Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

Mark D. Baushke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Constantin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... If someone wanted to hack in an automagical recognition system that could be enabled for binary file types, I suppose we could consider adding it. It already exists, it's cal

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, Hi ! ... If you have so much fear about binary files, why don't you put * -kb into your cvswrappers, and declare any text file explicitly? This way, you cannot miss the binary files. Actually, that was suggested 3 years ago as well. It turns out to be a very

Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...

Peter Connolly wrote: Too dificult to set up, I think Shouldn't cvs have a list of binary file types preinstalled in the cvswrappers ? I agree, it should. I second that ! I did 3 years ago. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09098.html BTW - the cvswrappers file in the postin

CVS Introduction slides

Hi info-cvs guys, I just recieved an email from Reg. Charney with a pointer to slides on CVS that was presented recently at the accu meeting in San Jose. I thought you'all might be interested. Reg. Charney wrote: I have now posted a slightly improved version of the CVS slides that I used on Tu

Re: question

fred wrote: already have setup a cvs depository on solaris 2.8 system running on unix port 2409. how can i create additional repositories on the same box?. what is the best way to hanlde this?. What is the issue ? * create a new directory (repository) * cvs -d init * add a --allow-root= to t

Re: this may be odd

You add a new one named "CVSROOT" Kent E. wrote: Hi to all, This may be odd question but I've got to throw it out, where would I set the CVSROOT environment? Classpath? Path? Kent ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/

Re: Setting up CVS

Kristopher Hollingsworth wrote: Yes, trying to set up a repository for Source Code, and the goal is to have it running on 3-4 machines here in the office, all on a LAN. All Windows machines. That's the goal, is just be able to have programmers at each workstation be able to access the code on th

Re: Setting up CVS

Kristopher Hollingsworth wrote: Greetings, I'm trying to set up CVS for the first time and have no clue as to what I am doing, and I've read through a great deal of documentation, and am still completely lost at where to begin, so if someone could just point me in the right direction, it would

Beware cygwin and CVS - moving tree risks.

This is just a friendly note for anyone using cywin and CVS in a mixed environment (with samba and linux). As you are probably aware CVS stores it's control files as text files and does not like spurious "\r"'s in random strings that it reads. FINE - trees checked out on unix remain as trees c

Re: cvs via http

Christopher Mihaly wrote: Is there a way to access a remote cvs repository via http? I've looked on-line and found some web browsers, but not any tools that allow you to access your CVS repository using the http protocol. I saw one reference about a patch that might be applied but no respon

Re: Where is WinCVS?

Volpe, Christopher R (Research) wrote: Strange. www.wincvs.org works for me. You must have a cached entry in your DNS server. Some DNS servers on .org domains are down ... $ dig wincvs.org ; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> wincvs.org ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode:

Re: Working with binary and common files in the repository

Giohanna MEndez wrote: Hi, I am trying to load into my cvs repository some files (all my files, minus *.o files) to make the version control, but I want to load some files in ascii mode (to make in this the version control, f.e. *.c; *.h) and the others in binary mode (only for save this fi

Re: Backing Up CVS

David Gagnon wrote: Hello, If I need to automate the backup (during the night for example), what I need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to use unix batch file? What is the best way to do that? Here us my backup script crontab entry # 30 5* * * /root/cvsbackup_1perday -

Re: Share repository between Linux and XP server

Paul Grenyer wrote: >*** Before acting on this e-mail or opening any attachment you are advised to read >the disclaimer at the end of this e-mail *** > >Hi > > > >>Bear in mind that Linux is case-sensitive but Windows is only >>case-preserving. If you're not careful, some weirdness may >>res

Re: (no subject)

You can do this using ip filtering. Check out ipchains or iptables which is OT. Regards G Josh wrote: > As I am running the CVS server (v1.11.2 pserver) on a > (linux) machine with two network adapters I would very > much like to know if it is possible to bind the server > to a specific n

Re: CVS over NFS

Shatzer, Larry wrote: >I've looked over the archives and see that CVS+NFS = bad. But in what >aspect? From the archives it appears where the clients access the >repository, in a non client/server method, using NFS is bad. What if the >server you have, running pserver/ext/ect itself is the only m

Re: Moving CVS repository

Eric Siegerman wrote: >On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:42:44PM -0500, Joi Ellis wrote: > >> find . -type f -name 'Root' | \ >> xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/localhost/some.hostname/' >>[...] >>I prefer using perl rather than a 'cp' because some of our modules >>are nested and I don't trust the Root

Re: Migrating from VSS to CVS..

I used it - worked great ! There are a coupla gotchas - read the readme. Matt Riechers wrote: >uj wrote: > >>Can any body having experience on how to migrate from vss to cvs. >> > >I have never used it, but there is a vss2cvs script at > that may prove u

Re: removing sandbox files ignored or not registerd via cvs add

Janning Vygen wrote: >How can i easily remove all files in a sandbox which are > >1. not yet registered in the repository via cvs add /cvs import >2. are ignored by .cvsignore or internal ignore list (like .o ~ etc.) > Usually this is part of the build e.g. make clean or make distclean So, y

Re: Automagic CVS :-)

Witchman wrote: > > >2. Is there a freeware tool that will help me automate builds? > What specifically do you want here ? somthing like gnu make ? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: Committing files that were tagged (sticky tags)?

I think you can simply create a branch tag over the top of Release1 e.g. cvs co -r Release1 srctree cd srctree cvs tag -b Release1_Branch cvs update -r Release1_Branch give it a try on a test repository Danial Islam wrote: >I have this example where I tag my stream at different point, b

Re: About the SPAM

Maybe the legitimate Korean users should go over to the ISPs supporting the SPAM and smack them really hard ! Paul Sander wrote: >Good idea, but I'm sure that there's one legitimate user somewhere in >Korea who doesn't want to lose access to this list. > >--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PRO

Re: About the SPAM

how about filtering anything comping from *.co.kr ! > > >If you are good in defining maildrop-filterrules you can mail me >a filterdescription to filter out mails with malformed charset and/ >or for german and english people unreadable subjectline. >

Re: grin ...

Many thanks. R P Herrold wrote: >4 hours in -- 6 pieces of spam did NOT post here, caught by >the new settings. > >-- Russ Herrold > > >___ >Info-cvs mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > ___

SPAM VOTE

I'm in favour also - I get 99% of all the spam in my Inbox from this list. So far it's been 1405 spams in the last month alone Down with SPAM ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: cvs benchmarks

ance, source tree limits and performance and the >like. I have some metrics from the CVS Web site, but I was hoping for a bit >more. > >Dave > > > >-Original Message- >From: Gianni Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:37 AM >To

Re: cvs benchmarks

What kind of performance metrics are you looking for ? or How big is this source tree you're going to be using ? G Daniels, David F wrote: >Can anyone point me to any benchmarks on CVS's performance? > >Thanks, >Dave > >___ >Info-cvs mailing list >

Re: RH 7.2

bash: export CVS_RSH=ssh tcsh setenv CVS_RSH ssh Bryon Lape wrote: >NO, how do I get cvs to use something other than rsh? > >James Knowles wrote: > >Is there anyont to get cvs to run a >different (more secure) command? > We use ssh exclusively, >>>How? >>> >>We're not usi

Re: where is inetd.conf?

it uses xinetd You'll need the file: /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver make sure /etc/services contains: cvspserver2401/tcp# CVS client/server operations --- somthing like this - # default: on # description: The cvspserver provides support for cvs network connect

Re: need convert script: visual sourcesafe --> cvs

vss2cvs - http://www.laine.org:8080/cvs/vss2cvs/ Wolfgang Kormann wrote: >if you know such a script, please post me > >thanks! >Wolfgang Kormann > > >___ >Info-cvs mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > __

Re: OT: C++, yuck!

You can't be serious ! *Every* language has problems. There is no panacea. I happen to think that C++ has a large number of positive things going for it and it's much further along the track of stabilization than any other language with it's capabilities. So, even though C++ has "niggling yu

Re: Automatting cvs retrieval using Windows NT/2000 "at" command

It's looking for .cvspass ! G Michael Stopper wrote: >A search of existing threads didn't reveal anything useful on this so here >we go: > >I've got my build process completely automated via Ant (including checkout, >tagging, etc.) and can kick that off at will from a command prompt on >NT/200

Re: login -> connection refused

Did you 'kill -HUP inetd' or re-start inetd ? Which OS are you running ? Maybe your system uses xinetd. G Softwareentwicklung Hauschel wrote: > Hi all, > > in my /etc/services i have add the entry: > > cvspserver 2401/tcp > > > > in my /etc/inetd.conf i had add the entry: > > cvspserver st

Re: pls enough of that connection refused

you will need the following (what I use) --snip- # default: on # description: The cvspserver provides support for cvs network connections \ # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication. service cvspserver { flags = REUSE socket_type = s

Re: Connection refused

Olav Lindkjølen wrote: >>> Even i haven't seen any cvspserver daemon running on the Linux server. >>> What is the problem? >> > > Run this command on the linux box (as root): netstat -nlpd > > You should get among several other lines a line that says inetd or > cvspserver is listening on port

Re: CVS Operation

CVS does not operate on directories, it operates on files. Once you have created a directory it's there foreverver (unless you pop into the repository and remove it by hand at the risk of breaking someone else). To "remove" a directory, remove all the files in it and then do a 'cvs update -P

Re: Developer branches

I've found that is you plan to make a 'disturbing' change, it's best to do that in a branch - get it working and merge it in. The idea is that the HEAD branch *must* always build (at least after a short period (hours max) of instability). So multiple dev branches for big collaborative chang

Re: Binary files

anamika mathur wrote: >Dear Friends, > What all things we should keep in mind >while using binary files in cvs? >1> if a file has been added in the repository >directory >without using import -kb option. How can we stop the >keyword subsitution and canonical endings in these >files? > r

Re: checkout/update is broken in cygwin

must be a problem with cacheing directory entries or somthing like that in cygwin. Another 2 hours wasted ... Gianni Mariani wrote: > > When I try to check out a branch using cygwin's cvs (v 1.11) there is > a falure when checking out a specific directory. > > When I check

checkout/update is broken in cygwin

When I try to check out a branch using cygwin's cvs (v 1.11) there is a falure when checking out a specific directory. When I check out the head using cygwin it all works fine. Linux works fine. There is nothing strange in the repository. If I move away that particular directory from the

Re: someone shortcircuiting this list to razor-report?

I second the motion to move this list. I'm going to remove myself from the list anyway if this keeps on going so moving it to some kind trash safer alternative sounds like the better alternative. So, what are the alternatives ? Donald Sharp wrote: >This issue has come up before( repeatedly

Re: need help with binaries

check out cvswrappers. I have attached a cvswrappers file that I use. So far, I have had no problems. asd asd wrote: >hi, > >does anybody know, or can give me a hint about adding binarie files. > >i want to add them without telling cvs to add with the -kb param. >is there a way to add files,

Re: Help: how can I spoof the commit date for conversion

vss2cvs.pl does this my running a post-processor directly on the RCS files. Sounds wild but it works ! If you're clever enough you can use the same one. http://www.laine.org:8080/cvs/vss2cvs I think the laine.org domain name expired. You might be able to track it down, if not, give me a hol

Re: cost of CVS...

This is kind of a "how long is a piece of string" question. I would feel comfortable reccomending Linux over NT simply because I have used Linux as a CVS server in a heterogeneous environment (Win*, Mac*, Solaris and Linux) and it has worked like a charm. As to the cost, it depends ... As to

Re: cvs error, please help

You need to figure out what is causing the cvs pserver to die. Check the system log. /var/log/messages on the server. You could try setting : `$CVS_CLIENT_LOG' Used for debugging only in client-server mode. If set, everything sent to the server is logged into ``$CVS_CLIENT_LOG'.in' and everyth

Re: Newbie Question

You first need to "check out" from the repository if you wish to cvs add ! Normally the first thing you do is "cvs import" - then "cvs checkout". check out: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_3.html#SEC39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone > > I am new to CVS please help me o

RE: remote cvs connection analasys (debug)

maybe you can try a tcp forwarding thingy. http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcp_forward/ and tweak it to dump the transaction. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harry Putnam Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: CVS Sharing

  You can "share" dircetories.   So if all the bits you care about are in a directory, you're all set, you just need to provide a script for your folk to check out the sources.  The script is simply multiple "cvs co" commands with a few "cd's" interspersed ! -Original Message-Fro

RE: renaming a branch?

You can create a synonym of a branch using: cvs admin -nNEWBRANCH:OLDBRANCH and then you can remove OLDBRANCH. -- Strong suggestion is to back up your repository, I've only tested this - I've never used it in anger. There's no rolling back from mistakes. -Original Message- From: [EMA

RE: branch-naming

Matt, cvs tag -b creates a new branch - not an alias. You want to create tags that have the same revisions as the branch tags. You can use rcs commands to do just that. (or cvs admin as Andy pointed out) cvs admin -nNEWTAG:OLDTAG Will create a synonym of OLDTAG, not a new branch. G

RE: branch-naming

your risk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gianni Mariani Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:06 AM To: Wim_DAUSY/BE/ALCATEL@ALCATEL; Matt Riechers; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: branch-naming Apart from going to each individual file

RE: CVS behind a firewall.

Which incoming ports do you restrict ? You should probably restrict 0-1023,5990-6009,2401(:)),5432 (and a few others). If you restrict them all then no packets can come through unless you set up a specific 2401 tcp proxy server. My strong suggestion is to ask a different mailing list, you'll pr

RE: CVS behind a firewall.

This is not a CVS question. This is a firewall administration question. You'll have better luck asking a networking group. Having said that, as a guess you have a far too restrictive firewall. If you do not have any services running on a particular port, firewalling does not increase your sec

RE: CVS - setup reserved checkout

Wow, Greg meets his match ... Bryon, Consider this: 3 developers (A,B,C) need to fix file X. A is making some major changes, adding lots of new functionality. B and C need to make a minor tweak to the file. In a CVS model: B anc C can be done and outa there in minutes and essentially forget

RE: Anyone have VSS2CVS?

me, so all arguments I can get are usefull Thanks in advance Fernando > -Original Message- > From: Gianni Mariani [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sexta-feira, 12 de Outubro de 2001 08:07 > To: Alex Jacques; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Anyone have VSS2CVS

RE: Anyone have VSS2CVS?

Try: http://www.laine.org:8080/cvs/vss2cvs/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Jacques Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anyone have VSS2CVS? The site for vss2cvs (http://www.laine.org/cvs/vss

hash.c:312 - abort on commit

cvs 1.11p1 I'm not sure exactly how this state came to be, but it sure is annoying. The repository is accessed by both Windows and Linux boxes. So, we have a policy that all file names be lower case only. This avoids problems with ambiguity in windows land. So someone checked in a file "I

RE: Connection timed out

Try to telnet to port 2401 . It may be that port 2401 packets are being filtered. You could use the rsh/ssh method to access the repository if those protocols are not filtered. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Federico Vaca Sent: Friday,

Re: CVS

You mean this: http://www.sub.nu/mod_cvs/ ? Dhotre, Shekhar wrote: >hi all, >Trying to configure cvs with apache. >any pointers to documents or tips .. > >AIX4.3.3 CVS apache .. > > >thanks > >Shekhar. > >___ >Info-cvs mailing list >[EMAIL PROTE

PLEASE STOP RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

Greg & co, We on the CVS list have had this debate many times, I am guilty of my own debate with Greg, my apologies. Compare Gary to the immovable object and the rest of us to the invincible force. Conclusion. Use CVS the way you want. Patch it, submit your patches, be happy. If you have a

RE: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

. You can always create utf8 unicode files that are much more portable and don't require an internationalization genious to figure out how to make apps work. -Original Message- From: Gianni Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:42 PM To: Larry Jones; Har

RE: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

CVS should handle Unicode as utf-8. I can't think of any reason why it would not. Unicode (as utf-16) is probably a waste of time to support as anything but binary. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Jones Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 20

RE: Two CVS Servers

Short answer - don't do it. The CVS repository contains all the history about your project. If you set up a duplicate CVS server then it needs to have an exact copy of the history of what is in the original CVS server *ALL THE TIME* hence there is no way you can make a duplicate CVS server, well

RE: Errors and missing information in node "loginfo" in cvs.info

Jakub, I find the loginfo interface unreasonably difficult, regardless of documentation errors you note below. There are too many inconsistantcies that I decided to patch it and create a non-shell program as the loginfo parser and added some extra loginfo filter elements that means I don't need

RE: adding directories and files directly under /cvs

At a guess ... A) Naming a directory "cvs" is bad if you want it under CVS control. B) The error message indicates that you did not do a "cvs init" and hence the missing admin files. G -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Berry Sent:

RE: [ANNOUNCE] cvs-nserver 1.11.1.1 released

Greg, please don't tell me what I do or do not want. Regards G -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg A. Woods Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:05 AM To: Gianni Mariani Cc: CVS-II Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] cvs-ns

Re: [ANNOUNCE] cvs-nserver 1.11.1.1 released

Alexey, cvs-nserver sounds great. I'd like to see thin kind of authentication support in the base CVS soon. G Chris Garrigues wrote: >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) >> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:20:29 -0400 (EDT) >> >> [ On Thursday, June 14, 2001 at 11:15:55 (-0500), Chris Garr

RE: pserver vs. ssh - performance

ssh is secure - probably a must over the Wild Wild Web - however you can use port forwarding of the pserver port over SSH and get the same. Too many ways to skin the cat. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Howard Zhou Sent: Saturday, May 19

RE: CVS Server

Dear Flame, the cvs binary operates both as a server and a client. Note below a copy of my xinetd file for the pserver ... Flame on. G -- # default: on # description: The cvspserver provides support for cvs network connections \

RE: VARs

This is a shell question - not a CVS question. in a shell variables are expanded in strings with double (") quotes but not expanded in strings with single (') quotes. I suspect you want to do this: cvs commit -m 'Changed initial value of $my_var' Different shells (bash/tcsh/perl?) beh

RE: cvs with xinetd

I use MD5 passwords on my RH7.0 system and CVS 1.11 works fine using unix account authentication in :pserver: mode. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Ajamian Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 7:10 PM To: Larry Jones; Info-CVS Mailing List

RE: cvs with xinetd

TECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:08 PM To: Gianni Mariani Cc: Adam W. Montville; Info-Cvs Subject: Re: cvs with xinetd Gianni Mariani writes: > > env = HOME= Again, it is much better to use: passenv = PATH (plus whatever other environment variable

RE: cvs with xinetd

Adam,   The following is the configuration file I use for xinetd and it works like a charm !   G   -- # default: on# description: The cvspserver provides support for cvs network

RE: cvs prob

Last time I had that problem, the user was using wincvs and had a space character ( ' ' ) in the user name. I actually went to the effort of creating a hook to "strace" cvs when in pserver mode from the inetd file. I think I still have it - it might help let you know what is going on. -O

RE: commit -m "Line One\rLineTwo"

It seems this depends more on your shell than it does cvs. Using tcsh you need to do so: cvs commit -m "foo\ bar" tcsh requires an escape ('\') for each newline withing a quote. On bash you do: cvs commit -m "foo bar"

RE: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

' into each users home directory. Kind regards Peter Ring -Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg A. Woods Sent: Saturday, 31 March, 2001 2:19 AM To: Gianni Mariani Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ? [ On

RE: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

Greg, We heard you already - we just don't agree with you. There is very little point saying the same thing over again. WE (TM) (the philosophical WE) each have our different goals, there is absolutly no reason for them to be the same and MANY reasons for them to be different. Your discuss

RE: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Greg A. Woods > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 4:19 PM > To: Gianni Mariani . . . > Obviously my point did not sink in properly though so I will say it more > clearly: PLEASE go use something else We

RE: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

it is binary) is a dumb thing to do. Thanks G -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg A. Woods Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:52 PM To: Gianni Mariani Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ? [ On Thu

RE: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

ms G -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Helmer Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 10:03 AM To: Gianni Mariani Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cvswrappers - any better suggestions ? Hello, Well, I won't ask why you want ot check any

cvswrappers - any better suggestions ?

I want to kinda set and forget my cvswrappers file. I have a mixed Win/unix dev environment and I want to set and forget which file are binary and which are not. SO - I created the following cvswrappers file (all ~700 extensions) that are most likely binary. I got it by scanning my Win drives