remote trunk...

2005-06-25 Thread dietrich bollmann
Hi, I am confronted with the following situation: I am using an open source program ( blender3d.org ) which I am updating from the cvs sources on a regular basis. I am also experimenting with the sources, writing some extra functionality myself. Some of this functionality I would like to

Re: info-cvs] Re: a newbie facing tagging problem

2005-06-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! Why doesn't this list run something like the demime package to scrub HTML/MIME postings to this list, so people don't have to be bothered with worring

HELP! Deleted CVS directory still causing problems

2005-06-25 Thread Dave Bartmess
We're operating on Windows 2000, and we had an instance of a directory with a similar name created with only one character different in case only. (i.e., Test dir created when TEst dir already existed and was removed) We couldn't remove the directory because Windows wouldn't recognize the

RE: HELP! Deleted CVS directory still causing problems

2005-06-25 Thread Rod Macpherson
It is not possible to remove a directory using CVS. Instead remove the contents and use the prune option when checking out or updating. To keep a directory with the prune option use a dummy file such as .empty. It is not possible to rename a directory but you can remove the old directory and

Re: CVS Server Change

2005-06-24 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
What would be an appropriate way to merge the two CVS servers? I am just trying to simply copy the files (,v files) in one CVS server to the other CVS server. Would that cause any harm for the existing CVS files in the target CVS server? SH- On 6/24/05, Spiro Trikaliotis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

a newbie facing tagging problem

2005-06-24 Thread akumar
Title: a newbie facing tagging problem Hi, I am newbie in using cvs. I am using a cvs configured by somebody else. I am facing a problem with the cvs setup as follows: I have remote repository When we tag main directory of a project it is shown that For xyz/abcsys/src/base/vlan/Makefile HEAD

Re: CVS Server Change

2005-06-24 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello again, * On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:51:08PM +0900 Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: What would be an appropriate way to merge the two CVS servers? I am just trying to simply copy the files (,v files) in one CVS server to the other CVS server. Would that cause any harm for the existing CVS files in

Re: a newbie facing tagging problem

2005-06-24 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! When we tag main directory of a

Re: a newbie facing tagging problem

2005-06-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: $Name$ causes files to be locally modified

2005-06-24 Thread Jorgensen, Steven
Thanks for the suggestion, I have implemented commitinfo script to prevent someone from using $Name$, but I'm curious as to why $Name$ works differently from the other keyword expansions. Why does this keyword cause the file to be locally modified on expansion, when all the other

demime the list? (was Re: a newbie facing tagging problem)

2005-06-24 Thread Todd Denniston
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Larry Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted

Re: Regarding check-in of unicode characters.

2005-06-24 Thread Rahul
Arthur Barrett wrote: Maninder, CVS does not support Unicode files, instead they must be committed as binary, in which case you cannot do diff/merge etc. CVSNT on Mac/Linux/Unix/Windows (free, open source, GPL, just like CVS) does support unicode files (-ku). Please supply more

Re: Regarding check-in of unicode characters.

2005-06-24 Thread Rahul
Hi Maninder - You can use UTF-8 encoded files. UTF-8 is a method of representing Unicode text with a stream of 8-bit bytes. The resulting stream is both ASCII-compatible and reverse-ASCII-compatible. A single character can occupy from 1 to 4 bytes. Most IDE and editors like emacs these days,

cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied

2005-06-24 Thread Boris Landa
Hello Colleagues, I am using CVS version 1.11.17. My server is in Oregon. My client is in California. It runs on a PC under Windows XP using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.13(0.122/4/2) 2005-03-01 11:01. CVS works fine for me. However, every time I do a check in I get an additional error message: cvs

undesirable cvs behavior?

2005-06-24 Thread Gregory N. Olszewski
Hello. I'm writing regarding the behavior of cvs on the backuprecover-15 test case. The comments call it a 'failure case', which seems to mean 'the behavior is broken, but since we know what the behavior is, we'll make sure we don't change it accidently'. # Note that backuprecover-15 is probably

tagging problem

2005-06-23 Thread akumar
Title: tagging problem Hi, One ranch was added to the cvs tree igatesys/src/base/ as follows: igatesys/src/base/vlan/vlan. the igatesys/src/base/vlan/ contains makefile. When I run cvs status -v Makefile it is noted that: Sticky Tag: (none) Sticky Date: (none) Sticky Options: (none)

RE: tagging problem

2005-06-23 Thread akumar
Title: RE: tagging problem I am using a remote repostary. Thanks, With regards, Arvind -Original Message- From: Arvind Kumar Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:16 PM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Cc: Arvind Kumar Subject: tagging problem Hi, One ranch was added to the cvs tree

Re: $Name$ causes files to be locally modified

2005-06-23 Thread Todd Denniston
Jorgensen, Steven wrote: I am having a problem with the $Name$ keyword expansion. We use a cvs tag to indicate when a file has moved beyond local testing stage, and is ready for general use by all developers (a release tag if you will) so that we can automate a update and build

Re: CVS Lock Files

2005-06-23 Thread Arno Schuring
In the mean time, I could modify my shell script to do a combo on 'find' : find /cvs/ -name *lock* -ctime? I'll look for any locks older than a certain number of days. However, the problem is that our Builds are automated and at 2 a.m. I'm not here watching them to call or stop the

CVS Server Change

2005-06-23 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
I am a beginner in using CVS, and have a question on to change the CVS server. I have two machines which are S, L. S is the CVS server, and L is a local machine. I have been managing a project in machine L using a local CVS setup (e.g., CVSROOT=~/cvsroot), and now would like to move the local CVS

Re: cvs update $Name: $ expansion

2005-06-23 Thread Pierre Asselin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get $Name: $ to expand on an update in my script below. It works when checking out. But, do I really have to do a checkout? I think it works on update, *if* the working copy is missing and the update has to get a new copy from scratch. (And, of course, if the

Re: CVS Server Change

2005-06-23 Thread Pierre Asselin
Soo-Hyun Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a beginner in using CVS, and have a question on to change the CVS server. [ ... ] Would this work if I simply copy the CVS's ,v files with the directory to the machine S's cvsroot directory? Yes. This also makes your existing sandboxes

Re: CVS Server Change

2005-06-23 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:13:28AM + Pierre Asselin wrote: Soo-Hyun Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a beginner in using CVS, and have a question on to change the CVS server. [ ... ] Would this work if I simply copy the CVS's ,v files with the directory to the machine

How to control the current version of CVSROOT/modules ?

2005-06-22 Thread mcarneir
Hi. Is it possible to roll back the version of the currently used CVSROOT/modules file? Say that a product rev. A is built using Ampersand modules. Say that the product is updated to rev. B, and that the Ampersand modules is changed causing a change in the CVSROOT/modules file. If I would

Re: How to control the current version of CVSROOT/modules ?

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Is it possible to roll back the version of the currently used CVSROOT/modules file? Say that a product rev. A is built using Ampersand modules. Say that the product is updated to rev. B, and that the Ampersand modules is changed causing a change in the

How to control the current version of CVSROOT/modules ?

2005-06-22 Thread Michael da Costa Carneiro
Hi. Is it possible to roll back the version of the currently used CVSROOT/modules file? Say that sw release rev. A is built using Ampersand modules. Say that the product is updated to rev. B, and that the Ampersand modules is changed causing a change in the CVSROOT/modules file. If I would want

Cron process to schedule CVS check in as another user ???

2005-06-22 Thread jason
Good Day. Off the wall question. We would like to version PLSQL code, but we don't want the repository to be updated until code has successfully been compiled and deployed to the DB. We are likely doing this in an atiquated an backwards approach - mainly due to artificial restrictions and

CVS Lock Files

2005-06-22 Thread S I
Hi I've setup a cronjob on our unix server to run nightly to clean up CVS lock files before my build and before tagging CVS. A user using Tortoise accidentally caused certain folders in the repository to lock up during my build (about 3x's in 1 week) and tagging took about 600 minutes

RE: CVS Lock Files

2005-06-22 Thread Rod Macpherson
Thing is, if this is that frequent there ottabee many reports of stray locks. I can say we are not seeing that at all but will admit it used to show up with a product called SmartCVS - not pointing the finger at that product, just conveying our experience. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: CVS Lock Files

2005-06-22 Thread Rod Macpherson
Should be fine. When we had that issue coming up we whacked the locks one at a time but automating should be safe. I would be a little troubled that it's happening constantly. If asked to guess I'd pick Tortoise over Eclipse as the culprit. We have dozens of Eclipse users accessing our repository

RE: CVS Lock Files

2005-06-22 Thread S I
Thank you. But do you see anything wrong with me manually removing such files? They won't corrupt CVS or anything like that, would they? p.s. the user is using tortoise with eclipse and I think that's what caused it or rather doing a search for tags within tortoise. Original Message

Re: CVS Lock Files

2005-06-22 Thread Larry Jones
S I writes: Thank you. But do you see anything wrong with me manually removing such files? They won't corrupt CVS or anything like that, would they? Yes, it very well might. You're not making any attempt to differentiate between legitimate lock files (caused by someone currently running

$Name$ causes files to be locally modified

2005-06-22 Thread Jorgensen, Steven
Title: $Name$ causes files to be locally modified I am having a problem with the $Name$ keyword expansion. We use a cvs tag to indicate when a file has moved beyond local testing stage, and is ready for general use by all developers (a release tag if you will) so that we can automate a

Re: CVS Lock Files

2005-06-22 Thread S I
Thanks. I think(?) we've pinpointed the culprit (search for tags in Tortoise) and have asked the user not to execute and redo what she did to cause the problem. So since last week the problem has stopped. So I deduced that was the culprit. In the mean time, I could modify my shell script

Re: Cron process to schedule CVS check in as another user ???

2005-06-22 Thread Pierre Asselin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like to version PLSQL code, but we don't want the repository to be updated until code has successfully been compiled and deployed to the DB. Would branching do ? Develop and test on a branch and merge to the trunk when the tests are declared passed. [ snip

Re: How to control the current version of CVSROOT/modules ?

2005-06-22 Thread Pierre Asselin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to roll back the version of the currently used CVSROOT/modules file? [ correct description of amperstand modules conundrom ] As Jim said, you're stuck. You can always do this, cvs checkout CVSROOT cd CVSROOT cvs update -j HEAD -j oldrev

cvs update $Name: $ expansion

2005-06-22 Thread kai . hendry
I can't get $Name: $ to expand on an update in my script below. It works when checking out. But, do I really have to do a checkout? Because a clean checkout every night would be expensive over a crappy connection. debian$ cat test.sh DATE=`date +%s` TAG=test_$DATE MODULE='t' echo Tagging

Re: cvs update $Name: $ expansion

2005-06-22 Thread Stuart Cooper
I can't get $Name: $ to expand on an update in my script below. It works when checking out. But, do I really have to do a checkout? Because a clean checkout every night would be expensive over a crappy connection. debian$ cat test.sh DATE=`date +%s` TAG=test_$DATE MODULE='t' echo

Re: cvs update $Name: $ expansion

2005-06-22 Thread kai . hendry
I want some sort of build identifier attached to the source I am building every night. $Name:$ seems logical and it does seem like the way other people do it, albeit with a checkout. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

cvs import error and permission error

2005-06-22 Thread Bala Vignesh
Hello friends ! i have created my cvsroot under cvs account. and i added required user under that(cvs) group. but if i try to import files from another account it shows the error cvs import :ERROR:can not write file ... no such file or directory. and also i gave g+rw permission to cvs dir .

Re: cvs update $Name: $ expansion

2005-06-22 Thread Stuart Cooper
I want some sort of build identifier attached to the source I am building every night. Then tag your sources every night in eg astronomical time rev20050623 for July 23rd. $Name:$ seems logical and it does seem like the way other people do it, albeit with a checkout. Yes, it only gets

newbie question

2005-06-21 Thread Jay
Hi, I used wincvs to update the opencv source on my winndows machine. Wincvs exited with code 0 , success.While the cvs was checking for now new updates...it displayed cvs checkout: Updating opencv/cv/src But when i checked the files in the folder they are the same. What wrong am i

RE: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-21 Thread Dennis von Ferenczy
Dennis von Ferenczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] The problem is the following: the cvs server is at the same time the web server where the application runs. So I have to checkout to the web server. But: My IDE runs locally on my machine and it needs the complete source code

Help Required in CVS

2005-06-21 Thread Hemant Thakre
Hello Group, After a long time I'm posting on group. Actually I'm stuckup at some point in CVS. 1) I have migrated my cvs server to new box which is fedora core 3. I've copied all the modules as it is to new box. Now, I've setup several access control on modules. The problem is, I

Importing new vendor release from RCS

2005-06-21 Thread Berthold Höllmann
Hello, I'm trying to import a new vendor release into a CVS repository. I would like to keep the RCS history provided with the project. Is there an easy way to achieve this? Regards Berthold -- __ Address: G / \ L Germanischer Lloyd

Re: Help Required in CVS

2005-06-21 Thread Jim Hyslop
Hemant Thakre wrote: 2) Another problem which I'm facing after upgradation is *CVS Time stamping problem. *When I checkin or commit any file to cvs server. It shows diff. time stamp for checked in file which is around six hours less than current time. We use ntp for time synchronisation

Re: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-21 Thread Jim Hyslop
Dennis von Ferenczy wrote: Yes. Get a CVS client for your local machine and do your cvs commits from there behind the IDE's back. On the CVS server == web server, use the loginfo hook to keep a reference sandbox up to date, from which the web site operates.

Re: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-21 Thread Todd Denniston
Dennis von Ferenczy wrote: Dennis von Ferenczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Yes. Get a CVS client for your local machine and do your cvs commits from there behind the IDE's back. On the CVS server == web server, use the loginfo hook to keep a reference sandbox up to date, from

Re: Help Required in CVS

2005-06-21 Thread Todd Denniston
Please don't use HTML in email to mail lists. 1) I have migrated my cvs server to new box which is fedora core 3. I've copied all the modules as it is to new box. Now, I've setup several access control on modules. The problem is, I want to setup setgid bit on one module including all

RE: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Rancier, Jeff
Yep. I downloaded, compiled, and installed for Solaris 8 on Sparc. The manpage for initgroups indicates the following: --- RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is

Re: Using log to list files of a tag

2005-06-21 Thread Larry Jones
Aaron Jackson writes: I'm trying to use rlog to get the history of a group of files included in one tag. I want to be able to see all of the other tags that this file is assigned to as well. Using the output below as an example, lets say I'm looking for a_project_2 in the log. The output

Re: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Todd Denniston
Rancier, Jeff wrote: Yep. I downloaded, compiled, and installed for Solaris 8 on Sparc. The manpage for initgroups indicates the following: SNIP So, I SU'd and logged into the repository again and attempted to do a check out again, with the same error. Has anyone experience this on

RE: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Rancier, Jeff
Thanks, I was using my username. The results from the ypcat: ypcat: the domainname hasn't been set on this machine. Do I need to resolve this, or is just a method for troubleshooting? | -Original Message- | From: Todd Denniston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, June 21,

HEAD versus Trunk

2005-06-21 Thread Rod Macpherson
Why doesn't CVS treat HEAD like a branch tag where the branch is the main branch, that is to say the trunk. I cannot commit files checked out as HEAD. Treats it like a garden variety version label versus trunk. ___ Info-cvs mailing list

Re: HEAD versus Trunk

2005-06-21 Thread Larry Jones
Rod Macpherson writes: Why doesn't CVS treat HEAD like a branch tag where the branch is the main branch, that is to say the trunk. Why aren't rocks soft like pillows? I cannot commit files checked out as HEAD. Treats it like a garden variety version label versus trunk. That's because it

Re: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Todd Denniston
Rancier, Jeff wrote: Thanks, I was using my username. The results from the ypcat: and what is that user name? so we can see if it matches the other output, is it your unix or MS username? ypcat: the domainname hasn't been set on this machine. I was making the assumption you were

RE: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Rancier, Jeff
OK, my username is jrancier, and my gid is 10. They are both jrancier on Solaris and Windows. I'm using pserver, and I have no password set in my /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT/passwd. So, can I assume that the Solaris cvs executable is failing, because I am not in the SU group locally, so the

RE: Jindent

2005-06-21 Thread Zanabria, Moises
Hi Tood, Make sense to me, I think is better to run a style checker as a part of the commitinfo which prevents a checkin if a particular source file does have the xml style. Thanks for the tip. Moises. -Original Message- From: Todd Denniston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Larry Jones
Todd Denniston writes: If you are using pserver you should not need to su, [x]inetd runs as root. But is it set up to run pserver as root? If not, you can only run as the user you're running pserver as -- any attempt to run as a different user will result in similar problems (although one

Re: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Larry Jones
Rancier, Jeff writes: This aside, it was the cvsd on the Windows box (the repository) which was reporting the initgroups error then? I mean, why would the local cvs client care, right? I'm confused -- I thought the repository was on the Solaris box?!? Perhaps you need to start over -- tell

RE: HEAD versus Trunk

2005-06-21 Thread Rod Macpherson
To paraphrase your answer: because. The tip of the trunk is what you get when you don't specify *any* revision or date Yeah, I know. It's also what you get when you specify HEAD: the tip. Use update -A to... Yeah, I know, I've been removing sticky tags with update -A since I was knee

Re: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Larry Jones
Todd Denniston writes: which would imply either the user name given was invalid (for where initgroups looked) or the additional group was. Does initgroups get pointed at CVSROOT/passwd if it exists? No, it just gets the username and associated gid from the system passwd file. If the

Re: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Todd Denniston
Larry Jones wrote: Todd Denniston writes: If you are using pserver you should not need to su, [x]inetd runs as root. But is it set up to run pserver as root? If not, you can only run as the user you're running pserver as -- any attempt to run as a different user will result in similar

RE: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-21 Thread Dennis von Ferenczy
It sounds like you use your production environment for testing. Good configuration management practises dictate that you should never do that. Configure your local machine to behave the same way as the production machine. Test on your local machine. If you do not do this, then

RE: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Rancier, Jeff
I guess your right. I'll re-read the pserver section. Both systems are internal, security risk in nil. I did delete the passwd file, and then I couldn't login to the repository. cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL

RE: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Rancier, Jeff
One key thing I think I ommitted, is that xinetd/cvs on Windows are Cygwin's. | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:28 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: Rancier, Jeff; info-cvs@gnu.org | Subject: Re: Check out fails | |

Re: HEAD versus Trunk

2005-06-21 Thread Larry Jones
Rod Macpherson writes [using very long lines]: To paraphrase your answer: because. None of us where there when the decision was made, so you can't expect a definitive answer. :-) But I suspect that HEAD was created because a floating revision tag that references the tip of the trunk is

RE: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Rancier, Jeff
OK. Sorry for the confusion. The repository is on a Windows 2000 Pro box using cygwin's xinetd and cvs (server). (1) Here's the cygwin info: Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Jun 21 16:44:49 2005 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build

Re: Check out fails

2005-06-21 Thread Larry Jones
Rancier, Jeff writes: One key thing I think I ommitted, is that xinetd/cvs on Windows are Cygwin's. The bigger thing you omitted is that you're using Windows *at all*. Your original question only mentioned Solaris! Again, you need to take a step back and tell us about your environment --

Exporting a subdirectory only...

2005-06-21 Thread Ken Keefe
I have a cvs module that has two subdirectories, images and web. I'd like to export only the contents of the web folder into ./webserver/. Is there a way I can do that with a simple CVS command? Thanks Ken Keefe ___ Info-cvs mailing list

RE: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-21 Thread Dennis von Ferenczy
If I understand your workflow it goes something like this: 1) cvs checkout on server machine. 2) sftp checkout to dev machine. 3) make mods and test on dev machine. 4) sftp checkout back to server machine. 5) cvs commit changes on server machine. 6) sftp changes from dev machine to the

Re: Exporting a subdirectory only...

2005-06-21 Thread Larry Jones
Ken Keefe writes: I have a cvs module that has two subdirectories, images and web. I'd like to export only the contents of the web folder into ./webserver/. Is there a way I can do that with a simple CVS command? cvs export -r whatever -d webserver mymod/web -Larry Jones You should

Re: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-21 Thread Pierre Asselin
Dennis von Ferenczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your advice. But what will be the advantage? If I get you right, then I would have to do a commit every time I want to test the changes in my scripts, Yes. even if I have changed only a single line of code Yes. - and even if the

Re: Importing new vendor release from RCS

2005-06-21 Thread Pierre Asselin
Berthold H?llmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to import a new vendor release into a CVS repository. I would like to keep the RCS history provided with the project. Is there an easy way to achieve this? Do you mean they gave you a directory tree populated with RCS ,v files ? If so,

Template file for commits

2005-06-21 Thread Norm Crisp
I apologize in advance as this is really a question for WinCVS users but I can't seem to find the right forum for WinCVS. I have created a template to use on cvs commits. The template is in the CVSROOT directory and the rcsinfo has been updated to point to the template file. Command line cvs

RE: CVS vs Visual SourceSafe

2005-06-20 Thread Bittner,Peter
Hi! I think there is not much decide about SourceSafe yes or no. MS SourceSafe is old, not maintained by Microsoft any more (they are about to develop a replacement as far as I have heard), the use locking instead of concurrency, etc. etc. No, really, you'd better decide between: - CVS

RE: CVS vs Visual SourceSafe

2005-06-20 Thread Bittner,Peter
Edwin, While there is much to say for the concurrent versioning philosophy, there are also many situations where it is not the optimal solution. (As represented by the fact that every so often this list receives question about how to exclusively lock a file using CVS). Of course, you are

RE: CVS vs Visual SourceSafe

2005-06-20 Thread Rod Macpherson
Probably 99% of the how do I lock questions are CVS noobs uncomfortable with the general answer: you don't. Bottom line: locking introduces development bottlenecks with almost no benefit. In fact it's a false sense of coordination where changes are blown away on a regular basis: bugs magically

pcl-cvs/cvs error, ^M: no such repository

2005-06-20 Thread Rancier, Jeff
All, I just created from scratch, a new repository. So keep in mind I can zap it. All my pcl-cvs commands fail, due to what looks like a trailing '^M' somewhere. I started clean, and imported a directory, then immediately did a checkout. Output below: As you can see, the get the problem right

RE: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-20 Thread Dennis von Ferenczy
Let's see if I got this straight: 1) You start with the CVS/ directories present. 2) You run an SFTP client. 3) The CVS/directories are gone. Based on these facts, I would say that the SFTP client removed the directories. although this sounds rather unlikely to me, I

Re: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-20 Thread Todd Denniston
Dennis von Ferenczy wrote: Let's see if I got this straight: 1) You start with the CVS/ directories present. 2) You run an SFTP client. 3) The CVS/directories are gone. Based on these facts, I would say that the SFTP client removed the directories. although this

Re: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-20 Thread Arno Schuring
The problem is the following: the cvs server is at the same time the web server where the application runs. So I have to checkout to the web server. But: My IDE runs locally on my machine and it needs the complete source code to enable it to use code completion etc. Between my local machine and

Check out fails

2005-06-20 Thread Rancier, Jeff
When attempting to checkout a module using pserver, I get: initgroups failed: Invalid argument I googled this but didn't come up with anything helpful. Thanks, Jeff ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

Re: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-20 Thread Pierre Asselin
Dennis von Ferenczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] The problem is the following: the cvs server is at the same time the web server where the application runs. So I have to checkout to the web server. But: My IDE runs locally on my machine and it needs the complete source code to enable it

CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-19 Thread Dennis von Ferenczy
I am running a cvs server Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.9 (client/server) on debian linux. When I do a checkout everything is fine and a CVS directory is present in every directory of the checked out module. However as soon as I upload a changed version of of my code using my SFTP-Client

Re: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

2005-06-19 Thread Pierre Asselin
Dennis von Ferenczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I do a checkout everything is fine and a CVS directory is present in every directory of the checked out module. However as soon as I upload a changed version of of my code using my SFTP-Client the CVS-Directory disappears from the directory to

CVS vs Visual SourceSafe

2005-06-19 Thread pioioi
Help me!~~ Help me!~ I need you guys advice. I have to make a decision between CVS and Visual SourceSafe.. What are advantages and disadvantages over each other program?? And which one is better for stability? (It doesn't matter free or not.) ___

Re: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 31, Issue 27

2005-06-18 Thread Derrick Bass
On Jun 17, 2005, at 7:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - FOR each file DO: - cvs log file - grep the branch name out of the output of the above (for example, you get something like branch: 1.164.0.14 - Get the number from above and remove the 0 and the number

Re: Re: query

2005-06-18 Thread Russ Sherk
On 18 Jun 2005 03:07:42 -, Hridyesh Pant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am able to get information about the files which are most frequently changing (descending order) between two dates. but now I need how much lines are added or removed from these files. Hi Russ could you please

Re: CVS Lock Errors

2005-06-17 Thread S I
I'm ok now. Oddly I didn't find any cvs processes running on the unix server. So I cut paste the error msgs into google and found out cvs.locks were created by the user, inadvertently, and we had to delete them manually. Thank you very much for the info and your time. :) Original

RE: CVS Lock Errors

2005-06-17 Thread S I
Thank you all for your help. I found out(by googling) this was the case and cvs had left out debris of #cvs.rfl.blah.blah files in certain directories on the server as well as cvs.lock files on the user's pc. Once we made sure she had checked in all his work, we manually deleted the .lock

rogue filename

2005-06-17 Thread Kelsang Norpel
hi all when I set up my repository I had a stray file called '--no-recursion' that was a byproduct of a mistyped command. I have managed to remove this from my local list, but when I do a cvs commit it fails. How can I get rid of this file, since now I cannot do any more commits until this error

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