How to get changelog between two tags

2005-05-17 Thread alederer
Hello, I know there are some discussions in the past about using tags with cvs log, but I found no answer to my current problem. I need to get the changes which are made on some files since a specific tag. My Problem is to get also changes from files, which don't have the specified tag, because

Help needed

2005-05-17 Thread Satishkumar
Can any one help in fixing this error. please cvs commit -m "MICS Id:104226 \nDescription:adding new files " ehelp.xml (in directory E:\en-US) cvs [server aborted]: received abort signal cvs: hash.c:312: findnode: A ssertion `key != ((void *)0)' failed. *CVS exited normally with code

cvs init on pre-existing old repository ok?

2005-05-17 Thread Bulgrien, Kevin
The original question was: A user did a cvs init on an existing repository. Is this generally safe, or might it be advisable to go back and check for differences against a backup? CVS version is 1.11.17 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-05/msg00050.html presumably contains an

RE: cvs init on pre-existing old repository ok?

2005-05-17 Thread Bulgrien, Kevin
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-12/msg00074.html Raises confidence that nothing bad happens, and, since CVS has been updated since the repository was created, implies that it should have been done anyway. From: Larry Jones Subject: Re: Some questions on CVS upgrade Date:

Re: CVS Annotate or FORCING users to comment their checkins

2005-05-17 Thread Mark E. Hamilton
S I wrote: Hi Is there any way to force the users to comment or annotate their commits or checkins? I know by default the -m comment goes here the system asks them to provide a brief comment, however, this can easily be bypassed. Can a template be set up or is there anyway to do this through

cvs commit error : Absolute filenames not allowed

2005-05-16 Thread name
Hello, I'm using vcp to port a VSS database to CVS and every time it starts trying to commit to the local cvs repository, I get this message. Any remedies ? ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Schily ueber Deutschland

2005-05-15 Thread lawrence . jones
Lese selbst: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59427 ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: Question on branches

2005-05-15 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please do not use HTML e-mail. Zeus Crisp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, Hoping someone can help as I am a new users to CVS. I would like to know if there is a way to lock a specific branch to block commits within a CVS environment.

Question on branches

2005-05-14 Thread Zeus Crisp
Hello all, Hoping someone can help as I am a new users to CVS. I would like to know if there is a way to lock a specific branch to block commits within a CVS environment. We have an environment where we have several branches all created off main. I would like to have the ability to manage the

CVS update -j branch-tag failes to merge

2005-05-13 Thread Asbjørn Sæbø
I have a CVS module (named ldas) where I would like to merge the contents of a branch into the trunk. According to the documentation, is seems that I should be able to du this using cvs update -j branch-tag. However, this does not work. No merging takes place, the files on the trunk do not

Re: CVS update -j branch-tag failes to merge

2005-05-13 Thread Asbjørn Sæbø
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: I have a CVS module (named ldas) where I would like to merge the contents of a branch into the trunk. According to the documentation, is seems that I should be able to du this using cvs update -j branch-tag. However, this does not

Re: watch on dir

2005-05-13 Thread Pedro Hernandez
--- Jim Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Pedro Hernandez wrote: Hello folks! cvs 1.11.20 on Whitebox Linux 3 I'm trying to make a directory watched by default, reading in Cederqvist Command: cvs watch on [-lR] [files]... ... Is this a bug in cvs, the doc or in my head?

Re: Terminated with fatal signal 11

2005-05-13 Thread Patrice Durosay
Dear Mark, Thank you for your precious informations. I Download the gdb package and used it as you tell me. bt showed 3 functions including re_search After downloading the cvs sources, I could locate them in the lib directory. So the problem was internal to cvs. I reinstalled it from sources

Questions on pserver authentication

2005-05-13 Thread Todd Foster
I am trying to determine how pserver authentication works. I understand when you do a cvs login that it creates ~/.cvspass file. Therefore, I'm guessing that whenever you are running cvs commands cvs blindly combines the USER from whichever method wins (either using the pserver info found in

Re: CVS update -j branch-tag failes to merge

2005-05-13 Thread Jim Hyslop
Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: I have a CVS module (named ldas) where I would like to merge the contents of a branch into the trunk. According to the documentation, is seems that I should be able to du this using cvs update -j branch-tag.

Re: Questions on pserver authentication

2005-05-13 Thread Jim Hyslop
Todd Foster wrote: I am trying to determine how pserver authentication works. I understand when you do a cvs login that it creates ~/.cvspass file. Therefore, I'm guessing that whenever you are running cvs commands cvs blindly combines the USER from whichever method wins (either using the

Re: Restoring deleted revisions (was: Branch Numbers)

2005-05-13 Thread Jim Hyslop
Hridyesh Pant wrote: Hi Jim, I need ur help,some how i deleted 1.1 revision of some files.can i restore this revision. The only way to actually delete a revision of a file is using the 'cvs admin -o' command. There is no way to undo that action, except by restoring the repository file from your

Re: Questions on pserver authentication

2005-05-13 Thread Larry Jones
Todd Foster writes: I am trying to determine how pserver authentication works. I understand when you do a cvs login that it creates ~/.cvspass file. Therefore, I'm guessing that whenever you are running cvs commands cvs blindly combines the USER from whichever method wins (either using

Re: Questions on pserver authentication

2005-05-13 Thread Todd Foster
Thanks Larry, that sounds like what we need to do for our environment. I just want to make sure I understand what the CVSROOT would look like without the user name. Old: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proj/cvsroot New: :pserver:/proj/cvsroot OR :pserver::/peroj/cvsroot Do you need to have extra

Using CVS as an enterprise backup facility

2005-05-12 Thread Merlin Beedell
CVS sounds like a possible solution to the following scenario: We are currently looking at backing up our main [file] servers to a remote site's hard disk. The requirements are: All files to be copied to the remote site just once (i.e. so that 200Gb does not get transferred every night/week

Commitinfo - finding files on the server

2005-05-12 Thread Jason . Gibbons
According to information I've read on the web, when a commit is made on a local machine to a remote server, exact copies (i.e. non-RCS format) of the files being committed are created temporarily on the server so that they are available for commitinfo scripts to act on them. I need to write a

Retrospectively creating a branch - howto?

2005-05-12 Thread Simon Brooke
[apologies if this goes out twice - I tried it on my local server but that appeared to fail to propagate, probably because my upstream server doesn't carry the gnu hierarchy] About a month ago I made a decision to make a major change to one of my library APIs. The change was one I'd been planning

Re: Using CVS as an enterprise backup facility

2005-05-12 Thread Todd Denniston
Merlin Beedell wrote: CVS sounds like a possible solution to the following scenario: We are currently looking at backing up our main [file] servers to a remote site's hard disk. The requirements are: All files to be copied to the remote site just once (i.e. so that 200Gb does not get

CVS migration question

2005-05-12 Thread Raghunath, Santhosh
I would like to know the procedure/steps to follow to do a migration of a project under the CVS repository on a Windows XP box to a CVS repository under Linux. The CVS versions are same on both the boxes. I would like to retain all the version history and log information during the

CVS and Images

2005-05-12 Thread Mychael Scribner
I have a simply little question. I do a lot of web based project that often have images. Is their and do's or don'ts that I be watching for with images. Should I not include them when I import a project? ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

Re: Commitinfo - finding files on the server

2005-05-12 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to information I've read on the web, when a commit is made on a local machine to a remote server, exact copies (i.e. non-RCS format) of the files being committed are created temporarily on the server so that they are available for commitinfo scripts to act

Re: Retrospectively creating a branch - howto?

2005-05-12 Thread Larry Jones
Simon Brooke writes: -[simon]- cvs co -D2005-04-10 jacquard -[simon]- cd jacquard -[simon]- cvs tag -b jacquard-1-10-stable-root This probably should have been an ordinary tag (without -b). If you really used -b, you should be able to convert it to a normal revision tag with: cvs

Re: Using CVS as an enterprise backup facility

2005-05-12 Thread Andy Jones
If you can live with only one version, then it seems to me that rsync fits the bill perfectly. On 5/12/05, Todd Denniston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merlin Beedell wrote: CVS sounds like a possible solution to the following scenario: We are currently looking at backing up our main [file] servers to

Terminated with fatal signal 11

2005-05-12 Thread Patrice Durosay
Hello, I installed cvs prerequisite packages on a solaris 8 server : diffutils-2.8.1-sol8-sparc-local.gz rcs-5.7-sol8-sparc-local.gz cvs-1.11.19-sol8-sparc-local.gz Created the empty directory tree of my application Initialized cvs [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ cvs -d /dat/cvsroot init $ ll drwxrwxr-x 3

Re: Terminated with fatal signal 11

2005-05-12 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrice Durosay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed cvs prerequisite packages on a solaris 8 server : diffutils-2.8.1-sol8-sparc-local.gz rcs-5.7-sol8-sparc-local.gz cvs-1.11.19-sol8-sparc-local.gz All you should have needed as

Re: CVS migration question

2005-05-12 Thread dzielke
You must be Dusty on CM Crossroads then? ;-) I've been thinking about this since reading it on CM Crossroads this morning. I don't think it would be too terribly complicated. On the server side, I think it's just a matter of packing up the entire repository and ftp'ing it to the new server (or

Re: CVS migration question

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking about this since reading it on CM Crossroads this morning. I don't think it would be too terribly complicated. On the server side, I think it's just a matter of packing up the entire repository and ftp'ing it to the new server (or just copying it if

Re: CVS and Images

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hyslop
Mychael Scribner wrote: I have a simply little question. I do a lot of web based project that often have images. Is their and do's or don'ts that I be watching for with images. Should I not include them when I import a project? There's no reason to exclude them. Just make sure you mark them as

watch on dir

2005-05-12 Thread Pedro Hernandez
Hello folks! cvs 1.11.20 on Whitebox Linux 3 I'm trying to make a directory watched by default, reading in Cederqvist Command: cvs watch on [-lR] [files]... ... If files includes the name of a directory, CVS arranges to watch all files added to the corresponding repository directory, and sets a

hello, everyone

2005-05-12 Thread Fei Li
Hi, How to get a CVS server and client web site http://cvshome.org Thanks ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: hello, everyone

2005-05-12 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fei Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to get a CVS server and client web site http://cvshome.org http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net -- Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD)

Re: watch on dir

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hyslop
Pedro Hernandez wrote: Hello folks! cvs 1.11.20 on Whitebox Linux 3 I'm trying to make a directory watched by default, reading in Cederqvist Command: cvs watch on [-lR] [files]... ... Is this a bug in cvs, the doc or in my head? It's a bug in CVS. The workaround is to issue the command from within

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-11 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 S I [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do I set this value on the server side? I'll look at it. Thanks You will wish to look and see if it is set by checking out the CVSROOT/config file from the repository. Read

newbie

2005-05-11 Thread td
where can i find faq for that group? where can i find anything about encrypting the CVS storage content? td ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: newbie

2005-05-11 Thread Larry Jones
td writes: where can i find faq for that group? The starting point for all things CVS is: http://www.cvshome.org/ where can i find anything about encrypting the CVS storage content? CVS has no repository encryption support. Depending on what problem you're trying to solve, it may

Help with History Log

2005-05-11 Thread SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN \(SBCSI\)
Hi All, I am using the following command to generate one History Log Output. cvs history -c -a -D 20050504 The output looks like this, M 5/4/200513:13 0 pg5658 1.42 LSFReportGenerator.java CentrexMateEJB/ejbModule/com/sbc/telecommgr/ejb/util/list/lsf == remote I

Re: branches and merging

2005-05-11 Thread Arno Schuring
Venkatesh, Vijay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess this is a fairly often asked question but just wanted to run this by everyone to get some feedback first. (am referring to the essential cvs guidebook) Have two branches app4 and app4_test, which I need to merge (and have done so already into the

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-11 Thread S I
OK, topleveladmin on the server is set to NO. Should it be set to yes? But per Richard or Arno, I renamed the cvs subdir (to mycvs) and I'm fine now checking to the root, however, a new problem has come up: if the projx already exists on the root when I originally did cvs co -P projx,

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-11 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 S I [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, topleveladmin on the server is set to NO. Should it be set to yes? It should be set to do what you intend to see done. The default is NO. But per Richard or Arno, I renamed the cvs subdir (to mycvs) and I'm

Re: branches and merging

2005-05-11 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arno Schuring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Venkatesh, Vijay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess this is a fairly often asked question but just wanted to run this by everyone to get some feedback first. (am referring to the essential cvs

Re: branches and merging

2005-05-11 Thread Arno Schuring
That was more response than I had even hoped for. This is a good candidate to become a sticky at my desk somewhere :) Thank you! Arno I haven't done much merging myself lately, but I always believed a branch-to-branch merge needed two states (tags) of the source branch, and the current state of

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-11 Thread Jim Hyslop
Mark D. Baushke wrote: If you see that you are indeed configured to use TopLevelAdmin=yes, then Arno Schuring's analysis that you are unable to create and populate a C:\CVS directory is likely the root-cause of your problem. I think the analysis Arno provided is exactly right, and has nothing to

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-11 Thread S I
Thank you guys for all your help. That other 2nd problem went away after I rebooted. You guys were right, the cvs folder interfered and made a mess. Thank God or helpful people. :) Original Message Follows From: Jim Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark D. Baushke [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Re: branches and merging

2005-05-10 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkatesh, Vijay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess this is a fairly often asked question but just wanted to run this by everyone to get some feedback first. (am referring to the essential cvs guidebook) Have two branches app4 and app4_test,

cygwin's CVS and remove login

2005-05-10 Thread farseer
Hi, I have successfully setup up a CVS repositiory using CYGWIN on my XP box. I would now like to allow a remote user to be able to update and commit to this repository. How can i do this? i have looked at some instuctions out there on the web, but none seem to offer instructions on how to

RE: w00t, I got cvs to work!!!

2005-05-10 Thread Thorsten Schacht
Please specifiy your actions. In $CVSROOT/CVSROOT shouldn't be a passwd file. Also there are no passwords saved in a passwd file. You have to do 'passwd user' and then type in the password two times. Thorsten -Original Message- From: twoeyedhuman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

merging into a release instead of main trunk

2005-05-10 Thread Gerrit Ruesing
Hello, how is it achieved that FreeBSD users can receive src files via cvsup that are tagged with a RELEASE tag (RELENG_4, RELENG_5,...) while the branch is under further development? Is it possible to merge one branch into another and have that available under the same tag? Everything I

Branch Numbers

2005-05-10 Thread SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN \(SBCSI\)
Hi all, How Branch Numbers are formed Internally in CVS. I read the manual it is really confusing. We have two branches, after we created the second branch, when the developers start committing the files, I found out that one file is committed with 1.12.2.1 And other with 1.1.4.1 Please help me

Re: Branch Numbers

2005-05-10 Thread Larry Jones
SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) writes: How Branch Numbers are formed Internally in CVS. Branch numbers are formed by appending an even number to the number of the revision the branch is based on. Since revision numbers are file specific, a branch has different numbers in different files. I

Re: Branch Numbers

2005-05-10 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Tue, 10 May 2005, SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote: How Branch Numbers are formed Internally in CVS. I read the manual it is really confusing. Branch numbers, like verison numbers, are independently assigned in each file. As branches are sprouted from version X.Y of some file, then the

Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-10 Thread S I
OK, I wrote this email and looks like it was bounced back or didn't get through to the mailing list, however, if it did, please pardon the redundancy. Hi I've tried 4 or 5 different Windows command-line versions of cvs.exe from (1.10.5 to 1.11.20). Created a folder called cvs directly under

Re: What exactly is HEAD anyway?

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
The more I look into CVS the less I understand. Perhaps you can help me... When using -r HEAD I do not seem to get the latest revision on the trunk: $ cvs log foo.c RCS file: /cvs/path/foo.c,v Working file: foo.c head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names:

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-10 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:57:48AM -0700 S I wrote: OK, I wrote this email and looks like it was bounced back or didn't get through to the mailing list, however, if it did, please pardon the redundancy. This mail went through. Anyway, the mail server often needs some time to deliver

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-10 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:51:50AM -0700 S I wrote: I don't have this problem on WinNT, however, only on WinXP or Win2003 servers. Well, ok. I use my XP (SP1) box (with a self-compiled cvs 1.11.17 on cygwin), set the paths correctly for accessing CVS and SSH, and tried it myself:

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-10 Thread S I
Thank you for your help. I searched the cvshome.org last week and found what it seemed, that couple of developers were talking and threading about this; yesterday, my search was not successful and I could not relocate that page again. I wish I had bookmarked it. Their site is NOT very

Re: SSH error: end of file from server

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew Wood
for bash or other bourne shell variations use: CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh; export CVS_RSH Thanks for that hint. I was doing it a slightly different way, which I thought was working as echo $CVS_RSH worked, but clealry CVS didnt like it! Andrew ___

Help with scripts

2005-05-10 Thread SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN \(SBCSI\)
Hi All, I am using the STAT CVS to produce the Commit Log Report. But the problem with that is, it is not producing the Commit Log for the Branches. Any ready made script is available to produce the commit log in CVS. Please help me with that. Thanks SARAVANAN SUBRMANIAN SCM Centrex Mate

Re: SSH error: end of file from server

2005-05-10 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for bash or other bourne shell variations use: CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh; export CVS_RSH Thanks for that hint. I was doing it a slightly different way, which I thought was working as echo $CVS_RSH worked, but

Re: What exactly is HEAD anyway?

2005-05-10 Thread Jim Hyslop
Andrew DeFaria wrote: The more I look into CVS the less I understand. Perhaps you can help me... When using -r HEAD I do not seem to get the latest revision on the trunk: As you've found, 'HEAD' means the latest revision on the trunk for all commands except 'diff', where it means the latest

Re: Branch Numbers

2005-05-10 Thread Jim Hyslop
SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote: Hi all, How Branch Numbers are formed Internally in CVS. I read the manual it is really confusing. We have two branches, after we created the second branch, when the developers start committing the files, I found out that one file is committed with 1.12.2.1

RE: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-10 Thread Arno Schuring
I'm not sure, but I might have (at least) a clue for you... Hi I've tried 4 or 5 different Windows command-line versions of cvs.exe from (1.10.5 to 1.11.20). Created a folder called cvs directly under C:\, pointed the path stmt to it. Created Home=C: and CVSROO envrionment variables, etc and

RE: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-10 Thread S I
Hey Arno Thanks. Duh! Sometimes I wonder about me. That didn't even occur to me. I'll give it a try tomorrow and will let you know. I think you may be very correct. On the NT machine, these errors did not occur simply because cvs.exe was just uder the root by itself not under its reserved

Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

2005-05-10 Thread S I
Do I set this value on the server side? I'll look at it. Thanks Steve Original Message Follows From: Mark D. Baushke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arno Schuring [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files

SSH-Agent, CVS and OS X Tiger

2005-05-09 Thread Thorsten Schacht
Has anyone used CVS with SSH authorization on OS 10.4? ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: SSH-Agent, CVS and OS X Tiger

2005-05-09 Thread Alex v . Below
Yes, no problems here Am 09.05.2005 um 13:06 schrieb Thorsten Schacht: Has anyone used CVS with SSH authorization on OS 10.4? ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: SSH error: end of file from server

2005-05-09 Thread Andrew Wood
I'm ignoring the problem on Windows for the time being because theres a separate mailing list for Tortoise CVS, but on OS X, where I'm running the normal Unix version of CVS, my OpenSSH client is at /usr/bin/ssh I've set the CVS_RSH environment variable to /usr/bin/ssh, /usr/bin and ssh, and

Re: SSH error: end of file from server

2005-05-09 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm ignoring the problem on Windows for the time being because theres a separate mailing list for Tortoise CVS, but on OS X, where I'm running the normal Unix version of CVS, my OpenSSH client is at

Locking a Branch

2005-05-09 Thread SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN \(SBCSI\)
Hi I need to lock a Branch, so that no one can check out or check in some information into it. I don't have access to the CVS host machine, but I am connecting it through the CVS Binaries Please help me out with that. Thanks SARAVANAN SUBRMANIAN SCM Centrex Mate

branches and merging

2005-05-09 Thread Venkatesh, Vijay
Hi, I guess this is a fairly often asked question but just wanted to run this by everyone to get some feedback first. (am referring to the essential cvs guidebook) Have two branches app4 and app4_test, which I need to merge (and have done so already into the app4 branch, so merged from app4_test

Can't checkout to my C: root directly

2005-05-09 Thread S I
Hi I've tried 4 or 5 different Windows command-line versions of cvs.exe from (1.10.5 to 1.11.20). Created a folder called cvs directly under C:\, pointed the path stmt to it. Created Home=C: and CVSROO envrionment variables, etc and successfully logged in to our linux repository where CVS is

Can't checkout to my C: root directly

2005-05-09 Thread S I
P.s. I meant to say WinXP desktop and Win2003 netwrk servers and repositories being on Linux servers. Thanks again Hi I've tried 4 or 5 different Windows command-line versions of cvs.exe from (1.10.5 to 1.11.20). Created a folder called cvs directly under C:\, pointed the path stmt to it.

Re: Locking a Branch

2005-05-09 Thread Jim Hyslop
SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote: Hi I need to lock a Branch, so that no one can check out or check in some information into it. First of all, do you really need to lock the branch? Can you not trust your developers? I don't have access to the CVS host machine, but I am connecting it

how to store source

2005-05-09 Thread gxkahn
The situation: You take open source project and make changes. What is the best way to keep changed source if you want to maintain original uptodate? Do not consider to send patch to original project. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

error: /bin/sh : cvs: commanf not found

2005-05-08 Thread Nigel Leung
Hi everyone, I am a newbie to cvs. Just recently managed to install cvs on my westhost vps (it wasnt great at all, no root permission, no xinetd.conf access). I planned to tunnel cvs connection thru SSH connection because there is no xinetd config file available on my vps. Anyway, I

SSH error: end of file from server

2005-05-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Any idea why I cant access a repository to checkout a project remotely, but I can on the local machine. I'm trying to do it with CVS on Mac OS X which is installed by default, along with OpenSSH. I'm also trying it with TortoiseCVS on Windows, which I beleive includes i'ts own SSH client (a copy

Re: SSH error: end of file from server

2005-05-08 Thread Russ Sherk
On 5/8/05, Andrew Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea why I cant access a repository to checkout a project remotely, but I can on the local machine. I'm trying to do it with CVS on Mac OS X which is installed by default, along with OpenSSH. I'm also trying it with TortoiseCVS on Windows,

Re: SSH error: end of file from server

2005-05-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Is your CVS_RSH env var set? I'm pretty sure it is on Windows, but what about OS X. Is this a standard Unix shell variable or what? echo $CVS_RSH just gives an empty line. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

Re: 1.12 to stable, when?

2005-05-06 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need a fature in version 1.12 of cvs (post-tagging hook). For what it is worth, backporting that single feature to cvs 1.11.x should not be that hard for you to do... How stable is the 1.12 branch? Is

Validations in CVS

2005-05-06 Thread Khurram Rashid
I just wanted to know if there is any way in CVS to do validation check in, i.e. Developer checks out a module from CVS Developer makes some changes in the code. Developer then checks in the module as validation check in. At this stage by validation check in I mean that the module has

Re: rcsinfo/loginfo exclude directories

2005-05-06 Thread Michael Starkie
Arno, This was most helpfulit works. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

RE: 1.12 to stable, when?

2005-05-06 Thread Matt Doar
Q) Are you using 1.12.x as your primary version of CVS? Yes. Q) Do you need more features for a stable release? No. ~Matt Maybe now is a good time to ask the question to this list. How many folks are already using cvs 1.12.x as their primary version of CVS and believe it is getting

Re: Validations in CVS

2005-05-06 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Khurram Rashid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just wanted to know if there is any way in CVS to do validation check in, No, CVS is the wrong tool for your task. i.e. Developer checks out a module from CVS Developer makes some changes in the

Re: Validations in CVS

2005-05-06 Thread Todd Denniston
Khurram Rashid writes: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list, or even to me directly. Plain text only, PLEASE! I just wanted to know if there is any way in CVS to do validation check in, i.e. Developer checks out a

Re: 1.12 to stable, when?

2005-05-06 Thread Dean Mills
We have three 1.12.x servers in production, no new features needed here for a stable release. On 5/5/05, Mark D. Baushke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe now is a good time to ask the question to this list. How many folks are already using cvs 1.12.x as their primary version of CVS and believe

Re: 1.12 to stable, when?

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Cheshire
Ditto. (Side note: I use a combination of command line cvs and gui cvs control with netbeans (3.6 and 4) because it has NEVER worked nicely (the gui that is) whether it is interfacing with the version I have installed or using its own. I assume that is because it doesn't get adjusted for the

w00t, I got cvs to work!!!

2005-05-06 Thread twoeyedhuman1111
Okay, I got it to work. The thing I was doing wrong was trying to do cvs init as root. Now I have another problem. (joy) When I give passwords to users in the passwd file in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT, they can't log in remotely. I don't know why, but when they don't have password and are listed they

rcsinfo/loginfo exclude directories

2005-05-05 Thread Michael Starkie
hi, how does one specify, in the common syntax, the exclusion of a file? For example, I want to apply a script called bugz.txt to ALL commits except modules listed at the bottom of rcsinfo. i have this regular expression in rcsinfo that I thought tells cvs to apply bugz.txt to all modules that DO

RE: Renaming a branch

2005-05-05 Thread David Leskovac
David Leskovac writes: Okay. So, just to be clear, this is actually a 3-step process: 1. Checkout branch: cvs co -r branchname module 2. Rename from sandbox: cd to root of module in sandbox cvs admin -n newname:oldname 3. Delete original tag name sandbox: cd to root of

Re: Renaming a branch

2005-05-05 Thread Larry Jones
David Leskovac writes: If the cvs admin -n command renames branches why the need to delete the original branch name? What happens if you don't delete the original name? admin -n doesn't rename the branch, it just creates a new name for it. If you don't delete the old name, you can use either

RE: rcsinfo/loginfo exclude directories

2005-05-05 Thread Bulgrien, Kevin
You are confusing [^] with ^ ^test-mode matches from the beginning of the line. [^1234] matches a character other than 1234. http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html I am not aware of a general purpose not for regular expressions. As a rule, regular expressions try to match

1.12 to stable, when?

2005-05-05 Thread Michael Muller
I need a fature in version 1.12 of cvs (post-tagging hook). How stable is the 1.12 branch? Is there a published timeframe for when 1.12 will be stable? Does anyone on this distribution have an estimate? -- Michael Muller Senior Application Developer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Inc. 2503 Walnut Street,

Re: rcsinfo/loginfo exclude directories

2005-05-05 Thread Arno Schuring
You are confusing [^] with ^ ^test-mode matches from the beginning of the line. [^1234] matches a character other than 1234. http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html I am not aware of a general purpose not for regular expressions. As a rule, regular expressions try to match something,

Re: contrib directory?

2005-05-04 Thread Jim Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is like the third reference I've seen to a contrib directory... where is it? As I said, it's in the source code distribution. Download the source code from www.cvshome.org. -- Jim ___ Info-cvs mailing list

RE: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-04 Thread Conrad T. Pino
From: Arthur Barrett hello, i downloaded cvs-1-11-20.zip from https://ccvs.cvshome.org but i cant find information about wich windows versions are supported. Is Windows 2003 server suitable for cvs server ? You may also need cygwin and other tools to run this version of CVS on Windows

RE: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-04 Thread Arthur Barrett
Conrad, hello, i downloaded cvs-1-11-20.zip from https://ccvs.cvshome.org but i can´t find information about wich windows versions are supported. Is Windows 2003 server suitable for cvs server ? You may also need cygwin and other tools to run this version of CVS on Windows Server 2003. The

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