List of files associated with a tag

2002-04-19 Thread Duncan Sommerville
Hi, Is it possible to get a list of files associated with a tag without actually extracting the files to a workspace - I tried the following, but with no luck: cvs -n co module -rtag Thanks, Duncan. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Delphi Forms using CVS

2002-02-12 Thread Duncan Sommerville
Hi, Does anybody use CVS for controlling Delphi source-code? If so, should Delphi Forms (*.dfm) be treated as text or binary files (or as required via the cvs admin operation)? It would seem that they're typically text files, however under certain circumstances they appear to embed binary

Canonical Substitution

2002-01-25 Thread Duncan Sommerville
Hi, Is it the client or the servers job to perform CRLF -- LF substitution when transfering text files between Windows and Unix platforms? Many thanks, Duncan. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Listing available tags

2002-01-21 Thread Duncan Sommerville
Hi, Is is possible to list all the tags associated with a project, without actually checking the project out and checking individual files? Likewise, is it possible to get a list of all tags in a given repository? Many thanks, Duncan.

conflict algorithm

2002-01-07 Thread Duncan Sommerville
Hi, Whats the definition of a conflict? In particular, what's the *scope* of its search - is it per line, per couple of lines, etc? I'm developing a CVS client and I'm not sure if some of the conflicts I'm getting are due to the server's algorithm, or because of a fault in the way I'm

Re: logs meaning : please help traduce the letters.

2002-01-04 Thread Duncan Sommerville
What does the following letters mean ? U P C M ?? Hi, U - Local file updated P - Local file updated (patch sent for performance) C - Conflict detected when merging changes with local file M - Local file is modified (possibly successfully merged) The following link explains most of

Re: About merging when no CVS dir are present (David D)

2002-01-02 Thread Duncan Sommerville
But I update no conflits where found cool, But when I commit I hava a lot of messages like this : cvs commit : connot commit with sticky date for file 'toto/toto.php' I dont know what to do ? It looks like you need to pass the '-A' argument to the update command in the first instance - see the

Re: Accidental -kb option used when adding a text file

2002-01-02 Thread Duncan Sommerville
I accidentally used the -kb option when adding a text file to my cvs repository. Is there any way to “undo” this operation? Regards, cvs admin -kv myfile.txt Typically you need to do an 'update' afterwards for the change to be reflected in the workspace, however in my version of CVS (1.10)

Re: Re: How to add cvs user?

2002-01-02 Thread Duncan Sommerville
cp /etc/shadow /var/cvs/CVSROOT/passwd The CVS passwd file does not have the same format as the shadow-passwd file - check out the following: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC30 Kind Regards, Duncan.

Re: Import output - how to interpret

2001-12-29 Thread Duncan Sommerville
cvs import produces various output line begining with different key letters (like N or I). None of the sections in my manual concerning `import' discuss this aspect. Hi, N - New file (ie successfully imported) I - Ignored file (ie not imported) Section 3H.13 (part (7)) of the CVS FAQ

CVS Server and Load-Balancing/Redundancy

2001-12-21 Thread Duncan Sommerville
Hi, Is the CVS repository-locking mechanism strong enough (or designed) to allow 2+ CVS servers potential access to the same repository? I'm using version 1.11 running under OSF1. This would be for load-balancing and/or redundancy purposes in a production system... Many thanks, Duncan

Re: Newbie...very confused...trying to get started

2001-12-21 Thread Duncan Sommerville
Is there some sort of documentation out there like CVS for dummies that I can review to start from the ground up. I found the following book to be extremelly informative, in addition to the 'Cederqvist': Open Source Development with CVS [2nd Ed] by Fogel/Bar Some chapters of this book are

Re: Incorrect 'Entries' timestamp?

2001-12-21 Thread Duncan Sommerville
At 09:42 21/12/01 -0500, you wrote: Incorrect 'Entries' timestamp? I searched the internet and newsgroups, but I can't find any detailed information on 'Entries' files and timestamps. http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#IDX38 When I checkout a module, the file list in the

CVS modules and checkouts/updates

2001-10-30 Thread Duncan Sommerville
. Many thanks, Duncan Sommerville. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: CVS and Delphi

2001-10-19 Thread Duncan Sommerville
Hi, I'm currently involved in writing a CVS client-component in Delphi, and fully intend to use it to manage all our (predominantly) Delphi source-code. So far so good, and I've found absolutely no reason why CVS wouldn't be appropriate. Do you intend to use WinCVS to handle the canonical