RE: Again: multiple vendors

>Hi, can advice how to unsubscribe form the mailing list? List-Id: Announcements and discussions for the CVS version control system List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive:

Re: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 27, Issue 40

>Hi all, >I am using eclipse cvs repository view for downloading the cvs >repository jar files. >Could any one pls tell me how the jar files can be downloaded after >importing them to the cvs repository. You need to make sure they are of type binary, either when importing or later with the admin

Re: Updating revision number on a branch.

>>Heh, I think you misunderstood my second message. I meant that we >>wanted to make the change for cosmetic reasons, not that it WAS a >>cosmetic change. After reading on how the branches are created, I >>understand why you don't want to mess with those. However, I don't >>understand what the

Re: Urgent help needed: recover lots of files from Attic

>I've accidentally removed a whole source tree, which contains > 500 source code files >(plain text only, no binary). > >I searched the web, and found ways to recover files from Attic one by one, namely: >- use "cvs admin -o 1.x (deleted file)", or >- use "cvs update -j 1.x -j 1.y (deleted file)"

Re: Checkout./export a copy to /var/www

>I use WinCVS to checkout a copy on my PC. When I do a commit, the file >checks in a linux server. I would like a committed file to be checked >out/copied/exported to /var/www/myproject. > >When I search for this, I keep finding this (for the loginfo file): >^cyclic-pages (date; cat; (sl

Re: Reverting a concrete revision

>It does not work. It does do nothing!. > >My idea is generate a new revision but deleting changes made in a very old revision... Did you check out the file or update to the newest version? What is the output of cvs when you apply the update command? bye Fabi ___

Re: Reverting a concrete revision

>A file with 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 revisions. > >Generate 1.6 tah contains code from 1.1, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.5, I mean to NOT include >changes made in 1.3 revision > >Checking out last revision (1.5) and doing "cvs update -j 1.3 -j 1.5" that does >nothing... Use the same command but change the

RE: loosing branch when updating to a tag on the branch

>> This brings up a question I've had for quite a while: is >> there a way to "close" a branch? >The only thing I can think of offhand would be to mark the tip of the branch >as dead, by using 'cvs remove'. It won't prevent anyone from resurrecting >the branch, though. It defeats version control

Re: authorization failed

>I run into a strange problem for few days. I can cvs -d :pserver:. login without >failure message but a soon as I send any cvs request I get (for example): > >cvs annotate: Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password > >cvs [annotate aborted]: authorization failed: server se

Re: Undo the update

>I resolved the conflicts the while merging the branch in main trunki but was unable >to commit. > >Was getting error of sticky tag. So I run the update -A command. Now I lost all the >conflicts I resolved during the conflict > >Is there any way I can undo this update operation as I didn't tak

Re: move away ... it is in the way

>>cvs up >cvs update: move away ./32-well Rotor.jpg; it is in the way >C 32-well Rotor.jpg > >>del "32-Well Rotor.jpg" > >>cvs up >cvs update: warning: 32-Well Rotor.jpg was lost >U 32-Well Rotor.jpg >cvs update: move away ./32-well Rotor.jpg; it is in the way >C 32-well Rotor.jpg Looks like you

Re: Newbie at wits' end: please help!

>OK, here's the situation: > > bash% pwd > /home/krugman/scratch/d0 > bash% ls -F > bar/ foo/ > bash% cvs import -m test myproj krugman test > cvs import: Importing /cvs/myproj/foo > N myproj/foo/hello.c > cvs import: Importing /cvs/myproj/bar > N myproj/bar/ciao.c > > No conflicts cr

Re: Creating a CVS environment

>However, the issue I have is that we have no access to a Unix Server >as we are completely PC based, sharing files on a common group drive, >and it is my understanding that you cannot locate a CVS repository on >a shared windows server. Is that correct ? This works fine. You only can get issues

Re: ignored 'core' directory

>Another thought: Since people or surprised especially on import, >wouldn't it be nice to warn the user whenever a file or directory is >ignored? This way, the user at least is informed that something went >wrong. That already happens, cvs prints a message for each file with description. So it lo

RE: Best method to replace a branch's code

>thanks but I need to retain branchA and branchB - just overwrite branchB >with code from branchA Checkout branchB, export branchA, copy all A files to B sandbox, commit. (And maybe add/remove files first). bye Fabi ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAI

Re: Global option ignored

>> I know that the -l was removed from recent versions but I never created or >> changed a .cvsrc file. Can I prevent this error except by upgrading the >> cvs tools? > >Only by not using the global -n and -R flags. They both imply -l but >the 1.12.1 client doesn't differentiate between an explic

Global option ignored

Hi I'm quite sure I just read about this recently but I can't find a mail mentioning it again. We just set up a new repository and tried to work with it. Goes fine except some errors I couldn't resolve yet. Server: cvs 1.11.9 Client: cvs 1.12.1 (both Linux) inetd.conf: cvspserver stream tcp nowa

Re: message "Local access to network share not supported (Use -N to override this error)"

>> I'm having the same problem with my install of Tortoise. >> Except I don't know where to put the -N flag. >> The FAQ refers to putting it in a .cvsrc file in my home directory BUT >> Win2K doesn't allow a file to be named ".cvsrc" Create any file, go to DOS window and rename it. bye Fabi

Re: Bug with entering Log messages using editor other than vi

>the cvs would open a gvim editor window. AND at the >same time say >log message empty or unmodified >a)abort c)continue I guess it's about how editors handle files. Some work with the file itself, others make a copy in /tmp and work with this. So the original file is immediately released. An

Re: Can't change ascii/binary type of file

>A few months ago I mistakenly committed a Crystal Report (*.rpt) file into CVS as an >ASCII file. This broke the file, but no one noticed for a while. Recently, I >realized my error and tried to correct it by removing the file from CVS, then >re-committing it as binary. > >It appears, howe

Re: CVS Through Proxy

>How can a Windows CVS client like TortoiseCVS configured to access a CVS repository >through a proxy server? I don't know if Tortoise uses an external cvs program or builtin routines. If it's an external program you can try to replace it with the one from WinCvs. This has support for proxies. T

Re: Deleting from CVS repository

>We have Eclipse/WSAD clients accessing our CVS server on AIX. When you >delete projects/files from Eclipse, files seem to goto the Attic folder on >the actual repository, but projects still remain there after deletion, only >get deleted from the local developer's workspace. Do they have to be >ma

RE: Ignore dirs/no-ext-files

>> Is it possible with .cvsignore/CVSIGNORE/cvswrapper to ignore >> a directory? >Yes, just put the directory name in a .cvsignore file, in the parent >directory of the directory you want to ignore. Hmm, should have already known that. I will try this out, thanks. >> And as other variant: Can I

Ignore dirs/no-ext-files

Hi Is it possible with .cvsignore/CVSIGNORE/cvswrapper to ignore a directory? Or are these only applied on the single file names? e.g. ignore bin/* or something? And as other variant: Can I make a rule for files without extension? *. or just * didn't work. Thanks bye Fabi __

CVS users from NT domain?

Hi We have a Linux box used a s file server and for cvs with :pserver. But as we have a mostly Windows Network the users are still kept in a NT Domain. Is there a possibility to do the cvs authentification with the NT users? Maybe with Samba? This is already running for the file server. Or can we

Re: CVS to VSS

>Is there any other way in which i can migrate data from CVS to VSS.Like i want to >move data from CVS to VSS as nightly builds. >I want to keep both CVS and VSS.I do the everyday work in CVS . >But nightly builds i want to move it to VSS .IS there any way i can move data from >CVS to VSS. Why

Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum

>> We once had the minor problem that somehow files showed up twice >> (e.g. doing an update). It turned out that the case of the file itself >didn't >> match the entry in the entries file. So cvs once reported the file from >> the entries file and then again while looking for unknown files. It >b

Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum

>I was investigating case sensitivity, thinking that it was somehow >necessary for the support of Windows clients, when it occurred to me >that the _only_ value-added feature this provides is that Windows users >don't need to specify the case of files and paths correctly in remote >commands. We o

Re: Merge point confusion.

>So I merge A into B, and then commit to B > >Then when I try to merge B into Home, I _still_ get conflicts - because >A's delta is being merged twice? I think? I never did merging branches, but from what I know I'd say you're right. cvs doesn't know that some changes in B came from A and w

Re: Procedural ways of using CVS.

>I'm interested in how people organise their in-house projects from an administrative >point of view with CVS, for example, when they use branching, tagging and how (or if) >they use CVS with ant, anthill and how they manage frequent builds and releases (ie, >every 30 minutes) > >There is a br

Re: cvs export end-of-line translation

Hi As for checking out with different line endings: I haven't tried this but you could use a windows cvs.exe and run it with wine on *ix, that may give you DOS-endings even on *ix. bye Fabi ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.g

Re: using proxy

>>From what I've read, cvs does not support using a proxy. I found a patch on >google but it was pretty old as were all the other messages. > >Is it still the case that cvs does not support going through a firewall? If >cvs does support it, a link to the reference would be very appreciated. I

Re: Committing on a previously tagged version with WinCVS

>I understand that I can't commit a 1.7 version to a 1.8, because 1.8 >already exist. I think I should branch and tag before updating to and an >older version. But now is not possible. >What should I do now to discard the 1.8 version and keep working (and >committing) on the tagged version ? The

Re: problems with a unicode file

>I am using WinCvs 1.3 . I added to my repository a pdf file with the 'add unicode' >option since the system warned me when I tried to use 'add binary'. When I checked >it out I couldn't open it because it results corrupted , so I've deleted the file and >added it once again forcing WinCvs to

Re: ucing commitcheck to test compile code

>I have setup a commitcheck.pl file to test comple any perl source which is >added to a repository, i would like to do the same with gcc for any c/c++ >code. Has anyone already done this, or have a useful commitcheck script. Is >there a command which lets you just test a c file for syntax? (Fo

Re: mailing list settings....

>hi guyz I noticed that when replying to a mail, it will send to the >persons/senders mail not to the groups email is this normal settings in >this mailing list?? Use "Reply to all", then you should have both addresses. Having the senders address as standard reply is good, otherwise mails like er

Re: Branch Merging

>cvs update -j v3_1-patch x.c >(x.c was still currently at revision 1.21) > >The update went fine (I think) file was merged etc. But just to make >sure I did a few diffs on the files etc. and noticed that yes it did >move my new lines near the bottom of the file but it completely dumped >the late

Re: Filenames with a blank

>Running Windows 2000, using CVSNT as server, TurtoiseCVS for clients and having >problems when filenames with a blank in it are stored in the repository. How can I >solve this problem? 1. Read in the mail archives, this question has come up some times. 2. Don't use spaces :) bye Fabi ___

Re: just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water

>Tom Maciejewski: no such user >cvs checkout: authorization failed: server rejected access to >/files/fxfo/CVS for user maciejet Is the user now "maciejet" or "Tom Maciejewski"? I think you have something mixed up. bye Fabi ___ Info-cvs mailing l

Re: testing the new settings

>I just tried to create a new repository& >Is there a way to check if it is really successfully installed and if >It is working? You can check if there are the necessary files in repo/CVSROOT. See the manual for what files there should be. If it works you can check by applying a few cvs commands

Re: branches off of branches

>Likewise.. > >cvs update -j TEST -j DEV -m > >means migrate changes from TEST to DEV, and remember the migration. >Then, if, inside head: > >cvs update -j TEST -m > >this would migrate the TEST changes into head... on a > >cvs update -j DEV -m > >it would remember that the DEV changes have alre

Re: Checking if two versions are the same

>[ In any case, I would prefer a simpler solution, in which I dont need to check >stderr, and preferrably even not stdout, only the exit status of a command. This is >because the algorithm needs to run in several environments. ] Whatever cvs command you run you have to parse the text output. Yo

Re: Setting up CVS

> Indeed, unfortunately I'm the new guy, and it's a small setup, and they've just > been throwing stuff together for the past 30 years or so, simply to get it to work > in the easiest way possible with the least amount of effort... It started as an > accounting firm, and then a computer progra

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

>We should have been happy with running "make distclean" before running >"cvs import". > (snip) >find . -print | xargs rm We use cvs in our IDE for the customers. Upon creation of a project there are already many source files from the (embedded) OS. These files are already precompiled as

Re: Moving Repositories

> I am in the process of moving a UNIX CVS repository from one company (and country) > to another (still UNIX) and would like to avoid problems, yes I am new to CVS. I > have read the book by Cederqvist etal, but am still have questions. What exists is > /home/sfw/cvsroot/CVSROOT with the *,

Re: Ignore local changes?

>>Always, and only ever, modify a copy of any file if you don't want CVS >>to see your changes to it! > >I can't imagine I'm the only developer that makes local changes to try something out, >but wants to be sure those changes do not end up in the repository. Maybe you could setup your system th

Re: cvs checkout

>I want to checkout a dir avoiding some unwanted sub-dirs. >I know that I can omit dirs by tagging the rest of the dirs and >doing a checkout as "cvs co -r rel1" >I have a test dir and I don't tag that dir. >When I do a "cvs co abc", this test dir should not be checkout. >What should I do for thi

Re: Need help regarding state

>thank you Fab for your help, but i have 4 versions from 1.1 to 1.4,it's >showing that 1.2 is dead.How to recover version 1.2? You can't change the state of 1.2 but you don't need to. If you need the content you can just check out this version even with dead state. cvs checkout -r1.2 file. bye

Re: Need help regarding state

>what's meant by dead state? >how one version goes into dead state? Dead means removed from the HEAD (but still available for older versions). So someone made cvs remove file, cvs commit file. >how to recover from dead state? Just re-add it. cvs add file, cvs commit file. bye Fabi ___

Re: How can I tell CVS to take a directory as the latestVersion of a branch?

>I have a version of my project, which changed very much since the last >checkout. there were files added, removed and moved, so a normal commit won't >work as I expect it to, especially since CVS wont let me add any files to the >branch. Why doesn't cvs let you add files? What does it say? Is

Checkout -c Problem

Hi I have a problem with the new version 1.11.5 with modules. I could checkout the modules file with chekout -c but that doesn't seem to work anymore. If I replace it with 1.11.1p1 it works again. I don't have the interim releases. cvs.exe -t -d P:\Z_K\Pec3000cvs2 checkout -c -> main loop with C

RE: Commit inconsistency: Up-to-date check did not fail thoughit sho uld have !

>Hmm, this is interesting. I have always been (and still am) of the >opinion that one should always commit individual files, and never ever >do a 'cvs commit' on the top level of a module. Why? Because top level >commits usually create poor log messages (same for all files), and >because it makes

RE: checkout problem: UNRESOLVED

>when i make "cvs co -c" i get an error message: >"cvs [checkout aborted]: failed to open the modules file" > >Probably the file is corrupted ? You can rebuild it with cvs init. But I don't know if this works with a corrupted file. But you can try to delete the ,v in the repository and and then m

Re: checkout previous version with only version info

>I would like to know if there is a way to checkout a previous version of >a file specifying *only* the version information. > >I know I can checkout previous tagged version, but my previous versions >are not tagged. I know I can checkout previous version based on date b

Re: Discouraging :local:

> Well, generically speaking Ethernet's FCS field is a 32-bit CRC of the > whole data frame. However if I understand the math correctly that means > that only 32-bit or shorter errors (remember Ethernet is serial) can be > detected reliabliy and "only" about 99.955% of error bursts longer than >

Re: unknown compression

I am getting this error while checking out data from Linux CVS Server thru my Windows CVSClient. Can anybody help me to understand the cause for this problem. COMMAND supplied: cvs -z9 -q update test.h (in directory C:\work) ERROR: cvs update: inflate: unknown compression method cvs [upda

Re: CVSROOT write permission vulnerability

I'm starting to wonder if removing :local: mode might not be a bad thing. It would make things more awkward on single-computer installations (at home I use it on the Linux box, and pserver on the Macs and Windows box), but it would stop people from doing something natural that turns out to be da

Re: Empty val-tags file

> > >cvs.exe -t update -rVERSION15 VarioSam/Applicat/Src/Iologger.cpp > > > >-> main loop with CVSROOT=:local:n:/temp/variosam > >cvs.exe [update aborted]: no such tag VERSION15 I'm clueless at this point. Just out of curiosity, does it make any difference if you run the command in the director

Re: Empty val-tags file

The root with forward slashes (in all cvs meta data root files as well as environment variable) didn't help either. As cvs finds the repository and just complains about the tag I didn't have much hope on this anyway but I will try everything to get it to work. (Otherwise my customer lynches me :)

Re: a list of changed files

>You should be able to get what you want from "cvs rlog -S". Unfortunatelly, this seems not to be the clue. There is no such option for rlog in version 1.11.1p1 (which I use). I imagine st. like this: cvs my_cmd -D mydate1 mydate2 mymodule and it should generate a list of files which were cha

Re: Empty val-tags file

Although you switched to forward slashes in the command, you'll not that your root still contains backslashes. Is n: really a local drive, or is it some kind of network share? If it's a network share, then the problem is almost certainly some kind of bug or incompatibility in the network filesys

Re: Empty val-tags file

> >cvs.exe update -rVERSION15 VarioSam\Applicat\Src\Iologger.cpp > > cvs.exe [update aborted]: no such tag VERSION15 Hmmm. Perhaps the backslashes are confusing CVS (you should always use forward slashes with CVS); try using forward slashes and see if that solves the problem. If not, please r

Re: Empty val-tags file

> Problem is now that I get a "no such tag" error on some operations > if it is not in the val-tags file. And I don't know what to do to get it in. > Some operations work (log file, checkout module), some do not > (diff, checkout file). But those that work don't update the val-tags > file. If I

Empty val-tags file

Hi I've used now cvs for quite a while and never thought I'd run into such a problem. But anyway here it is. We tag our sources from time to time as it should be. But for some reason not all tags go into the val-tags file. In some repositories it's even empty. According to docu this shouldn't mat

Re: Excluding (ignoring) a folder while importing a project(related to "import" command)

I am about to import a project into CVS, but I have a "data" folder inside this porject tree, which holds over 1GB of mp3 files. I apparently do not want to import this "data/" folder into the repository. So how can I tell CVS to exlude this data folder while importing it. You can put the folde

Re: last log entry

I'm running CVS 1.11.1p1 (client/server) on HP-UX 11.0. I really need to find a way to get the last log entry for every file. rlog does not seem to be working. What's wrong with this: cvs rlog AsyncEvent.java cvs rlog: cannot find module `AsyncEvent.java' - ignored But the file is in t

Re: List files of a Tag

on NT first suggestion: install cygwin and do unix method. on NT second suggestion:* reboot to unix & do unix method. on NT third suggestion: you might be able to use MS "find" instead of grep but good luck on redirecting stderr and stdout. *someone being less annoying than me MAY know of a way

Re: AW: using .cvsrc in client-server setup

Windows 98 does not allow me to name/create a file as ".cvsrc" I tried naming a file just cvsrc and setting HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.It doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how they accomplished setting global options on windows 98?Any other suggestions? I really really need cvs co -P,update -P and up

Re: Splitting a respository

So, we have this *huge* respository with in essence two branches in it. How, if at all possible, can I split this into two different CVS repositories while still keeping the history? What about copying the whole repository and then removing again the unneeded stuff (files, revisions -> admin -

Re: "cvs commit" features

>>Of course, a user can always use "cvs add" and "cvs remove" to add or remove >>files, but these two options can help him/her make sure they didn't forget >>to do this for some of the files. > > This is one of those things that might work really well, but only > for certain development

Add proxy support to cvs?

Hi At the moment I'm using WinCvs because it's the only way to get over our company proxy. It's not possible with native cvs. But I'd like to work with normal cvs so I can also use it on the Linux box. The guys from WinCvs added proxy support so it's not impossible. Wouldn't that be something for

Re: Combining modules in top dir

> >Like this I get the same directory structure. > >/mod1 > >/mod2 > > > >Then I tried with an ampermod: > >allmods &mod1 &mod2 > > > >But if I checkout allmods I get > >/allmods/mod1 > >/allmods/mod2 > > > >Is there a way to prevent allmods? I can only rename it with -d, but not >omit. > >How ab

Combining modules in top dir

Hi I wondered if it is possible to checkout several modules/directories in one step preserving the dir structure. If I have two mods mod1 and mod2 I can do: cvs co mod1 cvs co mod2 Like this I get the same directory structure. /mod1 /mod2 Then I tried with an ampermod: allmods &mod1 &mod2 But i

Case problem

Hi all I work with cvs 1.11.1p1 on NT4.0 with a local repository. Usually it works quite well. But sometimes it has a problem with filename cases like the following: cvs.exe -q -n update N:\Temp\Pec3kcvs4 U N:\Temp\Pec3kcvs4/OS/Src/CINOSFixed32.cpp U N:\Temp\Pec3kcvs4/Os/Src/CINOSFixed32.cpp cv

log only changed files

Hi With cvs log -rLAST_TAG:: I get a list of all files and the changes they had since this tag. Unfortunately the state of every file is printed out, even if there wasn't a change at all. If only few files changed I have to look through all of it to find them. I know, scripts are a nice way to f

Ignoring (binary) files in update/commit

Hi I've read through the archive and there are quite a lot of postings concerning one or the other aspect but I still have a problem. My first intention was to store the binary project files in the repository as well as the source code. But this only to have a compileable project after a checko