Re: Triggers links to defect tracking systems

2001-05-08 Thread David H. Thornley
a local repository or the rsh/ssh transport, I don't know of any way to do it with the :pserver: method of interaction. And here I'm just getting the shop on pserver. Fortunately, I'm not looking for interactivity, just compliance. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer

Re: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread David H. Thornley
. These patches were written against an earlier version of CVS, so use with caution.) -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david

Converting from ext to pserver

2001-04-24 Thread David H. Thornley
? (I can't remove accounts from the CVS server at this time, meaning that it would take some time and some good reasons and likely some money to do so.) Is there anything else I should watch for during the conversion? -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES

Re: Diff between update and checkout/commit

2001-04-20 Thread David H. Thornley
would think that export would be a closer analog of a copyout or retrieve. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread David H. Thornley
H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david/ ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread David H. Thornley
ible. Given that this could be a plug-compatible replacement to everybody but the admins, why would it be new and entirely different? -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552

Re: CVS setup

2001-04-06 Thread David H. Thornley
and store it in binary. I'd *much* rather store the text as text. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david

Re: CVS setup

2001-04-05 Thread David H. Thornley
of something unspecified. Diatribes against proprietary Intel-based operating systems are unnecessary, unless they contain something amusing I haven't seen (or said) before. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763

Re: cvs server not translating line endings correctly

2001-04-05 Thread David H. Thornley
? Are there things to watch for that I wouldn't notice immediately after running it (I figure I back up and test immediately)? -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http

Re: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

2001-04-03 Thread David H. Thornley
"Greg A. Woods" wrote: [ On Monday, April 2, 2001 at 09:56:28 (-0500), David H. Thornley wrote: ] Subject: Re: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ? Philosophically, this seems to be a Platonist approach to software tools, and you're in a community of Aristotelians.

Re: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

2001-04-02 Thread David H. Thornley
at they need to make screwdrivers more paint-can-lid compatible. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi

Re: cvs update

2001-03-21 Thread David H. Thornley
Without actually bothering to find out myself whether this would work or not, how about cvs update * ? The * should expand to a list of files in the directory (which may of course be too long to feed into the command-line arguments), and so the update should apply only to the existing files. -

Re: *some* files get checked out readonly

2001-03-15 Thread David H. Thornley
not experiment on my repository to find out.) -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david/

Re: Checkout - do not get local copy

2001-03-13 Thread David H. Thornley
eptable for you, you might want to investigate other options. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi

Re: cvslines opinions?

2001-03-12 Thread David H. Thornley
/freeware/cvslines/ And then do a google search to actually find the thing. It hasn't been updated since '97, and is not available at its own site. Those seem like reasons not to mention it. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] bug tracking systems

2001-02-28 Thread David H. Thornley
is still not ready enough for me to recommend for the company (actually, I'm waiting for 4.1), so we're still using what I had intended as a temporary solution. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home

Re: questions on cvs locking

2001-02-16 Thread David H. Thornley
doing some serious rewriting or switching to another system. Have you looked at Noel Yap's patches at the Renegade CVS project on Sourceforge? He's added some functionality to the "cvs edit" system which makes it closer to being a lock. -- David H. Thornley Softwar

Re: 2 how to in CVS questions

2001-02-16 Thread David H. Thornley
at you're saying, and so I can't possibly help you. If you tell me in low-level detail what you want, I can probably tell you it can't be done in CVS (since that's true of most of such questions). If I understand what you're trying to accomplish, I might be able to come up with something appropriate.

Re: FW: Website development

2001-02-16 Thread David H. Thornley
ow and how you're doing it. Whether this means using something else or changing the process is a judgment call. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://ww

Re: 2 how to in CVS questions

2001-02-16 Thread David H. Thornley
t and have to use CVS. You can use CVS inside the tool, but you're going to have to wrap functionality around it. I don't see any other way. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552

Re: Strict Locking for checkouts

2001-02-13 Thread David H. Thornley
n. The idea of merging changes together without locks has proved very successful on many projects. Why would it not work on yours? -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PRO

Re: Trying to set up cvs + ssh + mac client

2001-02-07 Thread David H. Thornley
, and SourceForge (and presumably other places) want SSH 1. I hope that helps... Sure does. Thanks. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com

Re: Trying to set up cvs + ssh + mac client

2001-02-06 Thread David H. Thornley
and MacSSH on macssh.com. The config instructions for MacSSH include how to do a tunnel, but I haven't set it up yet. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://ww

Secure remote CVS

2001-02-05 Thread David H. Thornley
about the networking involved. Any pointers? -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david

Re: Spaces added ... and line endings in general

2001-01-25 Thread David H. Thornley
erful solution isn't immediately obvious. The significant thing is whether this would benefit a large enough group of people to make it worth doing as some sort of option. I think it would, but I'm not volunteering to do the coding on it. -- David H. Thornley Software Eng

Re: Spaces added ... and line endings in general

2001-01-24 Thread David H. Thornley
for trying to use a accent- and jargon-based joke in an international forum.) -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david/ __

Re: Multi-user working directories

2001-01-09 Thread David H. Thornley
in the master source files. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david/ ___ Info-cvs

Re: Free CVS Host ?

2001-01-08 Thread David H. Thornley
does run a much more professional shop than I do at home.) -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david

Re: Multi-user working directories

2001-01-08 Thread David H. Thornley
problem with what I've suggested, please tell us what it is. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david/

Re: locking a file

2000-12-19 Thread David H. Thornley
any sort of added security problem to give developers permission to do what they already can do. If you aren't the sysadmin, then, talk to the sysadmin. Adding a group, and adding members to the group, is fairly easy. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES Internation

Re: Multiple developers in one work area

2000-12-18 Thread David H. Thornley
but I find it difficult to consider that a fault. I think that the correct thing for you to do is to try to find an appropriate tool or adapt a somewhat inappropriate one, and that is what you are doing. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL

Re: CVS question

2000-12-07 Thread David H. Thornley
ing merged. If it begins with a C, then your version is incompatible for some reason with the version in the repository, usually because both you and somebody else have made conflicting changes. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL

Re: checkouts control

2000-12-04 Thread David H. Thornley
d updates of the files will be read-only, and this will be a reminder to "cvs edit" before working on the files. (Yes, the developer can change permissions by himself or herself. If you can't trust somebody to follow basic procedure, fire that person.) -- David H. Thornley Software Engi

Re: incorrect return code on vms...

2000-12-01 Thread David H. Thornley
Donald Sharp wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:47:52AM -0600, David H. Thornley wrote: Donald Sharp wrote: If the return codes for a program are reversed on vms, such that success = 1 and failure = 0, then cvs would always exit with a failure on vms systems. Attached

Re: incorrect return code on vms...

2000-12-01 Thread David H. Thornley
hat should be fixed. CVS is supposed to be portable, and any main() should return only EXIT_SUCCESS or 0 (which are interchangeable) and EXIT_FAILURE. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612

Re: incorrect return code on vms...

2000-12-01 Thread David H. Thornley
code widely distributed before people realized they weren't very good ideas after all. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623-0552 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.visi.com/~thornley/davi

Re: locked files

2000-10-30 Thread David H. Thornley
Thomas Olausson wrote: This topic has been discussed numerous times and I still haven't seen an absolute need to use "cvs admin -l". Well, some people don't trust that if someone gets a conflict when trying to merge, that the resulting file will be OK, because of human errors. I

Re: checkout via tagname, then can't add

2000-10-19 Thread David H. Thornley
ed tracks, which can be the trunk or a branch. Remember that, while the users should be concerned with tags and not revision numbers, CVS has to have revision numbers. What revision number should the file as modified have? -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CE

Duplicate messages

2000-09-22 Thread David H. Thornley
FWIW, I also subscribe to the gnu Gnats mailing list, and just got a couple of pairs of emails from there. I'd suspect gnu rather than egroups. -- David H. Thornley Software Engineer at CES International, Inc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (763)-694-2556 at home: (612)-623

Re: why wast time to write a FAQ?

2000-09-15 Thread David H. Thornley
Tobias Weingartner wrote: I'm going to agree with this wholeheartedly. *Most* of the FAQ's asked here are of the form "Why can't I, or How do I, do 'locking', etc". If those people had bothered to read the manual, they would have (with even half an IQ point) noticed that CVS advocates a

Re: CVS, Proxies, and Firewalls -- Oh My!!!

2000-09-05 Thread David H. Thornley
Mike Friemann wrote: The company that I work for has two offices in the US. We decided to look into CVS so that both offices would have access to the same source repository. The server sits out on the web and the clients are behind a firewall. We can get WinCVS clients to connect to a

Re: CVS revision number problem

2000-08-29 Thread David H. Thornley
pei1 wrote: Dear Sir / Madam: We decided to bring the major revision number up to 3.1 so I did a command: cvs commit -m "Change major revision number." -r 3.1 This is almost certainly the wrong thing to do. It is best to leave the revision numbers alone, using them only as