Removing a branch

2002-05-02 Thread Danial Islam
What is the safest/best way to remove a branch full of files from the repository? I was thinking that cvs rtag -d or cvs tag -d are not sufficient enough. Danial. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Upgrading to 1.11 from 1.10

2002-05-02 Thread Danial Islam
In UNIX, if I had the repository and all the scripts set up in CVS 1.10, then if i start using the binary for CVS 1.11 during the middle of our code development, will my repository get screwed up? Danial ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Refreshing my working directory

2002-05-01 Thread Danial Islam
le directory instead of getting all the files merged? I can't use "cvs update -C" because I have version 1.10, which doesn't implement it, and it is a hassle for everyone else to upgrade to version 1.11.1. Danial. ___ Info

Re: #cvs.lock error in Emptydir

2002-05-01 Thread Danial Islam
I had this problem before. I think you have to set write permissions (e.g. chmod -R o+w *) on the directories you want to checkout. They're probably set to read-only now. Danial. Arcin Bozkurt wrote: > This is what I get when doing an update: > > cvs server: Updating . > cvs

Re: Write permissions on files

2002-04-26 Thread Danial Islam
Actually i did at first remove that line. But CVS wouldn't log in anymore, it gave me an error saying it can't find CVSROOT. So I had to use the "cvs -w line". Danial. Larry Jones wrote: > Danial Islam writes: > > > > Yes I have tried to read it. I don&#

Re: Write permissions on files

2002-04-26 Thread Danial Islam
Noel Yap wrote: > --- Danial Islam ?[EMAIL PROTECTED]? wrote: > ? Hmmm. it's always been like this on my machine as > ? well as when the repository > ? was on another machine. I don't have the $CVSREAD > ? environment variable set, so > ? I do not know what my proble

Re: Write permissions on files

2002-04-25 Thread Danial Islam
No, I am not applying any watch on these files. Just the usual pserver stuff. Danial. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Danial Islam writes: > > > > > > Instead of performing a "chmod +w filename.c" on each file you want to > > > edit, is it possible to ha

Re: Write permissions on files

2002-04-25 Thread Danial Islam
Hmmm. it's always been like this on my machine as well as when the repository was on another machine. I don't have the $CVSREAD environment variable set, so I do not know what my problem may be. Danial. Larry Jones wrote: > Danial Islam writes: > > > > Instead

Write permissions on files

2002-04-25 Thread Danial Islam
Instead of performing a "chmod +w filename.c" on each file you want to edit, is it possible to have write permissions set automatically on a checkout or update? Danial. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailma

Re: Login message

2002-04-23 Thread Danial Islam
I know that, but it may create confusion among first-time CVS users if nothing happens on login. I want to know if there is a script to issue after logins. Danial. Larry Jones wrote: > Danial Islam writes: > > > > Is there a way to notify the user that they have logged

Login message

2002-04-23 Thread Danial Islam
Is there a way to notify the user that they have logged in successfuly after entering the password on a "cvs login"? Danial. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

viewing the history

2002-04-15 Thread Danial Islam
st|CAIPRS|CAIPRS7670|test O3cbae1fe|melgemai|/test|CAIPRS|CAIPRS7670|test O3cbae383|melgemai|/test|CAIPRS|CAIPRS7670|test Therefore, how should I run the 'cvs history' command so that it shows the entire history (i.e. for all users) in a readable format, sim

Re: ViewCVS Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Danial Islam
Oh gosh... nevermind. I realized you don't move the viewcvs.conf file into your apache/conf directory (unlike cvsweb.conf)! You configure viewcvs.conf in the directory where viewcvs was installed. I set up rcs_path and it worked. Danial. Danial Islam wrote: > Anyone tried using

ViewCVS Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Danial Islam
act that rcs_path in viewcvs.conf is not set properly. But I have tried different paths to rcs as well as downloading and installing RCS 5.7 on my Solaris 5.8 machine. Still no luck. Danial. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: finding out the branch or tag date

2002-04-11 Thread Danial Islam
Should be: cvs history -T brianpdoyle wrote: > Once you have created a branch or a tag on a module is there a way to > find out the date and time that the branch was created? Thanks. > > ___ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu

Updating branch w/ file added in trunk

2002-04-11 Thread Danial Islam
#x27;file.c' is added and thus all the branches need to be updated with this new file. How will I do this? Would I have to use the brute force method, i.e. manually copy 'file.c' from the trunk's directory to all the branches and do a 'cvs add file.c' on them all? Da

Committing files that were tagged (sticky tags)?

2002-04-11 Thread Danial Islam
check-in any files that I modified from it, it says the sticky tag is not on a branch. How would someone be able to checkin from a tagged part of the stream? Or would I have to create a branch from Release1 and then have them checkin to this branch and merge to the MAIN stream f

Re: Group permissions to branches

2002-04-09 Thread Danial Islam
Here is my shell script, attached. Perhaps you know how I can fix it up, or maybe I can have a look at your code? Danial. Brian Poynor wrote: > You can't really do this with the CVSROOT/passwd file. But if you are > primarily concerned about who can commit to Branch A and Branch B (as

Group permissions to branches

2002-04-09 Thread Danial Islam
is be done in UNIX? How would I modify the CVSROOT/passwd file to accomodate this? Right now my passwd file currently has [unix ID]:[encoded password] for each user. Any help would really, really be appreciated! Danial. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [

Merging multiple vendor branches

2002-04-01 Thread Danial
Hi, I'm trying to merge a tree into a branch but am having some problems. First of all, I have an already existing tree called X which I want to merge into Branch_X. (See diagram below) The developers will commit their code in X and I will do the merges into Branch_X. "Main" is a new tree which

CVS watch command does not work!

2002-03-22 Thread Danial
Hi, I'm trying to enable the watch feature in CVS but it doesn't seem to work. Is there some option I need to enable to make this work? I tried using "cvs watch on filename.c" and also "cvs watch add filename.c" (filename.c is a valid file name) and I got the following result both times: Usage