Oops I deleted some files

2004-01-31 Thread Tony Ennis
A few days ago I was cleaning up a project and deleted a directory, commited, etc. Now, about a week later, I refetch the project only to find that the directory and the files within wereimportant. Ooops. How do I get them back? I have tried checking out with the date to no avail. The

What is the proper way to talk to the developers

2003-11-05 Thread Tony Ennis
...and suggest an enhancement. Anyone know how? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

CVS auditing improvement

2003-11-05 Thread Tony Ennis
Recently, we had issues at my company which revolved around CVS branches being forgotten. That is, work was done, but the branches were never merged on to the mainline. While this is a mistake on the developers' part, that is of little comfort to the project manager who is responsible for the

Knowing what happens to branches

2003-10-30 Thread Tony Ennis
We're pretty comfortable with CVS here. We have several projects, but a few are large and sometimes there can be 2 or 3 of us working on different parts at the same time. We each make our own branch from a production tag, do our work, and merge the changes back to another branch (or HEAD,

RE: Branch Merging Behaviour

2003-03-19 Thread Tony Ennis
This happens to us too, most annoying. I have no solution except to avoid checking out old versions of the code. :-P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Cooper Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: Multiple developers in one work area

2000-12-18 Thread Tony Ennis
I've a new CVS user but an old hand at DEC's CMS code management system. The latter was very good about allowing multiple people in one area. CVS isn't so strong there. I think it is because old-tyme Unix hacks tended to be lone programmers working on smaller projects and therefore didn't

Mysterious error

2000-12-12 Thread Tony Ennis
Hello. I am getting the following error message when updating. I have no idea what the problem is. cvs server: Updating .cvs checkout: move away grapevine/docs/graphics/help-terms.gif; it is in the waycvs checkout: move away grapevine/docs/graphics/search.gif; it is in the way Clearly, I