Re: problem in lock and unlocking the files.

2002-04-23 Thread david
, and if somebody else was you'd have CVS merge the changes for you. David H. Thornley| If you want my opinion, ask. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you don't, flee. http://www.thornley.net/~thornley/david/ | O- ___ Info

pserver client and server on same machine

2002-04-22 Thread David Everly
Does using a pserver unix client which access the pserver unix server on the same machine as the client cause any problems other than those which are normally encountered using pserver unix client to access the pserver unix server on a remote machine? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] V-Net: 622-3286

Re: pserver client and server on same machine

2002-04-22 Thread David Everly
No issues beyond the ones documented at: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/ specifically: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC29 On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:55:49PM -0400, Matt Riechers wrote: David Everly wrote: Does using a pserver unix client which access the pserver

keeping one's personal dotfiles under CVS

2002-04-19 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Hello, I was wondering what strategies do CVS gurus use to manage their personal collection of dotfiles. We all a favorite .vimrc, .exrc, .muttrc, ~/.w3m/bookmarks.html, etc. The problem is keeping them in sync on all the machines we use. CVS seems like a nice tool for that. How would you go

Re: CVS - import to 1.1

2002-04-18 Thread David Martin
2, which isn't all that bad for the convenience of it (compared to writing a script to recursively add everything). David ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

option: -D today needed

2002-04-16 Thread david koski
were done with a cvs commit on a cygwin Windows client. Any clues appreciated. David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: rlog: How to get log messages *after* one tag up to another tag

2002-04-15 Thread David Carson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... David Carson writes: I'm sure there is some complication involved, but it is apparently possible. The cvs rdiff -rrevA -rrevB syntax handles this problem correctly, going from revA to revB even if from trunk

rlog: How to get log messages *after* one tag up to another tag

2002-04-12 Thread David Carson
-rrevB syntax handles this problem correctly, going from revA to revB even if from trunk to branch. As long as point A is an ancestor of point B, then there is only one way to get to B from A. Thanks, David ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

RE: unsubscribe

2002-04-10 Thread Daniels, David F
I think the reason is the link found at the bottom of most list messages doesn't provide an obvious and easy way to unsubscribe. Most people are smart enough to unsubscribe themselves if given the opportunity. Dave -Original Message- From: Vishal Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

nit [was RE: Segmentation Fault (was Re: CVS sticky information ignored on import)]

2002-04-09 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
Just a little nit: if you end the line with a | you can drop the \ find . -name Entries | xargs grep /-kb/ \ | sed -e s|CVS/Entries:/|| -e s|/[^/]*/[^/]*/-kb/.*|| \ | xargs cvs -d $CVSROOT admin -kb find . -name Entries | xargs grep /-kb/ | sed -e s|CVS/Entries:/|| -e

Re: Moderation in effect

2002-04-09 Thread David Wheeler
On 4/9/02 4:18 PM, R P Herrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] claimed: -- sure hope it makes a difference. I don't see how it can't! Thanks for doing this, Russ. Regards, David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ

Re: arch

2002-04-08 Thread david
Has anyone taken a look at arch? I saw an announcement about it, but nothing more. It is an improvement over cvs and subversion. Do you have any sort of URL? arch isn't something that lends itself to a Google search, so I don't really know where to find it. David H. Thornley

Re: arch

2002-04-08 Thread david
trust CVS as I can download it today far more than subversion as I can download it today. I will keep an eye on that URL, though. David H. Thornley| If you want my opinion, ask. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you don't, flee. http://www.thornley.net/~thornley

Re: does CVS ever get to revisions like 2.1 or 5.4?

2002-04-05 Thread david
that mean something (i.e., those in a particular release) with tags. David H. Thornley| If you want my opinion, ask. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you don't, flee. http://www.thornley.net/~thornley/david/ | O

RE: CVS and Clearcase

2002-04-04 Thread Daniels, David F
I would say no, this is not possible. To start with, the two tools use different methods of versioning. There are a whole host of other reasons why this is a bad idea. My first question is why do you want to have a duplicated repository? You may be trying to solve the wrong problem. Dave

cvs benchmarks

2002-04-03 Thread Daniels, David F
Can anyone point me to any benchmarks on CVS's performance? Thanks, Dave ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

RE: cvs benchmarks

2002-04-03 Thread Daniels, David F
, David F Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: 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

RE: verify sintax

2002-04-03 Thread Daniels, David F
You can create a script to be added to the commitinfo file which performs the syntax check and exits if it finds an error. Dave -Original Message- From: Moises Zanabria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:49 PM To: cvs questions Subject: verify sintax Hi Guys,

Re: CVS on NT

2002-04-03 Thread david
firewall, I'd recommend a Linux CVS server. Other than that, look at cvsnt.org and see what they have to offer. (They have their own mailing list; you might ask the same question there.) David H. Thornley| If you want my opinion, ask. [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: cvs benchmarks

2002-04-03 Thread Daniels, David F
Gianni, Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Dave -Original Message- From: Gianni Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:02 PM To: Daniels, David F Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: cvs benchmarks To be useful, you need to know how it compares

RE: How do you get off this list???

2002-04-01 Thread Daniels, David F
Have you tried the link at the bottom? There's a form which allows you to put your e-mail address in to unsubscribe. http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs -Original Message- From: Roger Thornblad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: more info on bugzilla and cvs integration

2002-04-01 Thread David Taylor
Shane McDaniel wrote: Just curious if there was a site that detailed bugzilla and cvs integration more than the bugzilla FAQ. CVSZilla at http://homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz/~tonyg dtayl ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to baseline project for subsequent releases

2002-04-01 Thread david
. There's no problem whatsoever in having multiple CVS tags on the same revision. David H. Thornley| If you want my opinion, ask. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you don't, flee. http://www.thornley.net/~thornley/david/ | O

Re: Concern over longevity of a CVS repository

2002-03-26 Thread david
unrestrained growth by default. If, for example, you're logging checkins by writing a line to a log file in editinfo, you need to watch that file. David H. Thornley| If you want my opinion, ask. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you don't, flee. http://www.thornley.net

RE: Trouble using edit -c command

2002-03-22 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
If you don't wanna hassle installing cygwin you can get native unix utilities for NT here (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net) or here (http://www.wzw.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html); I've been using them for a year or so and am quite satisfied. All that is required subject to memory

preventing direct repository changes

2002-03-22 Thread David Everly
Is there some technique I can use to prevent my developers from directly altering the cvs repository and force them to use cvs commands instead? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread David Taylor
Greg A. Woods wrote: If _EVERYONE_ who was concerned about this issue would contact the list administrators directly instead of just posting a meta disussion to the list itself then maybe something would happen. So far as I know there have only been a very tiny percentage of us contacting

RE: Develop on branch or mainline...

2002-03-20 Thread Daniels, David
There are many different ways to approach this problem. You could, for example, create a maintenance branch from your tag at release 1.7. (You did tag your code on release, right?) Or, alternatively, you could release from the 1.7 development branch, merging changes to the mainline and continue

Re: Move away it is in the way

2002-03-19 Thread david
, put something in the script to remove the file). David H. Thornley| If you want my opinion, ask. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you don't, flee. http://www.thornley.net/~thornley/david/ | O- ___ Info-cvs mailing

RE: Windows XP/cygwin problems

2002-03-19 Thread Daniels, David
I'm not sure about cygwin, but have you tried the windows version of the CVS server? It may be what you need... http://www.wincvs.org http://www.wincvs.org -Original Message- From: Michael Labhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Daniels, David
Agreed. We can't seem to get the list managers to take action, though. -Original Message- From: Ryan Speed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:51 PM To: 'cvsInfo' Subject: RE: english text only? It seems to be a trend lately, I'm on a few lists that get spammed

RE:'Ryan Speed' english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
How bout finding another listserver that supports spam filtering? -Original Message- From: Vishal Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:22 AM To: 'Daniels, David'; 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo' Subject: RE: english text only? Guys, how do we control who

RE: CVS-GUI tool

2002-03-15 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
GNU (free) tool http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/ I haven't used it enough to give a review. --@@ ~ DavidC If no information or return is filed, [the] Internal Revenue Service cannot assess you. -- Gary Makovski, Special IRS Agent, testifying under oath in U.S. v. Lloyd www.taxax.org

'cvs log' doesn't show any tags, yet they exist!

2002-03-15 Thread David A. Desrosiers
This is a weird one, and I coulda sworn this worked for me last week. I can no longer run 'cvs log file.c' in my local repository and see a list of the tags that file.c exists within. I was under the impression that 'cvs log' would display tags. What am I doing wrong here? As an aside,

Export or Checkout to directory/subdir

2002-03-15 Thread David Lesle
for any pointers, David Lesle [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: cvs update to branch with -f option

2002-03-15 Thread David Taylor
Bob Bowen wrote: Larry Jones wrote: Branch the entire repository and stop using -f. Branches are cheap, particularly if you never commit anything on them. And by branching everything, you can branch wherever you want to get particular revisions of certain files (e.g., at a

dual repositories - please give me your thoughts

2002-03-14 Thread Daniels, David
Someone has proposed a CVS setup to me which I would very much like comments on. In this proposed system, there would be two CVS repositories. The first would be open to the development staff and would be for general use. The second would be an rsynced version of the first and would be for

RE: Structure of CVS Repository

2002-03-14 Thread Daniels, David
If you haven't yet, you might check out the Tomcat documentation. They have a fairly utilitarian approach. http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/appdev/source.html Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:51

RE: CVS-GUI tool

2002-03-14 Thread Daniels, David
Try Beyond Compare from Scooter Software. IMHO is the best diff tool out there. http://www.scootersoftware.com/ Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVS-GUI tool Hi, Is there

Re: Determining which files have changed from one set of tagged files to another

2002-03-13 Thread David Taylor
Rob Helmer wrote: Anyone know how to get output like : cvs rdiff -s -r tag1 -r tag2 modulename except with commit msgs for every revision that falls between tag1 and tag2? I could use the output of the above command and cvs log to do this for me ( I just want this for info between

RE: OFF-TOPIC: Spam on the CVS mailing lists

2002-03-12 Thread Daniels, David
Agreed. This is about a 30-sec admin change which will make all the difference in the world. No reason we should have to put up with garbage. Dave -Original Message- From: Brian Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-12 Thread Daniels, David
recommend as the right tool for the job? I am faced with a similar problem, although have not resorted to David Clunie's solution as yet. Can you be more specific about why CVS is the wrong tool for this in your opinion? Thanks.. -Stuart- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: Newbie: nonsensical documentation

2002-03-11 Thread Daniels, David
With this attitude, you're bound to get lots of help. If this is the first time you're checking out the module, make sure you've deleted the import directory. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: avoid ^M when committing to Unix based repository

2002-03-11 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
I'd recomend vim - it can be used on both windoze unix www.vim.org Let the editor war begin :-) -Original Message- From: Stephen Leake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: avoid ^M when committing to Unix based

Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository?Why or why not

2002-03-10 Thread David Clunie
to have several TB of images stored in this system and I will let you know if and when CVS becomes a problem. david PS. I also store jar files and complete tar'd up releases and all sorts of other things in CVS so I guess I am just a heretic. ___ Info

Re: Abandoned CVS server processes

2002-03-08 Thread David Fuller
. Would you suggest the latest and greatest development version? -- David F. On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Larry Jones wrote: Dan Peterson writes: 2. Two processes; the first has a parent of inet and it's child seems to be spinning and using lots of CPU (after about 34 hours one process has

RE: locked files, how to handle

2002-03-08 Thread Daniels, David
Maybe, but that still doesn't answer his question. I actually would be interested in people's thoughts on that as well. Dave -Original Message- From: Noel Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 8:13 AM To: Georg Wilckens; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: locked files,

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-07 Thread Thornley, David
), Thornley, David wrote: ] Subject: RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository?Why or why not I still fail to understand the problem. What's to UNDERSTAND? CVS manages source files which are diffable and patchable. Other things manage other kinds of files

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-06 Thread Daniels, David
Just a quick side note: MSWord includes a diff tool. And IIRC, ClearCase even uses it if you compare two versions of the same word file... Where do I find it? Dave ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-06 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [ On Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at 21:52:00 (GMT), Richard Caley wrote: ] I know it (even processsed them a couple of times), but it's irrelevent. Storing as diffs is just an optimisation, not a necessary

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-06 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:58 PM To: Thornley, David Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not [ On Wednesday, March 6, 2002

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-06 Thread Daniels, David
The same factors which makes (sane) files formats undiffable make them the data stored in them unlikely to be edited in parallel. Of all the incorrect things you've said, that's the most incorrect. Seems to make sense to my. What's incorrect about it?

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-05 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:02 PM To: Christian Andersson Cc: CVS-II Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not Good one, I use

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-05 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
With CVS and non-diff-able, non-patch-able files we're talking about using a tool that's not even remotely suitable for the job at hand. We're not talking about something which happens to have a narrow flat part on the end of a handle and which just happens to more or less fit in the slot

RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

2002-03-04 Thread Daniels, David
You can, but I don't think it's necessary. Assuming the jar contains the class files created from .java files in the same repository, ideally what you'd like to do is mark the java files used to create the jar with a tag and then build the jar with ant or some other make tool. If you need to go

Re: Major cvs surgery, need suggestions

2002-03-02 Thread David A. Desrosiers
They are merely sequential counters of revisions stored in the RCS files. If you need to remember any given point in the revision history of a file, or of all the files in a module, then you really must use tags and tags alone. I was under the impression that the revision numbers

Re: spam on this list

2002-03-02 Thread David A. Desrosiers
To the owner of this list: I suggest that the list is closed to the subscribers only. Quite a lot of spam is being sent there. What do you think ? I suggest they use ordb.org to lock out the spam from open relays. Most of the messages I've seen here as spam in the past few months

Re: Major cvs surgery, need suggestions

2002-03-01 Thread David A. Desrosiers
foo.c in the top level is 1.46, but when moved and added, it gets version 1.1 (logically). How do I preserve the history of the changes made to this file to date, so I can do a 'cvs log' on it and get the full changes? You can't. The best you can do is mv foo.c src/foo.c cvs add

RE: Adding an existing file to a branch

2002-02-28 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Jake Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adding an existing file to a branch I have somes files that already exist in the trunk and in a few branches. I now need to bring those

branch merging tactics (lock repository or not?)

2002-02-28 Thread David Everly
We currently have 3 active development branches as well as our trunk. Our trunk holds our next major release. Branches A, B, and C hold our next three major releases (in that order). About once a week, we merge the incremental changes (since the last merge) from the trunk, to branch A, then

Re: branch merging tactics (lock repository or not?)

2002-02-28 Thread David Everly
How do I commit a large number of changes (generated by a merge) to the branch I'm merging to when there are several commits to that branch while I'm in the process of merging? And if I do update before commiting the merge (to bring in the new changes so that I'm allowed to check in) is there a

Re: branch merging tactics (lock repository or not?)

2002-02-28 Thread David Everly
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:22:13PM -0800, Paul Sander wrote: In other words, others have committed to your target branch before you finished resolving conflicts and committed your work, right? Yes. What exactly do you want to do in that situation? Do you want to update to the top of the

Re: Date of tag,branch

2002-02-28 Thread David Taylor
Wolfgang Pröpper wrote: No, there is no chance to get the date of a tag. cvs history -T, when history logging is enabled, returns dates of all rtag operations. Using rtag -r to tag a specific version gets around the indeterminancy of rtag. Details (very murky) at

Major cvs surgery, need suggestions

2002-02-28 Thread David A. Desrosiers
I'm in the process of making a release of a pretty popular GNU package, and need to restructure the directories in the package itself a bit. Basically the toplevel directory has accumulated some source files (*.c, *.cc) and there are some other changes, but my question is this.. As I

RE: Compiling CVS on Windows 2000

2002-02-27 Thread Daniels, David
Why don't you use the Windows version? http://www.cvsnt.org/ Dave -Original Message- From: Jari Heikkinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Compiling CVS on Windows 2000 Hi, I have used several hours today trying to

OT RE: CVS Update Behaviour

2002-02-27 Thread Daniels, David
While this conversation has been entertaining, I think it's time to take it off-list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour [ On

RE: CVS newbie seeks advice on tag management

2002-02-27 Thread Daniels, David
4)Next- develop the Live-02 scripts, test, run at client. When ready to tag: cvs tag Live-02 010-add_menu_options.sql 020-create_table.sql 030-alter_stored_proc.sql 040-delete_old_menus.sql This is where I'm having problems. I create the new files but cannot add them to the repository.

RE: Software Position

2002-02-27 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software Position Dan Twyman writes: I found your organization while searching the internet for

RE: refactoring when using CVS

2002-02-26 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:23 AM To: Mark A. Flacy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: refactoring when using CVS [ On , February 26, 2002 at 01:57:19 (-0600), Mark A. Flacy wrote: ] Subject: Re:

RE: CVS Update Behaviour

2002-02-25 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [ On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 00:17:58 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour Renames are not usually a requirement of maintenance, but they are a requirement of new

RE: questions on CVS, WinCVS

2002-02-25 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [ On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:06:40 (+0300), Leonid Krutyansky wrote: ] I have WinCVS 1.2 client , CVSNT 1.11.1.2(41) server and run pserver protocol. Oh, that's too bad. You should think about

Re: ANN: cvssh - secure ext-to-pserver bridge

2002-02-22 Thread David A. Desrosiers
You must only sync it in the other direction -- i.e. update the read-only server _from_ the master! Great, then once again, you make absolutely no sense. If I have a copy of the master, which allows anonymous read-only access, and that copy also accepts authenticated commits

RE: refactoring when using CVS

2002-02-22 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:09 PM To: Noel Yap Cc: CVS-II Discussion Mailing List Subject: RE: refactoring when using CVS [ On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 07:12:39 (-0800), Noel Yap wrote: ]

RE: Locks

2002-02-21 Thread Thornley, David
. thanx -js [Thornley, David] If you're asking for such a pointer,go to http://www.cvsnt.org and check out what they've got there.There is apparently a mailing list forCVSNT, and you'dget a lot more help there than here.

RE: refactoring when using CVS

2002-02-21 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Noel Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Refactoring in C could just as easily leave you with a whole lot of deleted files and a whole lot of new files. The difference is that as a language, C doesn't demand such changes (ie renames and moves), while

RE: CVS client on a Mac OS 9

2002-02-21 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Pham, Khiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVS client on a Mac OS 9 Hi anyone, I have a setup question if anyone can help me. I have CVS running on NT server with ntserver

Re: ANN: cvssh - secure ext-to-pserver bridge

2002-02-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
Duh. If you're doing authentication and authorisation on a unix-based file server then you MUST, _M_U_S_T_ use a unique system account for ever real-world user or else you might as well not use any authentication whatsoever. Pserver has NO accountability from the system's point of view.

Re: ANN: cvssh - secure ext-to-pserver bridge

2002-02-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
I would suggest you and your users just learn to use SSH and forget about trying to implement any security software yourself. If you already have real unix user-ids for every real user then you're most of the way to making it work properly -- why not go all the way? I'm intrigued.

RE: refactoring when using CVS

2002-02-21 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Noel Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] AFAIK, XP promotes Refactor early, refactor often. If so, and given Greg's premise that refactorisation should be rare and well-thought-out, then CVS isn't good for within an XP environment. No, it doesn't mean that.

RE: refactoring when using CVS

2002-02-21 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Noel Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Other than theoretical attacks found by acadamecians (that I think were later fixed) and possibly holes within Visual J++, I haven't heard of any insecurities, can you point me to a site, please? In the US, under the

Re: CVS Update Behaviour

2002-02-21 Thread David Fuller
this behavior. -- David F. Colm Murphy wrote: Hi folks, In our development flow we frequently have the situation where a developer is only using a small number of the files in a given directory. This is setup by defining a module to contain only certain files. All is fine until the developer

Re: CVS client on a Mac OS 9

2002-02-21 Thread David Fuller
Last time I checked Mac and NT didn't mix well. I'd suggest not using NT server. Pham, Khiem wrote: Hi anyone, I have a setup question if anyone can help me. I have CVS running on NT server with ntserver authentication, so you do not need to log in from a CVS client. I have CVS clients

Re: ANN: cvssh - secure ext-to-pserver bridge

2002-02-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
There's only _EXACTLY_ one case where cvspserver is in any way more secure than giving out real accounts, and that's when pserver is used to give read-only anonymous access to a _copy_ of a repository. And if the copy needs to get sync'd back to the real repository (a definate

Re: ANN: cvssh - secure ext-to-pserver bridge

2002-02-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
There have been lots of descriptions of how to do this posted to this list in the past. I suggest you research groups.google.com and/or www.geocrawler.com. Descriptions, with absolutely no working solution. Do you get the full depth of a book by reading just the 'Foreward'? I have

preventing tag changes in project

2002-02-20 Thread David Everly
In my cvs project, I want tags to never change once they are applied. However, after adding new files, if someone applies a tag that has already been used to the project, the tag is applied to the new files. How can I prevent this? ___ Info-cvs mailing

RE: Converting ClearCase to CVS

2002-02-20 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:04:54PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: You either chose the wrong tool for your requirements, or you chose to use it in a way that it was not designed to be used. Geez, that's just

RE: multiple cvs clients operating on same working directory

2002-02-19 Thread Daniels, David
Sure, why not? I safely use WinCVS, command-line cvs and Turtle on the same directories. -Original Message- From: Stephan Feder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: multiple cvs clients operating on same working directory

RE: Converting ClearCase to CVS

2002-02-19 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Converting ClearCase to CVS Starting to get off-topic and long-winded, but I can't let this go. Sorry!

RE: point of fork

2002-02-19 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Alex Wiesmaier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 7:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: point of fork hi i have several branches in my cvs. now i have to tag a version at which a certain branch was forked from the main

Re: multiple cvs clients operating on same working directory

2002-02-19 Thread David Fuller
Are you talking clients as in software, or clients as in people? If people then it is a bad idea, if software then it doesn't matter. On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Stephan Feder wrote: Hello, is it safe to run multiple cvs clients that operate on the same working directory (for example one does a

Re: multiple cvs clients operating on same working directory

2002-02-19 Thread David Fuller
What condition could you be in where you would be running those two commands concurrently? On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Stephan Feder wrote: Sorry, perhaps I did not state my question correctly so maybe the following example clarifies what I want to know: Suppose I invoke cvs update and cvs commit

Re: Repository file with inexplicable branch revisions

2002-02-19 Thread David Fuller
I would strongly discourage anyone from using the import command on files where you intend to be doing development. The files can be repaired manually with a good text editor, but I would discourage that as well unless you really know what you are doing. On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Doyle, Jim wrote:

Re: Any way to checkout subdirectories inside the module withoutcrea ting the whole structure for working copy?

2002-02-19 Thread David Fuller
You can do this in the modules file. Example: sub_dir_mod module/sub/directory On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Datla, Raghav wrote: Hi, I have a repository on Unix server and developers are using cvs client (pserver method) on their sandboxes (Unix and Windows) to check out the directories/files

RE: [WINCVS 1.2]cvs login

2002-02-18 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
I had the same problem, although I'm using the .rhosts method. There is a file on your client machine named Root in the CVS dir under the dir you are using as working dir. Press F2 (in wincvs) and an explorer window will pop up, pointing to the CVS dir. The file Root has the path to the

RE: VSS to CVS

2002-02-18 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
If you want non-cygwin versions of rm chmod see: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ From the readme (http://www.laine.org:8080/cvs/vss2cvs/ReadMe.txt): *Don't* install cygwin's cvs.exe, though, unless you like specifying your CVSROOT as, eg, :local:/cygdrive/f/cvsroot, instead of

RE: Converting ClearCase to CVS

2002-02-18 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [ On Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 12:42:57 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: Converting ClearCase to CVS You get what you pay for. In my opinion, the quality of implementation of ClearCase

Re: cvs [commit aborted]:

2002-02-16 Thread David Hoag
Since switching to the latest CVS development code base, I now get different results: $ cvs -t update build.xml cvs update: notice: main loop with [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/space/cvsroot - Starting server: ssh xx.xx.xx.xx -l dhoag cvs server S- Reader_Lock(/space/cvsroot/build) S- Lock_Cleanup() I've

checking out to remote working directory

2002-02-16 Thread Aden, David
.) The environment is NT. We could have the developers map a drive from the remote developer's machine to the working dir but I would like to avoid that pain over the Internet. is there anyway to specify a different working dir to check files out to other than the "current directory"? david

xml in excel [was RE: using files with .xls and .doc in CVS]

2002-02-15 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
This probably is not the best argument for people who wish to store binaries in CVS, though. In my case, I would *love* to not have .xls or .doc files in my repository. So far, the farthest I've pushed is to get people off .xls and onto .xml ( w/ custom schema/stylesheets ). I'm

Re: cvs [commit aborted]:

2002-02-15 Thread David Hoag
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Manually killing a server process will cause a connection reset error at the client. If you don't kill the server process, do you still get the client error and, if so, is the server process still running afterwards

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