Re: CVS

2001-04-29 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, April 29, peter.goffee did write: Hello, I wonder if you can help me with a sticky CVS question! We've been using CVS for quite a while now under Linux to keep track of changes on one of our main projects, and it is very good. However, one feature we would love to have, but

Question about .cvsignore and deleted files

2001-03-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I've got a question about .cvsignore and previously-deleted files. (This is independent of the other thread discussing possible additions to the default .cvsignore file.) In the module I'm working on, there is a file called productInfo.cc. This file used to be in the CVS

Re: Turning a branch into a new branch

2001-02-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, February 3, Dorthe Luebbert did write: Hi, I have the following scenario: 1. I checked out branch VERSION-A 2. I modified some files locally 3. I want to create from the these files VERSION-B CVS asks me to commit the modified files first. But I would commit them to

Re: Easiest way to move a branch to the trunk

2001-02-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, February 2, Brian J. Murrell did write: I have a project/repository which has a main branch (trunk) for stable, released versions and a development branch. The development branch was branched off of the main branch a while ago for development and has going along gangbusters.

Re: Why CVSREAD?

2001-01-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 24, David L. Martin did write: - Original Message - From: "Richard Cobbe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the CVSREAD variable for? I know what it does, but I was (and remain) hard-pressed to come up with a situation in which this behavior would

Why CVSREAD?

2001-01-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
I recently did a presentation to several of my co-workers on effective CVS use, and got an interesting question. What's the CVSREAD variable for? I know what it does, but I was (and remain) hard-pressed to come up with a situation in which this behavior would be useful. I'm assuming that such

Re: listing symbolic links recursively, with dir listing

2001-01-18 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 18, Hanser, Kevin did write: I've just imported a directory structure into CVS that has a lot of symbolic links in it. I've written a script to restore these links from a file that lists what they are and where they point. However, I'm having trouble finding all

Re: cvs remote: rsh vs. ssh protocols

2000-12-27 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, December 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: We had been using rsh and CVS to remotely update our Web site between two Solaris boxes (staging server to live server) with no problem. Now that we are using shh as opposed to telnet for remote login, rsh does not work in the

Re: SV: Different kind of access methods

2000-12-13 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, December 13, Larry Jones did write: Todd Denniston writes: Don't you have to be careful if someone is doing :local: access but on an nfs/smb/samba mounted CVS repo? (I mention this because I have seen it mentioned many times as a bad thing) Doing :local: access to

RE: SV: Different kind of access methods

2000-12-13 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, December 14, Robert Schott did write: Doing :local: access to an nfs/smb/samba mount repository frequently doesn't work reliably at all, which is why it is discouraged. Why is this? In particular, what sort of problems can one encounter when using this sort

Re: remove a tag

2000-12-08 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 8, Anner Adrian did write: Hello, is it possible to remove a tag that was set? I set a tag, but it was the wrong version now I want remove it and set it again. how can I do this? To borrow a rhetorical trick from someone else on the list,

Suggestions for merging system?

2000-12-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm trying to come up with a better model for managing merges and branches than that which we currently use with our CVS repository at work. First, a brief description of the structure of our working area. We're working on a single software system which consists of a number of