ally generating the man page from the manual's texinfo
source would be a good one.
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ting partial
> updates, but based on the cvs documentation (see below) I'm not sure if this
> will happen. Can someone clarify this?
It certainly would be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn't.
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> Is there an e-mail address for reporting bugs?
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local mode but none of them work with absolute paths in client/server
mode.
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branch/tag and inital release tag. They only take
a trivial amount of space in the repository, just ignore them.
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aces of it. If
you have committed changes on the branch, however, they will still
exist. CVS doesn't provide any easy method of deleting them, you have
to find them and delete them (``cvs admin -o'') by hand. Permanently
removing things from the repository is anathema to revision contro
the branch twice on
some of the files due to the nested modules. The first time it works,
the second time you get the "branch already exists" error. Since you
only want the branch created once, you can ignore the error message. :-)
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ally
seeing something else, it's due to some kind of local modification.
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currently exist at the head of the *trunk*. When you checkout or update
a branch, CVS looks in the Attic, too, so everything should work fine.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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"Fouts Christopher (6452)" writes:
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> First rename branchA to branchX
>
> > cvs tag -r branchA branchX
That doesn't rename the branch, it tags the head revision on the branch.
To rename a branch you have to use cvs admin -n.
-Larry Jones
Nobody knows how t
es that exist on
branchA that have never existed on branchB and you'll get conflicts for
files that were independently created on both branches. It is a good
start, though, and may do the whole job if you're lucky.
-Larry Jones
My dreams are getting
Alexander von Below writes:
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> Upon commit, I want to export the files in the repository to a location.
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_18.html#SEC173>
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ne endings on Unix platforms, Windows
line endings on Windows platforms.
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> But, isn't that option only about "checkouts", what about check-ins
It affects both.
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r mode, a lot of infrastructure would be required to support
local time display and no one has felt compelled to do the work.
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It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.
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Mark D. Baushke writes:
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> ISO 8601 format "-dd-mm hh:mm:ss -"
You've got the mm and dd swapped, it's "-mm-dd hh:mm:ss -".
-Larry Jones
The hardest part for us avant-garde post-modern artists is
deciding whether or not
runk is the default branch so
you don't need to do anything special to get it.
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Sandhya writes:
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> Have started to be the admin of cvs for for the past 1 month. Just wanted to know
> how to give read-
> write access on a folder level in cvs.
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_2.html#SEC13>
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I sure like summer v
Andy Jones writes [in very long lines]:
>
> No, no. I don't want to remove the files. I just want to not tag
> them. Now it looks like I will have to tag the whole sandbox and then
> untag a list of about 30 files - not fun.
cvs tag foo *
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cvs up -j1.7 -j1.6 foo
cvs ci -m'back out changes from 1.7' foo
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> When a user creates a tag, is there any means by which other users cannot update the
> tag.
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_18.html#SEC175>
-Larry Jones
That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so
ba
ng a GUI CVS client ,
> TortoiseCVS. I would like to hear from my friends who might be using such
> a setup. Any information, alternatives would be appreciated very much.
Standard (command line) CVS has no proxy support. You'll have to ask
the TortoiseCVS folks if they do.
-Larry Jones
ranch from a project
Why do you want to do that? The whole point of a revision control
system is to preserve history, so you usually don't want to really
remove anything.
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1.10.8 is ancient, the current stable release is 1.11.14! You really
should upgrade.
You need to use a numerical month rather than an alphabetical one:
"2004-04-01 11:00:00 EST". Or, even easier, just use "now".
-Larry Jone
Conrad T. Pino writes:
>
> Also consider cvs will use repositories identified by symbolic links and
Unless you're using LockDir= in your $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/config file, in
which case using symlinks will circumvent the locking and corrupt your
repository.
-Larry Jones
I don't see
e
cvs rtag -r b_REL -b b_DEV_JS sample
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work the same way for all commands. Exactly how to do it is an open
issue.
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If I was being raised in a better environment, I wouldn't
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sly wrong with your inetd.conf or services
file, check your syslog for error messages from inetd, try restarting
inetd again, or run inetd with debugging enabled.
-Larry Jones
It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.
-- Calvin
tag or a time?
I think that's where we got stuck the last time we danced around this
issue.
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on the inetd.conf line should be "cvspserver" to match
what's in /etc/services, the very last thing on the line should be
"pserver" which is the CVS command to run.
Like I said, if inetd is still complaining about "cvspserver" being an
unknown service, then yo
Derek Robert Price writes:
>
> Perhaps the best thing to do would be to switch the
> delimiter in the log spec (the colons in `-r myfirsttag::mysecondtag')
> to `!' or `+' or whatever.
Interestingly enough, I note that RCS (rlog) uses "-", any idea why C
ns
and ownership of the CVS subdirectory and the files in it. If the
later, then I'm guessing that your working directory is on some kind of
a network filesystem (e.g., Samba) whose permission model doesn't match
what CVS expects.
-Larry Jones
Santa's gonna sk
problem?
The "correct" major revision number is whatever CVS chooses to assign --
revision numbers are for CVS's internal use, you should not care what
they are. Use tags if you want meaningful information.
-Larry Jones
He just doesn't want to face up
issions are intact, the network login is the local administartor -
> to be more sure that this should not be the reason.
Then your Windows system/network is flaky. This is an OS problem, not a
CVS problem.
-Larry Jones
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> Just to make sure can the size of the codebase (say nearly 4.2GB) I am
> getting be an issue, assuming my sys / network is fine.
The size of the codebase would not cause permission problems.
-Larry Jones
I like maxims that don&#
Derek Robert Price writes:
>
> I don't have access to any working web proxies myself, so I could only
> test that the parser works correctly. If anyone with access to a web
> proxy would care to test it, I would appreciate feedback.
Works fine for me!
-Larry Jones
Even if
e.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_21.html#SEC185>
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> WINCVS?
You can certainly do it from the command line, I don't know whether
there's a GUIer way of doing it or not.
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You have to check out a module before you can add files to it. Please
read the manual:
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/>
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>
>Fatal Error, aborting
>cvs: no such user
You're mapping your CVS username to the system user "cvs" in the
CVSROOT/passwd file, but there is no system user "cvs".
-Larry Jones
It's clear I'll never have a career in
e the material from your
> computer. Thank you for your understanding & co-operation.
Such disclaimers are silly on messages sent to public mailing lists.
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the second does not.
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> I now do a "cvs -nq update -j HEAD -j b_dev proj" (-nq just to see if it
> works) and I get
>
> cvs server: file1.cpp: No such file or directory
Checkout and update don't work right with the global -n option,
parti
ignore the revision numbers, they're for CVS's use, not
yours.
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ord that
indicates the default branch (if blank, the default branch is the
trunk). When you checkout without specifying a particular revision, you
get the most recent revision on the default branch. Newly imported
files have the default branch set to the vendor branch, locally modified
files have the de
t currently
under CVS control and that are implied (by being in a directory that's
being processed). Such files are usually noted with a "?" status --
when included in the ignore list they are silent ignored instead.
-Larry Jones
Some people just don't ha
hich would be a waste of time and space), they only exist on the
vendor branch. Since doing a normal checkout should get you the most
recent revision of each file, files that have not been locally modified
*have* to come from the vendor branch in the general case.
-Larry Jones
That&#x
o complete
ignore it. You can even delete the tags if it offends you so much. For
that matter, you can use cvs admin to switch the default branch to the
trunk and remove the revisions on the vendor branch if you really want
to remove all traces of it. But there's no good reason to -- just
sion numbers: they're for CVS, not you.
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ical form. The best way to fix that is to get a
correct client and force a commit of all the files, then stop using the
incorrect client.
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My "C-" firmly establishes me on the cutting edge of the avant-garde.
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> My client is the standard Unix cvs command line tool (1.11.15), what
> would be the "correct" client?
One for a platform that use as a line terminator (Macintosh?).
-Larry Jones
Santa's gonna skip this bl
install Cygwin "correctly" (i.e.,
using Windows line endings rather than Unix line endings).
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> How can i make CVS always ignore files with some extensions (ex: *.exe)
> during commit and import even if the client issue a "cvs import -I !"
> command ?
You can't. (Unless you want to rewrite it, of course.)
-Larry Jones
Th
directory involved
in a commit. You might want to take a look at the comit_prep and
log_accum scripts in the contrib directory for some ideas about how to
do things just once per commit instead of once per directory.
-Larry Jones
It's either spectacular, unbelievable success, or crushing,
line calls?
Yes, but the command line is just whatever is in your inetd.conf
(something like "cvs -f --allow-root=/usr/CVS pserver") -- the actual
command and its options are sent in the client/server protocol, not on
the command line, so your scheme won't work.
-Larry Jones
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/>
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see the results(we have 2 branch tags on a repository), but
> sometimes, it says "No records selected"
>
> This is happening to some users; some users can see the list of tags,
> some others get the above message.
If you just use -T, you only see your own records. You have to
-j merge-from -j merge-to module
The problem is that you're tagging the wrong things. "merge-from"
should be the revision (on the trunk) just before the changes you want
to merge and "merge-to" should be the revision (also on the trunk) the
contains all of the changes
x27;s likely not a cvs problem.
Indeed, the short answer is, "because that's what diff3 does". For more
information about diff3, see the GNU Diffutils manual:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/diff.html>
-L
ay it works. In client/server mode, the client doesn't
send the timestamp to the server so the server can't very well put it in
the output.
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enough for it to actually work well.
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> -Original Message-
Please create a new message for new topics rather than replying to a
completely unrelated message. And for heaven's sake, don't include the
whole blessed digest!
-Larry Jones
I won't eat
Frederic Brehm writes:
>
> Could another cause be a server clock that is two seconds ahead of the
> client?
No.
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I like Mom to be impressed when I fulfill the least of my obligations.
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t; But it doesn't mention setting the merge method. Isn't this important when
> specifying that a file is binary? So wouldn't a more correct example be:
> *.gif -k 'b' -m COPY
Read the manual -- binary implies copy (and can't be overridden) so
there's no n
ied
[...]
> Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
I'd have thought that was fairly obvious -- the ownership and/or
permissions of the repository files weren't maintained by whatever
method you used to move them.
-Larry Jones
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their liv
and
>
> remote$ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/newrepos
> login
>
> Is the path, /usr/local/newrepos, referring to the CVS repository
> directory?
Yes. What the client specifies must exactly match one of the
--allow-root options given to the server in the inet
Tyler writes:
>
> The problem is that if a file doesn't exist on $BRANCH (like it was
> added to the trunk sometime after the branch was cut), cvs log returns
> that file's entire history.
You need to update your (server) CVS -- that bug was fixed long ago.
-Larry Jones
M
ed -S. Without it, you get the header for every file,
reguardless of whether you've selected any revisions or not. -S
suppresses the header when there are no selected revisions.
-Larry Jones
I never get to do anything fun. -- Calvin
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Sensei writes:
>
> I'm trying to do this, but anonymous can't get a lock over the cvs
> repository, since it doesn't belong to the cvs group.
That's what LockDir= is for in CVSROOT/config:
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.15/cvs_18.html#S
Marcelo Carvalho Fernandes writes:
>
> "cvs watch add" doesn't work under pserver ?
> I'm getting the message "unknown command: watch_add".
That bug was fixed long ago -- you need to upgrade the server.
-Larry Jones
These findings sugges
! as default argument for ignore?
Because you usually *don't* want to import executables, zip files, etc.
into your *source* control system.
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ular instance, there are lots
of very similar problems that can't be solved without it and it's very
hard to create after the fact. For example, if you want to see the
actual changes or merge them, or if you wanted to see just part of the
branch rather than the whole branch, you would ne
ry' command?
-p asks for records where the "repos" field *starts* with the specified
string. -m asks for a module history report, -n specifies a module name
for other kinds of reports, but it looks to me like neither one is
completely implemented.
-Larry Jones
What a stupid wor
in that
directory unless you specifically override it by using the -d global
option (that lets you work with multiple repositories without having to
change $CVSROOT all the time). So, your problem appears to be that
what's recorded in CVS/Root is not correct.
-Larry Jones
Oh, now
s hoping the 'cvs -q log -rPROD_BRANCH:: -R' would list what I want.
cvs -q log -SR -rPROD_BRANCH
-Larry Jones
Why is it you always rip your pants on the day everyone has to
demonstrate a math problem at the chalkboard? -- Calvin
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It's a hold-over from RCS. RCS files being used by CVS should always
have it enabled (that's how CVS creates them, but files that were
originally used with RCS and then moved into CVS might not).
-Larry Jones
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> After looking though the ChangeLogs etc, I was wondering if there is a list
> of "behavior" changes from version to version.
I think you'll find NEWS to be of more value than the ChangeLogs.
-Larry Jones
It's a Doofus Ignoramus! Our her
working directories and do new
checkouts.
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lutely anyone to commit
changes whilst claiming to be anyone else they like. Only privileged
users can change their UID, but anyone can set environment variables.
If you really need multiple users with a single system ID, I suggest you
look into running pserver over an SSH tu
0, in
which case it tries to find the real username by calling getlogin().
Only if that fails does it resort to checking $LOGNAME and $USER.)
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t as anyone else without requiring any
authorization whatsoever. You can complain that pserver's authorization
isn't very secure, but at least it exists.
-Larry Jones
I always send Grandma a thank-you note right away. ...Ever since she
sent me that empty box with the sarcastic note saying s
s (just
like a commit to the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT directory does), so if the
administrative files ever get out of sync with the repository, it's an
easy way to get them back in sync.
-Larry Jones
My upbringing is filled with inconsistent messages. -- Calvin
Hon Seng Phuah writes:
>
> After checking a text file from remote server, I want the CVS
> automatically check out the text file to a specified directory (on the
> server disk drive).
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.15/cvs_18.html#SEC173>
-Larry Jones
I
vikas arora writes:
>
> Adding to it, is there a way out to unlock a specific file by a person other
> then the person who has actually locked it.
Yes, you just have to explicitly specify the revision to unlock if
you're not the locker.
-Larry Jones
I always have to help Dad
ision control
system! When you "remove" a file, CVS doesn't remove it from the
repository, it just moves it into a less conspicuous location (the
"Attic") and adds a "dead" revision (so that it knows that the file
should not be created if someone refers to that p
es on the branch. So, until you actually
commit changes on the branch, the head of the branch is the revision you
branched from.
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ision numbers
(which you should be doing anyway) and everything will be fine.
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e argument to the -m
> flag of import?
That is a shell question, not a CVS question. For reasonable shells,
all you have to do is quote the string:
cvs import -m"This is
a multiline
message" mymod vend rel
-Larry Jones
Something COULD happen today. And if any
like you really want to compare the
head of the branch with the root of the branch. One approach is:
cvs log -RS -rbranch
If you tagged the root before you created the branch (which you always
should), you can also do:
cvs diff --brief -rbranch-root -rbranch
or whatever other op
t; > desirable. If you find bugs, feel free to send patches...
>
> I am getting a bit surprised right now... I thought these commands are of
> crucial value for environments where many people work on one and the same
> repository...
No, they're a sop to people who don't
ave been to make the change one place or the other, merge the
change to the other place, and remember the merge point. When you then
did a later merge (from that merge point rather than from the common
ancestor), you would get the conflict you expect.
-Larry Jones
I won't eat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> This sounds like a bug to me since cvs -nq update is
> a valid command.
It is, and it's a long-standing one (because it's not easy to fix).
Checkout has a similar problem.
-Larry Jones
I hate it when they look at me
2:
> Create two repositories, one on each center, and use replication. In this case,
> the replication has to be smart in order to prevent data losses. We need merging
> and conflict management.
CVS was never designed to operate in this manner. It does not provide
any facilities for repository re
;testing ci"
>
> ...produces no output.
Did the commit actually commit a new revision of the file? If the file
hasn't been changed, commit doesn't do anything unless you use the -f
flag to force a commit.
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