cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied

2005-07-11 Thread Boris Landa
Title: cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied Hello Colleagues, Its my second posting on the same issue. I am relatively new to CVS and I would really appreciate if somebody could help me to understand the root cause of the problem. I am using CVS version 1.11.17 for both

Re: cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied

2005-07-11 Thread Todd Denniston
is in Oregon. My client is in California. It runs on a PC under Windows XP using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.13(0.122/4/2) 2005-03-01 11:01. CVS works fine for me. However, every time I do a check in I get an additional error message: cvs server: cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied SNIP

cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied

2005-06-24 Thread Boris Landa
server: cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied Every time I do a cvs update it works but every directory has an additional error message: cvs update: cannot open /nonexistant/.cvsignore: Permission denied I looked into my directories. File .cvsignore is present everywhere. Its

Re: CVSIGNORE file help?

2005-03-08 Thread OTESAO
Well basically I've checkout a set of jsp and java files from a brand a repository into an eclipse project. Then I added some gif, html, psd, class files into the checked out folders, but wanna ignore them when doing a commit. any way to do a global .cvsignore rather than a .cvsignore in each

CVSIGNORE file help?

2005-03-07 Thread OTESAO
I have a whole bunch of files in my local client directory that I wanted to ignore whenever doing and update or commit to the server. I noticed that you can have a file called .cvsignore, but that only works for a single client and you must have it in every directory and subdirectory in order

Re: CVSIGNORE file help?

2005-03-07 Thread Pierre Asselin
OTESAO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a whole bunch of files in my local client directory that I wanted to ignore whenever doing and update or commit to the server. [ ... ] Not sure what you want to do but: once a file is under CVS control, you can't ignore it. The .cvsignore and related

.cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Thomas Bornhaupt
Hi, i want to use *. in the .cvsignore file But it does not work. Is there a workaround? regards Thomas ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

RE: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Thomas Bornhaupt i want to use *. in the .cvsignore file But it does not work. Is there a workaround? Ignore the parent directory. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http

Re: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Thomas Bornhaupt
Hi Jim, i want to use *. in the .cvsignore file But it does not work. Is there a workaround? Ignore the parent directory. Ignore the parent directory is *.* and this would work. I want to ignore *. my C-Compiler creates binary files without extension. But this files

RE: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Rick Genter
Of Jim.Hyslop Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:29 AM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: .cvsignore *. Thomas Bornhaupt i want to use *. in the .cvsignore file But it does not work. Is there a workaround? Ignore the parent directory. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology

RE: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Thomas Bornhaupt wrote: my C-Compiler creates binary files without extension. But this files are not nessesary in the CVS Oh, I see. Sorry about the misunderstanding. I don't think you can do what you want directly - I believe the .cvsignore is simply a wildcard matching format (as opposed

Re: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Bornhaupt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Jim, i want to use *. in the .cvsignore file But it does not work. Is there a workaround? Ignore the parent directory. Ignore the parent directory

Re: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Frederic Brehm
Thomas Bornhaupt wrote: I want to ignore *. my C-Compiler creates binary files without extension. But this files are not nessesary in the CVS Are you running on a Unix system? If so, then *. matches files with a period as the last character. Files without an extension may not have that period.

Re: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Thomas Bornhaupt
Hi Frederic, If you are running on a Windows system and using CVSNT version 2.0.51d (the one I tested with), then '*' matches a file without an extension. Unfortunately, it also matches all files. i work still with 2.0.18. (never change a winning team) but i look for a newer on

Re: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Thomas Bornhaupt
But .cvsignore ignors '*.' I put the name explicit in the .cvsignore file. This work. But so i have to change all the .cvsignore files. Thomas ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Thomas Bornhaupt
extension in the .cvsignore file. This work. but there was an other nice think. I use TortoiseCVS. And have a new project in a new direktory. If i make an add ('CVS Inhalt hinzufügen') to the parent directory. The new dirctory would be added but also my file without extension. The .cvsignore file

Re: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Thomas Bornhaupt
Hi, all together now: *. (files without extension) does not work in the .cvsignore with CVSNT 2.0.58b and Windowes. the tipp: [-_a-zA-Z0-9]*\. does also not work. Regards Thomas (it is not a bug, it is a featcher) ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info

RE: .cvsignore *.

2005-01-11 Thread Arthur Barrett
Thomas, i work still with 2.0.18. This is CVSNT (check with cvs -v on the command line). Please direct all CVSNT questions to the CVSNT mailing list: http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt or news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt The current version is 2.0.58d - but I do not know

cvsignore and core directory

2004-05-04 Thread Pablo Neira
a kernel source for personal modifications. Well, kernel contains some directories called core which are ignored because it's included in the list of files/directory to be ignored. Actually I can see: I core while importing. I had a look at cvsignore docs: http://docs.freebsd.org/info/cvs

Re: cvsignore and core directory

2004-05-04 Thread Mark D. Baushke
while importing. I had a look at cvsignore docs: http://docs.freebsd.org/info/cvs/cvs.info.cvsignore.html so it says that I can _add_ new files to be ignored, mmm so can I modify this list?. Actually I created a file cvsignore: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs# cat CVSROOT/cvsignore RCS

cvsignore on WinCVS

2004-02-04 Thread Diego Ribeiro de Andrade
Hi, Im tring to block files with extensions that I dont want the users send to the repository. I begin trying to block ZIP files. I created the cvsignore file in CVSROOT. *.zip I doesnt work first time, so I checked in the output Window of WinCVS that it sendthe -I ! parameter

RE: cvsignore on WinCVS

2004-02-04 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Diego Ribeiro de Andrade wrote: Im tring to block files with extensions that I dont want the users send to the repository. I begin trying to block ZIP files. Well, you might want to rethink that. There are times I have needed to check in zip files, for specific reasons (certain files, provided

RE: cvsignore

2004-01-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Purushotham Komaravolu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody tell me how to setup cvsignore for the entire repository. I added the attached file to the repository/CVSROOT folder, but it dint work. Just a shot in the dark here, but did you add cvsignore to CVSROOT

cvsignore

2004-01-21 Thread Purushotham Komaravolu
Hello, Can somebody tell me how to setup cvsignore for the entire repository. I added the attached file to the repository/CVSROOT folder, but it dint work. i.e I created a test.class and tried to add *.* to repository, CVS should ignore that file.. but it dint Thanks Puru

Re: cvsignore

2004-01-21 Thread Larry Jones
Purushotham Komaravolu writes: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! I added the attached file to the repository/CVSROOT folder, but it dint work. i.e I created a test.class and tried to

RE: cvsignore

2003-10-22 Thread kent emia
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:47, Gisbert Amm wrote: checking out the CVSROOT from the network will return an error ~$ cvs co CVSROOT cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied cvs server: Updating CVSROOT U CVSROOT/checkoutlist snip ~$ but if i will checkout

RE: cvsignore

2003-10-22 Thread kent emia
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:16, Gisbert Amm wrote: As which user do you checkout the CVSROOT directory on the remote host? uhuh... by using pserver logging in the user both remote and local im still having the 'cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied' what am i missing

RE: cvsignore

2003-10-22 Thread kent emia
]$ ##checking out the CVSROOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] repo]$ cvs co CVSROOT cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied cvs server: Updating CVSROOT U CVSROOT/checkoutlist U CVSROOT/commitinfo U CVSROOT/config U CVSROOT/cvswrappers U CVSROOT/editinfo U CVSROOT/loginfo U CVSROOT/modules U

RE: cvsignore

2003-10-22 Thread kent emia
do a grep /root/.cvsignore within CVSROOT already? not yet BTW: The error is annoying but should not prevent you from working with cvs. AFAIS the checkout works correctly. yah i just noticed it and i tried to refer to the group... Gisbert Amm -Original Message- From

Re: cvsignore

2003-10-22 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 By default, cvs will try to add ~/.cvsignore to the wildcards found in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore, ~/.cvsignore and in the CVSIGNORE environment variable. As root is starting the cvs server side of the connection it would seem likely that ~root

Re: cvsignore

2003-10-22 Thread Larry Jones
kent emia writes: ~$ cvs co CVSROOT cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied You're running an old version of CVS on the server and you have $HOME set in the server's environment, either because you've explicitly set it or because [x]inetd has (erroneously) set it for you

cvsignore

2003-10-21 Thread kent emia
checking out the CVSROOT from the network will return an error ~$ cvs co CVSROOT cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied cvs server: Updating CVSROOT U CVSROOT/checkoutlist snip ~$ but if i will checkout the CVSROOT in the server theres no error -- kent emia [EMAIL

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-09 Thread Fabian Cenedese
We should have been happy with running make distclean before running cvs import. (snip) find . -print | xargs rm We use cvs in our IDE for the customers. Upon creation of a project there are already many source files from the (embedded) OS. These files are already precompiled as a

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Jones
Kaz Kylheku writes: This is as it should be. The TYPES file represents the project's policy; some random user command should not override that policy. If we don't want .exe files in the repository, the add command should defend that decision for us, even if weakly. I happen to disagree,

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-06 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:19:44PM -0700, Peschko, Edward wrote: [ Larry Jones wrote:] Damn straight. If you want software that thinks it knows more than you etc... But that goes contrary to the dictum there's more than one way to do it. Umm, you've got the wrong Larry :-) No way is

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Frederic Brehm
are still being collected :-) I agree that cvs add does just what it should do, but I can understand the desire for a cvs add-with-ignore command. It wouldn't be too hard to write a shell script cvs-my-add that trimmed the list of files on the command line based on the contents of ./.cvsignore

RE: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Alexandre Augusto Drummond Barroso
: Greg A. Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:58 PM To: CVS-II Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored [ On Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at 16:34:23 (-0700), Peschko, Edward wrote: ] Subject: It is in the sense that you are forcing

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Jones
Peschko, Edward writes: Why the resistance to what would be a trivial feature? Because even trivial features are expensive. They clutter up the code, the test suite, the documentation, and the users' minds. In this case, it encourages a bad, some would even say dangerous, habbit (expecting

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Peschko, Edward
If we don't want .exe files in the repository, the add command should defend that decision for us, even if weakly. I happen to disagree strongly . . . There's nothing I hate more than software that knows more than I do.. etc. etc. etc But that's what I don't understand. The idea behind

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 11:42:37 (-0700), Peschko, Edward wrote: ] Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored But that's what I don't understand. The idea behind .cvsblock (or TYPES or whatever) is to be able to *customize* the software to be able to exclude files. What you don't

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Kaz Kylheku
But that's what I don't understand. The idea behind .cvsblock (or TYPES or whatever) is to be able I think that .cvsblock is silly; the tiny semantics difference between that and .cvsignore is not worth it. The cvs add command should ignore things that match .cvsignore, period. Those who disagree

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 14:00:12 (-0700), Kaz Kylheku wrote: ] Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored I think that .cvsblock is silly; the tiny semantics difference between that and .cvsignore is not worth it. The cvs add command should ignore things that match .cvsignore, period

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from Greg Woods: [ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 14:00:12 (-0700), Kaz Kylheku wrote: ] Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored I think that .cvsblock is silly; the tiny semantics difference between that and .cvsignore is not worth it. The cvs add command should ignore

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 15:23:16 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored I agree with the first part, but I don't believe that the second part was really considered by the designer and the implementation came out the way it did by default. Actually

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Paul Sander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Consider the use of cvs import, which obeys the .cvsignore file. Yes, that 'cvs import' obeys the .cvsignore file is somewhat broken. The '-I !' command-line option should be honored and should NOT process either local .cvsignore files or the global

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Jones
not be committed. No, the big thing to remember that is different between import and add is that add takes an explicit list of files to process whereas import does not. .cvsignore *never* overrides an explicit file specification by the user (nor should it), it only affects what files CVS processes

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-05 Thread Peschko, Edward
No. A user should be able to add any file to the repository that they wish The .cvsignore file is to reduce the clutter on an update or diff I disagree. If I say 'cvs add * in a directory, I surely don't want to pick up extra files, like vim's .swp, and ~ files, or maybe .bak files

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-05 Thread Larry Jones
Peschko, Edward writes [in long lines]: I disagree. If I say 'cvs add * in a directory, I surely don't want to pick up extra files, like vim's .swp, and ~ files, or maybe .bak files, or whatever. Then don't say that. Or follow it with a cvs rm *.swp ... to unadd the stuff that you didn't

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-05 Thread Peschko, Edward
I disagree. If I say 'cvs add * in a directory, I surely don't want to pick up extra files, like vim's .swp and ~ files., Then don't say that. Or follow it with a cvs rm *.swp ... to unadd the stuff you didn't really want to add in the first place. But don't complain when CVS does exactly

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-05 Thread Larry Jones
Peschko, Edward writes [still using long lines]: But that's no good - its error prone, and it puts the onus on the user to get it right. Damn straight. If you want software that thinks it knows more than you do, Microsoft will be glad to oblige you. The philosophy here is that the user is

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-05 Thread Peschko, Edward
But that's no good - its error prone, and it puts the onus on the user to get it right. Damn straight. If you want software that thinks it knows more than you etc... But that goes contrary to the dictum there's more than one way to do it. You didn't comment on my .cvsblock proposal -

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at 13:04:30 (-0700), Peschko, Edward wrote: ] Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored... I disagree. If I say 'cvs add * in a directory, I surely don't want to pick up extra files, like vim's .swp, and ~ files, or maybe .bak files, or whatever. Regardless

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at 13:41:14 (-0700), Peschko, Edward wrote: ] Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored... But that's no good - its error prone, Ah, NO, it is definitely _not_ error prone! and it puts the onus on the user to get it right. If I'm a cvs administrator working

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-05 Thread Edward Peschko
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:11:07PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: [[ PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO RESPOND TO ME DIRECTLY WHEN YOU CC THE LIST, and if you do not want me to do so in return then set your reply-to header appropriately ]] It is not possible for me to set my 'reply-to header'

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-05 Thread Peschko, Edward
like '--force' That would be minutely better than your next suggestion, but its still really very unnecessary and would seriously break backward compatibility... etc That's why I suggested a new feature. [about .cvsblock ] Then who gets to mediate between that and the existing .cvsignore list

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-05 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Peschko, Edward wrote: No need for mediation. The point of .cvsblock would be to scan, and filter, arguments on the You want it, you hack it! Meta-CVS works as you want. It has a TYPES file which can specify that files having a certain suffix ought to be added using a

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
[[ PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO RESPOND TO ME DIRECTLY WHEN YOU CC THE LIST, and if you do not want me to do so in return then set your reply-to header appropriately ]] [ On Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at 15:48:58 (-0700), Peschko, Edward wrote: ] Subject: Re: .cvsignore file being ignored The more

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

2003-06-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
such people then it is your duty to teach them to use their tools more properly! Why not change CVS and let them do this Because it's FAR too late for such a fundamental change. You can't just arbitrarily invert the way the UI and a key feature like the .cvsignore file works in a widely used tool

.cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-04 Thread Peschko, Edward
hm. I have a .cvsignore file in each of my directories with the following entry: *~ and yet when I say: cvs add file~ it happily accepts the file, puts it in for committing. when I cvs commit, it commits the file. umm... shouldn't .cvsignore block these entries from being even processed

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-04 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Peschko, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hm. I have a .cvsignore file in each of my directories with the following entry: *~ and yet when I say: cvs add file~ it happily accepts the file, puts it in for committing. when I cvs commit, it commits the file. umm... shouldn't

cvsignore to ignore subdirectories instead of files?

2003-02-24 Thread Matthew Herrmann
hi all, I have a project which produces HTML output into a subfolder called HTML. I want to ignore the folder because I produce it with my build script. However, .cvsignore only ignores files. Any way around this? TIA, Matthew Herrmann -- Far Edge Technology

Re: cvsignore to ignore subdirectories instead of files?

2003-02-24 Thread Larry Jones
Matthew Herrmann writes: However, .cvsignore only ignores files. Any way around this? .cvsignore ignores both files and directories. However, if CVS had already noted that a subdirectory exists *before* you added it to .cvsignore, it will continue to process it. To correct that, edit the CVS

CVSROOT/cvsignore

2002-12-19 Thread Cary Coulter
I can't get the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore file to work correctly (what I think it should do :)). I put a single line entry with vssver.scc on it to keep these files from importing (we're migrating some projects from Visual SourceSafe), but they get importedand/or recognized as unknown

Re: CVSROOT/cvsignore

2002-12-19 Thread Larry Jones
Cary Coulter writes: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary80217196335194441== Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! I can't get the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore file to work correctly (what I think

CVSIGNORE on WinCVS

2002-10-30 Thread Mike Ayers
I am using WinCVS. Setting the CVSIGNORE environment variable, either for user or system, does not seem to work. Does anyone know what will work. I would prefer to avoid changing CVSROOT/.cvsignore if possible, as that tends to change things for everyone on all projects. TiA, /|/|ike

cvsignore list, and directory names

2002-10-28 Thread npat
What will happen if a cvs command (say for instance cvs import) finds a **directory** named core, which by default *is* in the cvs ignore list? Will it ignore any files in this directory? /npat -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,

Re: cvsignore list, and directory names

2002-10-28 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What will happen if a cvs command (say for instance cvs import) finds a **directory** named core, which by default *is* in the cvs ignore list? Will it ignore any files in this directory? Yes. -Larry Jones I stand FIRM in my belief of what's right! I REFUSE to

RE: cvsignore list, and directory names

2002-10-28 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What will happen if a cvs command (say for instance cvs import) finds a **directory** named core, which by default *is* in the cvs ignore list? Will it ignore any files in this directory? Yes. This happened the other day while I was

How do I make the cvsignore file recursive

2002-06-05 Thread Stockfisch, Glenn
I've had success making a cvsignore file work in a specific directory, by placing the file in that directory, but I'm pretty sure that you should be able to make an ignore file work globally (i.e. block out all .bak files no matter how far down the tree structure). I've tried the help files

cvsignore and directories

2002-04-26 Thread Nathan Coast
hi, Is it possible to exclude whole directories via the .cvsignore mechanism? If yes, how? I've added the directory names to exclude to the .cvsignore file at the same point in the heirarchy as the directories I want ignored, but cvs still includes them. cheers Nathan

Re: cvsignore and directories

2002-04-26 Thread Larry Jones
Nathan Coast writes: Is it possible to exclude whole directories via the .cvsignore mechanism? If yes, how? I've added the directory names to exclude to the .cvsignore file at the same point in the heirarchy as the directories I want ignored, but cvs still includes them. Yes it's

Re: question about cvsignore

2002-01-02 Thread Mark A. Flacy
My local respository is in /usr/local/cvsroot. I went into my working area and issued... cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot/ co CVSROOT ... I then changed into the new working area subdirectory of CVSROOT and issued... echo *.class *.txt *.jar cvsignore cvs add cvsignore cvs commit -m New file

Re: question about cvsignore

2001-12-19 Thread * Tong *
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: currently, my $CVSROOT/CVSROOT dir does not contains a cvsignore file. Is it sufficient to simply create the file in the directory, or do I need to checkout CVSROOT, and 'cvs add

cvsignore problem

2001-12-19 Thread * Tong *
Hi, I am having problems trying to avoid some files using cvsignore file. When I created it using the following command, echo *.class *.txt *.jar $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore chmod ug+rwx,o-rwx !$ and did a cvs import (using a normal user account), all .class files get imported. Here

Re: cvsignore-ing everything but .cvsignore

2001-12-15 Thread Jack Baty
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:30:31PM -0500, Jack Baty wrote: My problem is that I don't know if there's a way to cvsignore all files *except* the .cvsignore file within each directory. Put an entry * in .cvsignore. If a file is already CVS-tracked, that takes

cvsignore-ing everything but .cvsignore

2001-12-14 Thread Jack Baty
, since they will never belong in the repository. I'm trying to solve this with a .cvsignore. My problem is that I don't know if there's a way to cvsignore all files *except* the .cvsignore file within each directory. Unless there's a better way to handle this altogether. Let me know if I've

Re: cvsignore-ing everything but .cvsignore

2001-12-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:30:31PM -0500, Jack Baty wrote: My problem is that I don't know if there's a way to cvsignore all files *except* the .cvsignore file within each directory. Put an entry * in .cvsignore. If a file is already CVS-tracked, that takes priority over a .cvsignore entry

Config files - cvsignore sometimes?

2001-12-04 Thread Jack Baty
I'm using CVS for web app development. I typically keep a /config directory for things like local settings (database login, file paths, etc.). I'm having a tough time figuring out how to manage these files. I'd like to make sure that whenever someone checks out the module that they get the

.cvsignore?

2001-12-04 Thread Felix Moedritscher
I'm trying to ignore a whole directory in a cvs module, but it simply isnt working. I have a .cvsignore file in the directory above, where one file and the directory name is entered. the file is always ignored, when updating, but the directory and all its files always are shown when updating

question about cvsignore

2001-11-29 Thread prhodes
Regarding cvsignore the Cederqvist manual says The per-repository list in `$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore' is appended to the list, if that file exists. currently, my $CVSROOT/CVSROOT dir does not contains a cvsignore file. Is it sufficient to simply create the file in the directory, or do I need

Re: question about cvsignore

2001-11-29 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: currently, my $CVSROOT/CVSROOT dir does not contains a cvsignore file. Is it sufficient to simply create the file in the directory, or do I need to checkout CVSROOT, and 'cvs add' the cvsignore file? Simply creating the file is sufficient, but checkout and add

Re: [WinCVS:Can't open .cvsignore}I got an answer, but ....

2001-11-20 Thread Larry Jones
Ken Hu writes: I've run into the following problem and I found the answer in the manual. But I am sure that I have set -f parameter in my inetd.conf file. So , any idea why this still occurs ? Because you're running on a version of Linux where inetd incorrectly sets $HOME for the processes

[WinCVS:Can't open .cvsignore}I got an answer, but ....

2001-11-19 Thread Ken Hu
but get errors like: cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied cvs [server aborted]: can¡¦t chdir(/root): Permission denied then you probably haven¡¦t specified ¡¥-f¡¦ in ¡¥inetd.conf

unable to read .cvsignore

2001-10-25 Thread doozer
and check out anything through wincvs it simply reports that it was unable to chdir into /root so that it could read .cvsignore I can't remember ever saying that it should find .cvsignore in the root users folder so why is it looking there (of all places). I am pretty sure this is a fairly simple

Re: unable to read .cvsignore

2001-10-25 Thread Larry Jones
doozer writes: Every time I try and check out anything through wincvs it simply reports that it was unable to chdir into /root so that it could read .cvsignore You omitted the -f from the CVS command line in /etc/inetd.conf. -Larry Jones He's just jealous because I accomplish so much more

Why error /root/.cvsignore can not open. permission denied.

2001-10-05 Thread Rajesh Kumar
Why error /root/.cvsignore can not open. permission denied. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

cvsignore problem

2001-06-04 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
When I try to checkout (from WinCVS. Repository is on unix box.) I get this error: cvs server: cannot open /homeroot/.cvsignore: Permission denied Note 1: /homeroot is the actually home directory for the unix user root. Note 2: I am not root. I am cvsadmin and the entire software

Re: cvsignore problem

2001-06-04 Thread Donald Sharp
Check the documentation: http://faq.cvshome.org/fom-server/cache/23.html donald On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:00:32PM -0700, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: When I try to checkout (from WinCVS. Repository is on unix box.) I get this error: cvs server: cannot open /homeroot/.cvsignore: Permission

Put .deps directories in .cvsignore files?

2001-06-01 Thread Stephen Cameron
Hi, I've checked out CVS sometime ago from cvs.cvshome.org, and now I do: [scameron@zuul ccvs]$ cvs -z3 -nq update ? lib/.deps/argmatch.Po ? lib/.deps/dup2.Po ? lib/.deps/fncase.Po [ ... loads more ? files...] ? src/.deps/[loads of ? files...] Should there be .cvsignore entries

Re: Put .deps directories in .cvsignore files?

2001-06-01 Thread Larry Jones
Stephen Cameron writes: Should there be .cvsignore entries for these .deps directories? There are. -Larry Jones I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Put .deps directories in .cvsignore files?

2001-06-01 Thread Derek R. Price
there be .cvsignore entries for these .deps directories? Or is there a reason not to? These directories were briefly checked into CVS because of a mistake of mine. I've since deleted them from the repository, but for one reason or another CVS kept checking out the empty directory, or perhaps, more

Re: Question about cvsignore file

2001-05-19 Thread Larry Jones
George Mathew writes: I am trying not to ignore the core directory during cvs import. I added a cvsignore file in $CVSROOT/$CVSROOT directory of server. [...] This did not work. But if I add this to my $HOME/.cvsignore file it works. The documentation says $CVSROOT/$CVSROOT is the first

Question about cvsignore file

2001-05-18 Thread George Mathew
I am trying not to ignore the core directory during cvs import. I added a cvsignore file in $CVSROOT/$CVSROOT directory of server. This cvsignore file contains: ! RCS SCCSCVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tagsTAGS .make.state .nse_depinfo

Re: Error: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied

2001-04-23 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:00:15PM +0100, Geraint Evans wrote: I keep getting the following error whenever I try to do anything: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied I am using pserver to access a remote repository. The error is intermittent - sometimes everything works fine

Error: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied

2001-04-23 Thread Geraint Evans
Hi I keep getting the following error whenever I try to do anything: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied I am using pserver to access a remote repository. The error is intermittent - sometimes everything works fine and other times I can't do anything. The person who is hosting

.cvsignore and directories

2001-03-12 Thread ross . burton
Hi, In one of the directories in our CVS tree we build executables which obviously we don't want to be committed in the tree. For example: . \- Translator \- Binaries.Linux.i386 Translator is in the tree, but Binaries is created by the makefiles. There is a .cvsignore file in Translator

Re: .cvsignore and directories

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:53:07PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . \- Translator \- Binaries.Linux.i386 Translator is in the tree, but Binaries is created by the makefiles. There is a .cvsignore file in Translator which contains the line "Binaries.*". However, when I run

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: Updating the default cvsignore list

2001-03-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
s far from a common convention. Conservativeness argues against ignoring them by default. ID GNU id-utils database file Likewise. I have this in my ~/.cvsignore, but I doubt it should be in the default list, since it's only a generated file on those systems that hap

Re: Updating the default cvsignore list

2001-02-28 Thread Sam Roberts
;objs" to my .cvsignore file, would it not be ignored because its a directory? Not so good... Short of rewiring the cvsignore so you can specify a file type, I don't think there's much to do about this problem. For example, a file named "core" should be ignored. But a directory

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