I hope this might be useful to someone

2001-06-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Hi all, I was asked by some of my developers to develop a way to show what's changed between rtags, and in some depth. Now, as you all know, the following: $cvs -q rdiff -s -r $rtag1 -r $rtag2 $modulename Gives you output like this: File module/foo/bar.jpg is removed; not included in release

Re: Why is revision on 1st import 1.1.1.1 instead of 1.1?

2001-06-25 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Charles Sutton wrote: > > (Hmmm... why is the short answer longer? :-) Because the short answer is a subset of the long answer. :P ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: Archiving a project

2001-06-21 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"Furmaniuk, Michael" wrote: > > We currently have our repository set up with all of our projects as high > level directories, in this sort of idea: > >--- project 1 --- code > / > system -- project 2 > \ >--- project 3 ...etc >

Re: repository surfing

2001-06-21 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"Schwenk, Jeanie" wrote: > > I've got two engineers here who want to be able to just view the files in > the repository without checking them out. These are ex-ClearCase users and, > let me quote "I could do that in ClearCase." Yes, they are aware they can > checkout read-only. They don't wan

Re: FW: RE: commit message fails

2001-06-20 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"McCann, Brian" wrote: > > > Since you and Dan seem to be so smart you would think that you would > > have picked up on the type of shell I'm using by the "$", I submit a Not necessarily. On my box I have "$" regardless of whether I'm using sh, csh or ksh. What it comes down to it what you've

Re: Future CVS Development

2001-06-20 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"Greg A. Woods" wrote: > > [ On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 at 15:14:37 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ] > > Subject: RE: Future CVS Development > > > > In fact, you can extend > > this to work for directories as well. > > Huh? Sure. You could chuck ls -lR at sed & awk, dump that to textfiles and have

Re: Future CVS Development

2001-06-20 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"Greg A. Woods" wrote: > That's one of the most meaningless paragraphs I've ever read, even in > this forum. You don't read Slashdot then, eh? :P ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: CVS tags

2001-06-14 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"Derek R. Price" wrote: > > Alexander Kamilewicz wrote: > > > cvs -q get -r releasetag > logfile > > cvs -qn co -r releasetag module Very true. I was wrong. Need more coffee ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EM

Re: CVS tags

2001-06-14 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Tim Wensink wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a question regarding CVS tags. I want to have a list of files > that are in a certain release. Is there a command within (win)cvs that > allows me to specifiy a certain tag and then generates a list of all > the files that have that tag? cvs -q get -

Re: Windows->Linux question.

2001-06-13 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Mikael Aronsson wrote: > > My ADSL internet connection does not work with Linux (yet) If possible, you want to get yourself one of these: http://www.ars-technica.com/reviews/01q2/netgear/rt314-1.html ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: How to set up a complex project

2001-06-13 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Fran Fabrizio wrote: > > Hello, > > Until now I've only used CVS to set up relatively simple projects, and > now I'm needing to do something a little more complicated. I have a lot > of questions about how to properly leverage CVS in this situation. The > situation is as follows: > > We're wo

Re: how to identify a release

2001-06-13 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Matthew Riechers wrote: > > Andreas Wolff wrote: > > > > I want to identify a release of my source. > > > > I understood that the tag mechanism can be used for this purpose. But in > > this case I have to apply the tag to each file. I am afraid that in big > > projects with lots of files this may

Re: Mail after a commit

2001-06-13 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Larry Jones wrote: > > Harald Kucharek writes: > > > > Hi Larry, one question: Do you run a mail robot on all mail coming in from info_cvs > > which parses for keywords and spits out a posting with the appropriate link into > > the manual? > > I *am* a mail robot. :-) > > -Larry Jones "Larry

Re: 'cvs log' for changes between revisions shows all revisions for files that do not have the tag

2001-06-13 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"Jones, Clinton A" wrote: > > After experimenting with cvs2cl.pl, I found that I could not get the log > information that I want. The problem is not the script, but in how the cvs > log command works. > > I'm trying to create a ChangeLog that shows only changes that occurred > between two relea

SOLVED!!!: Re: Help with CVSWeb

2001-06-13 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
g forward slash and redirect to the correct URL. Basically my server (well, not mine, since I'm not the webserver admin) doesn't do this. So now I'll just make a page with a link to the script that includes the last forward-slash and everthing will be happy. Woo-hoo!!! Alexan

Re: Help with CVSWeb

2001-06-12 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Hi Karl, Karl-Heinz Marbaise wrote: > > Hi there, > > The problem: I'm trying to install cvsweb > > (http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/), and it won't show > > anything below the initial cvs directory (see below for specifics). > Have you checked the permissions of the direct

Help with CVSWeb

2001-06-11 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Hello all, I know this isn't CVS, per se, but an add-on, but I'm hoping, given the amount of experience here, that some of you have installed cvsweb successfully and can help me out. The problem: I'm trying to install cvsweb (http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/), and it won't sh

Re: general organization of CVS modules

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Fran Fabrizio wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a couple of general questions. > > 1. Say I have a web project that consists of some CGI scripts and some > static pages. The CGI scripts are in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/, the > static pages are in /usr/local/apache/htdocs. I want to make it al

Re: CVS bashing?

2001-04-18 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Eric Siegerman wrote: > > I haven't experienced any flakiness -- at least not with recent > versions; it was worse in the past. But then, I haven't put any > large binaries into CVS, so I wouldn't know about that. The only flakiness I've noticed with large binaries is that if you do an import o

Re: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

2001-04-06 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"David H. Thornley" wrote: > > Here's the situation I'm looking at. > > We do most of our work in conventional programming languages like > C++ and Java and Perl, and these work very well with CVS. We use > HTML for some documentation, and that generally works well > (although I have little expe

Re: Accidentally merged out code.

2001-03-29 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Andy Bradford wrote: > > Thus said "Alexander Kamilewicz" on Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:24:34 CST: > > > > Usually this is caused by someone doing an update while they have a file > > > loaded into a text editor and then saving the file over top of the > &

Re: Accidentally merged out code.

2001-03-28 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Larry Jones wrote: > > Andy Bradford writes: > > > > I'm not sure how to describe this situation, but I'll try. Two people > > had copies of the repository (I believe the same). The first person > > made changes and committed them. The second person also made changes > > and committed them. T

Re: Windows GUI fro CVS

2001-03-28 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Gurgen Martikyan wrote: > > Any idea how to setup WinCVS to connect to cvs using ssh? > > Thanks Unfortunately no, I just use pserver with it, which should be fine in most cases. Why do you want to use ssh? > "Alexander Kamilewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Windows GUI fro CVS

2001-03-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Patrick Lynch wrote: > > Alex, > I just started using WinCvs on a Windows 2K client connected to a Windows NT > File Server and it works very well... > I gathered that WinCvs worked on Mac too but I didn't realize that it worked > on Linux. > Thanks, > Pat Well, WinCVS will work on Windows-only,

Re: Windows GUI fro CVS

2001-03-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
> Charles wrote: > > I'm looking for a good GUI for windows machines to connect to a Linux > box with CVS, any recommendations? WinCVS: http://www.cvsgui.org Alex -- This message is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named herein. The information contained in this message is conf

Re: Multiple log messages?

2001-03-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Chris Chambers wrote: > > When I modify files under CVS and perform a commit, it often brings up my > editor several times for different log messages, with different, seemingly > arbitrary groupings of files. > > Why is that? What's it doing? It's possible that the administrator is having commi

Re: cvs checkout

2001-03-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
irina sturm wrote: > > I've noticed the following behaviour > on the "cvs co" command and I would > like to know if this is normal, and why. > > I have the following situation in the > repository: > > - >| 1.1 | Tagged with Head_vers_1_1 > - > | >

Re: Error in trying to checkout directories

2001-03-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
"Brown, Bob" wrote: > > I am using WinCVS 1.2 > > When I try to do a checkout module, it grabs all of the files > from the module just fine (supportsite) but it always fails on > the sub directories with this error message. > > cvs server: Updating supportsite/docs/DFA_info > cvs server

Re: CVS Question

2001-03-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Richard Abbott wrote: > > Maybe this is a silly question, but is there any way to check out a single > file that is in a module (rather than the whole module)? I believe: $cvs get -d put_it_here_directory module/foo/bar/zap/zing/dong/ding/dang/gork.htm should work. I hope that helps! Alex _

cvs imports slow to a crawl

2001-03-21 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Hi all, I use cvs import regularly on many of my modules because I get versions of these modules that aren't under CVS control. Anyway, usually these are reasonably fast. However, recently they have slowed to a crawl. I'm running cvs import on the same machine where the repository is, so netwo

Re: querying non-rtags?

2001-03-05 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
ciate advice on that. Thanks, Alex Alexander Kamilewicz wrote: > > Hi all, > > I feel bad that since my original question a few months ago I haven't > tried to answer anyone else's questions. I hope that eventually I'll > feel comfortable enough with CVS to rea

querying non-rtags?

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Hi all, I feel bad that since my original question a few months ago I haven't tried to answer anyone else's questions. I hope that eventually I'll feel comfortable enough with CVS to really help out people. That said, I need help. I know that: $cvs history -T -a | grep modulename will get me

Re: Merging Question

2000-12-22 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Aha! That makes considerably more sense than what I was trying to figure out on my own. Since changes generally haven't been made to the local repository copies, there have been no conflicts, but the Vendor history _is_ being kept. Thanks so much for your answer - I feel a lot better about how

Merging Question

2000-12-22 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Hello all, I'm new to the list, and hoped to lurk a bit more before sending out a question, but I find myself in need of some help. Some background: The CVS repository I am using was set up by someone else. I've been told to start using it and to get a number of our products under CVS control