Re: CVS Newbie

Some reading material for this... Using CVS to manage a web site (Linux). This page has other good links too: http://www.kegel.com/cvsadmin.html CVS and the web: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/infoweb.html If you use apache: http://www.sub.nu/mod_cvs/guide.shtml CVS Version Control for Web Site

Problems with commitinfo and taginfo scripts

I had commitinfo and taginfo scripts running fine for months, but they just started acting strangely. When certain checks are complete, I "exit 0" for success and "exit 1" for failure. However, when I do a "cvs commit" now, even when "exit 0" takes place, the commit seems to work, but I receive t

Re: Disabling -n option to commit/rtag

I definintely can trust the developers, and would do that, but unfortunately some of the IDE's use the -n option on their own sometimes. My specific example is Jalindi Igloo, which we are using with MS Visual C++. It is a great tool, but sometimes it uses the -n optionthus bypassing my scrip

Re: Disabling -n option to commit/rtag

Ouch. All I want to do is ensure that commitinfo is run for every commit, and that taginfo is run for every tag. There is no way to ensure this (since a client using -n forces ignore of these files)? Thanks again George ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EM

Re: Migrating from VSS to CVS..

This link has a perl script that can help you get from vss into cvs: http://www.laine.org:8080/cvs/vss2cvs/ "uj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi, > > Can any body having experience on how to migrate from vss to cvs. > > Right now we are in VSS. > > CVS reposi

Disabling -n option to commit/rtag

According to the manual, the -n option can be specified in a commit, rtag, export or checkout command, to avoid running ant checkout/commit/tag programs. As a CVS administrator, how can I completely disable use of this option, or otherwise ensure that the these programs are -always- run? I am us

Re: Restricting access to certain modules in a repository

Thanks Larry, excellent answers as usual. I will discuss further with the Tech ops folks ;) And the userid suggestion will work no matter what happens... George "Larry Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].; > Schlitz writes: > > > >

Restricting access to certain modules in a repository

I am using pserver to authenticate users that don't have system accounts on the server machine. I have all modules in a single repository. I want some of these modules not to be available at all (not even check out permission) to some users. I have a basic system 'cvsuser' user that is used in t

Re: Why does CVS COPY a file (binary) to tag it? Can this be overridden?

Dumb ignorant newbie question:   If I have a 1 MB binary in CVS , and I only apply a tag to it- making no changes, not commiting it or anything, does CVS store a whole new copy just because of the tag, or is that just a temporary copy and replace of the original?  (in other words, does simply

Re: taginfo script command line arguments

My apologies. I was debugging my taginfo script by re-applying a tag :) Sorry, and thangks for the help- again... "Larry Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Schlitz writes: > > > > I am using the taginfo file to identify a s

taginfo script command line arguments

I am using the taginfo file to identify a script to run when anyone tags a file in the repository. Arguments passed to this script should be: 1) CVS User Name of person attempting tag (this is specified in the taginfo file) 2) name of tag being applied 3) operation ('add' for tag, 'm

General newbie question about configuration control of items external to (but required by) projects

I was wondering if anyone with experience in CM using CVS could share opinions/tips/"best practices" on storing the following in version control: -App Servers -Compilers -JDK and other language distributions... -other 3rd party apps/etc... For these, is it a good idea to just have some versioned

RE: Using password file for pserver user authentication

Thanks Larry and Jeff, I learned some from both of your responses, and will definitely be using aspects of both responses. For this particular problem, the following seems to give me exactly what I need: I have only one unix account: cvsuser... In CVSROOT/passwd: user1::cvsuser user2::cvsuser use

Using password file for pserver user authentication

I am using the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file to store login information for many users who don't have user accounts on the unix server. Here are some examples: user1:rFw.zb2Ewn6..:cvsuser user2:Mb3Czoc1zMBrU:cvsuser user3:Mb3Czoc1zMBrU:cvsuser I am using several administrative files (taginfo, com

Re: TCL and WINCVS

There is a file called "DocMacros.txt" that gives basic instructions. It can be found in the macros subdirectory of WinCvs, along with the standard macros .tcl files. If you need more help on the Tcl front, the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup is probably the most helpful and friendly newsgroup I've seen

Ill effects of heavy use of tags?

Newbie question: I am implementing CVS on several projects, and was wondering if there are any common problems (performance, etc.) associated with heavy use of tags? It would be very possible in this implementation for individual file versions to have 0 to many tags- should I be concerned with an