Re: info without working copy

2001-03-15 Thread Francis Irving
You can use the RCS command "rlog" directly on a ,v file in the repository, but you have to have direct access to the filesystem that the repository is on. You can probably use another RCS command to make a tag, but then things start to get dangerous, as you would be writing to the same files as

Re: (newbie) CVS training materials

2001-03-06 Thread Francis Irving
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:31:06 -0800, "Lee, Jiou Pahn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to CVS and finally got everything set up. I am looking for some training material to teach the group the basics of CVS. I don't want to intimate them with the big books. Is there a simplified version of

Re: Removing directories...

2001-02-23 Thread Francis Irving
Two solutions: 1. Make everyone uses "cvs update -d -P" all the time. (Either via a GUI tool, by getting into the habit of it, or by changing your configuration files so it does it). 2. Delete the actual folders in the repository itself. Of course, this loses backup of the deleted files in the

Re: [francis.irving@creaturelabs.com: Re: Removing directories...]

2001-02-23 Thread Francis Irving
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 01:03:33 -0800, Rob Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting this Francis. This brings up an interesting point; I have been wondering about this for some time now, and I can't think of a situation where not doing a "cvs update -d" when a new directory is available

Re: What's in repository

2001-02-20 Thread Francis Irving
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:09:13 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've browsed both the Cederqvist and the the Fogel book, and I didn't see anything related to this, although I don't really know what "it" would be called, so I may have looked in the wrong place. Is there a way to: 1. "Browse" the

Re: Releases and version numbers

2001-02-19 Thread Francis Irving
On 19 Feb 2001 13:34:02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Grojohann) wrote: Suppose I have a software package which contains of many individual files (a Perl module). And suppose I want to make several releases. Then I'd make a tag to apply to all files. But how do I embed into the files the right

Re: One working copy part of two repositories?

2001-02-19 Thread Francis Irving
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:50:10 +0100, Stefan Bellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine you're porting a big program from one platform to another. The main tree of the program is already held in CVS. So I check out a working copy from this main repository. During the porting I want to have full

Re: CVS and OLE Automation

2001-02-14 Thread Francis Irving
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:44:27 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to this so bear with me. ; ) I am trying to write VB code that at one point has to update files from a CVS repository. I guess I could just use the shell command: shell ( cvs update ... file ) The redirect is so that I

Re: version control with shared workplace

2001-02-09 Thread Francis Irving
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:15:34 -0500, Eric Siegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I wrote a couple of months ago (with a few small revisions) in response to a similar question. I guess it's a FAQ (hint to that person who's compiling one). Thanks for that, it was very useful! We have the