RE: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-04-01 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Antony Paul wrote: Web based - Java. We use branches and it is to avoid merging only. Each task have some modified and some new files. We send mails for each task. If editing Entries file is so problematic it is better to have another working copy where testing passed files are checked

Re: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-03-31 Thread Antony Paul
Web based - Java. We use branches and it is to avoid merging only. Each task have some modified and some new files. We send mails for each task. If editing Entries file is so problematic it is better to have another working copy where testing passed files are checked out and tagged. Here

Re: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-03-30 Thread Russ Sherk
Ok. That way you will only have to keep track of all the files you don't want tagged as well as all the corrisponding CVS/Entries files you are modifying. Sorry for the sarcasm. But you still need to keep track of a list of files and editing CVS/Entries sounds a bit dangerous. I'd be inclined

Re: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-03-30 Thread Antony Paul
2005 10:12:29 -0500, Jim.Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antony Paul wrote: It will become complicated to keep the list of files. Better I will write a script to delete the file from CVS/Entries file. If this is something you are going to do on a regular basis, then sooner or later

Re: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-03-29 Thread Russ Sherk
cvs tag -d MY_TAG Path/to/my.file [[Path/to/other.file]...] Cheers, --Russ On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:14:45 +0530, Antony Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need to delete a file from local checked out file(not from repository) and tag the rest of the file. If I just delete the file

Re: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-03-29 Thread Antony Paul
Thanks for the reply. It will become complicated to keep the list of files. Better I will write a script to delete the file from CVS/Entries file. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:11:15 -0500, Russ Sherk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cvs tag -d MY_TAG Path/to/my.file [[Path/to/other.file]...] Cheers

Re: cvs release does not update the CVS/Entries(.log) file

2005-03-15 Thread david . andersson
Larry Jones writes: Reinstein, Shlomo writes: I would like to use cvs release to get rid of a sub-tree of my project. However, I noticed that cvs release does not update the CVS/Entries (or CVS/Entries.log) file, which causes a problem later when I want to run other commands, like cvs

Re: CVS/Entries..

2004-04-07 Thread Larry Jones
Gurpreet Singh (SCM) writes: Just to make sure can the size of the codebase (say nearly 4.2GB) I am getting be an issue, assuming my sys / network is fine. The size of the codebase would not cause permission problems. -Larry Jones I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. --

Re: CVS/Entries..

2004-04-07 Thread Geoff Beier
I is a clean get / co task. I am getting it on a Windows 2000 system. Its not on a NFS or so. Also, this happens randomly on different systems - not everytime. The permissions are intact, the network login is the local administartor - to be more sure that this should not be the reason. It

RE: CVS/Entries..

2004-04-06 Thread Gurpreet Singh (SCM)
. Regards Gurpreet S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CVS/Entries.. Gurpreet Singh (SCM) writes: cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup

Re: CVS/Entries..

2004-04-06 Thread Larry Jones
Gurpreet Singh (SCM) writes: I is a clean get / co task. I am getting it on a Windows 2000 system. Its not on a NFS or so. Is your working directory on a Windows share? Also, this happens randomly on different systems - not everytime. The permissions are intact, the network login is

RE: CVS/Entries..

2004-04-06 Thread Gurpreet Singh (SCM)
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CVS/Entries.. Gurpreet Singh (SCM) writes: I is a clean get / co task. I am getting it on a Windows 2000 system. Its not on a NFS or so. Is your working directory on a Windows share

CVS/Entries..

2004-04-05 Thread Gurpreet Singh (SCM)
previous versions of CVS. This release fixes several client server bugs, including a problem where release of a subdirectory could cause corruption of the CVS/Entries file and some memory leak plugs. We recommend this upgrade for all CVS clients servers! I am having CVS 1.11.11, can an upgrade

Re: CVS/Entries..

2004-04-05 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gurpreet Singh (SCM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following error is being received while getting a codebase : cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied This error indicates a problem

Re: CVS/Entries..

2004-04-05 Thread Larry Jones
Gurpreet Singh (SCM) writes: cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entri es: Permission denied Are you checking out into an existing working directory or is checkout creating a new working directory? If the former, check the permissions and ownership of the CVS

Re: cvs admin -o latest does not modify CVS/Entries

2004-03-26 Thread Larry Jones
Sam Steingold writes: if the latest version is 1.7 and I do $ cvs admin -o 1.7 foo then foo is still marked as 1.7 in CVS/Entries and thus I have to edit it by hand to be able to work on the file. Admin only affects the repository, it does not affect your working directory. And note

RE: cvs admin -o latest does not modify CVS/Entries

2004-03-25 Thread Gagneet Singh
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Steingold Sent: Friday, 26 March, 2004 5:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cvs admin -o latest does not modify CVS/Entries if the latest version is 1.7 and I do $ cvs admin -o 1.7 foo then foo is still marked as 1.7

CVS Entries file being truncated

2003-10-07 Thread Steve Harris
Hi, Recently we have been finding that our Entries files on some sandboxes have become truncated. If we remove the directory and check it out from cvs again using 'cvs up -d dir' then all is well and the Entries file is just fine. Haven't been able to pin it down to a particular

view a file in CVS without it messing with my /CVS/Entries info.

2002-11-18 Thread Schoep, Grant @ STORM
All, hopefully a real simple answer... I want to look at a particular revision of a file, without having it change anything in my local directory. Example... I have test.cxx version 1.15 in my sandbox. I'd like to, just go back to see what version 1.11 looked like. stdout or a file, I don't

Re: view a file in CVS without it messing with my/CVS/Entries info.

2002-11-18 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Schoep, Grant @ STORM wrote: I want to look at a particular revision of a file, without having it change anything in my local directory. Try the -p option of cvs up. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: view a file in CVS without it messing with my /CVS/Entries info.

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:04:11PM -0500, Schoep, Grant @ STORM wrote: I want to look at a particular revision of a file, without having it change anything in my local directory. Usage: cvs update [-APdflRp] [-k kopt] [-r rev|-D date] [-j rev] [...] -p Send updates to

Re: cvs update (cvs status shows CVS/Entries cached date/time)

2002-09-06 Thread Todd Denniston
time of the file? Regards Jayashree cvs status a.c ls -l a.c #note timezone to GMT effect sleep 60;touch a.c cvs status a.c ls -l a.c #note no change from above cp a.c a.c.bak sleep 60;cp a.c.bak a.c;date grep a\.c CVS/Entries cvs status a.c;date grep a\.c CVS/Entries cvs status a.c;date ls -l

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: Yes, I have tried this and it's works. Would replacement of checkout with co result in the exact same thing? `cvs checkout` and `cvs co` are the same command, so yes. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: So if you are using CVS properly, the CVSROOT env var never comes into play. I think you're overstating the case. Most people just use a single repository and even people who use multiple repositories usually have one repository that they

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-15 Thread Larry Jones
Mike Ayers writes: Whoops! That should have read may never or almost never, assuming that checking out clean trees or importing are rarely done. In either case, setting an environmental variable, the procedure intended for making permanent changes to one's computing environment,

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-14 Thread Larry Jones
Mike Ayers writes: So if you are using CVS properly, the CVSROOT env var never comes into play. I think you're overstating the case. Most people just use a single repository and even people who use multiple repositories usually have one repository that they use more often than

RE: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-14 Thread Albin Takami
-Original Message- From: Mike Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading Albin Takami wrote: -Original Message- From

RE: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-13 Thread Albin Takami
-Original Message- From: Mike Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 7:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading Order scrambled to get thought flow... Albin

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-13 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Albin Takami wrote: To clarify, the repository location is the directory that you set the CVSROOT variable to, right? Yes, but you should not need to set CVSROOT - in fact,

RE: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-02 Thread Albin Takami
: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading H Albin Takami wrote: 4. Checked in/committed a bunch of files with cvs ci *.v What are *.v files? (Just curious) 5. I

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-02 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: 5.5 Peggy never checked out any files/module because the files she is trying to check-in/commit are new files (first time check-in). *BZZZT* Sorry... This is the problem. Once a project is created, in order to work in the project, one must

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-02 Thread Derek Robert Price
Albin Takami wrote: 5.5 Peggy never checked out any files/module because the files she is trying to check-in/commit are new files (first time check-in). Um, did Peggy `cvs add' the files before attempting to check them in? Derek -- *8^) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public

RE: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-02 Thread Albin Takami
: 'Mike Ayers'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading Albin Takami wrote: 5.5 Peggy never checked out any files/module because the files she is trying to check-in/commit are new files (first time check-in). *BZZZT* Sorry

RE: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-02 Thread Albin Takami
-Original Message- From: Mike Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading Albin Takami wrote: ...Check out the project tree... Ok

Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-01 Thread Albin Takami
to check in some files using the same command as I did (cvs ci *.v), and that's when she got below error message. cvs commit: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs commit: nothing known about `abc.v' cvs commit: nothing known about `def.v' Please let me know what I do wrong

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-01 Thread Mike Ayers
H Albin Takami wrote: 4. Checked in/committed a bunch of files with cvs ci *.v What are *.v files? (Just curious) 5. I setup the .cshrc file for another user, Peggy. 5.5 When did Peggy do `cvs checkout project/module`? This is when the CVS directories

Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-07-30 Thread Albin Takami
to check in some files using the same command as I did (cvs ci *.v), and that's when she got below error message. cvs commit: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs commit: nothing known about `abc.v' cvs commit: nothing known about `def.v' Please let me know what I do wrong

cvs release does not update the CVS/Entries(.log) file

2002-06-24 Thread Reinstein, Shlomo
Hi, I would like to use cvs release to get rid of a sub-tree of my project. However, I noticed that cvs release does not update the CVS/Entries (or CVS/Entries.log) file, which causes a problem later when I want to run other commands, like cvs status, cvs tag, etc. For example: cvs -d my-cvs

Re: cvs release does not update the CVS/Entries(.log) file

2002-06-24 Thread Larry Jones
Reinstein, Shlomo writes: I would like to use cvs release to get rid of a sub-tree of my project. However, I noticed that cvs release does not update the CVS/Entries (or CVS/Entries.log) file, which causes a problem later when I want to run other commands, like cvs status, cvs tag, etc

CVS/Entries error when issuing CVS commands

2002-03-06 Thread Mark Crouch
command, I get the error:cvs add: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory, cvs [add aborted]: no repository. I am NOT setting my CVSROOT on the client, or any other cvs env variables for that matter. Is this required? I thought I saw something in a cvs documentation file

Re: CVS/Entries error when issuing CVS commands

2002-03-06 Thread Larry Jones
to use the add cvs command, I get the error:cvs add: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory, cvs [add aborted]: no repository. You can only add files in a directory that you've already checked out from CVS. I suggest you read the manual and/or Karl Fogel's book. Links

Re: cannot open CVS/Entries

2001-10-09 Thread Brooke Smith
and I get the next error message: cvs checkout: in directory xnews/WEB-INF/tld: cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open current directory: No such file or directory *CVS exited normally with code 1* What

cannot open CVS/Entries

2001-09-20 Thread Rafael Luque Leiva
Hi all! I have committed all changes in my project and then tagged the repository with a release name. Then I try to checkout the module and I get the next error message: cvs checkout: in directory xnews/WEB-INF/tld: cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory

CVS/Entries

2001-06-19 Thread Damir Horvat
: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory Is this cvs bug or am I missing something? Kind regards, Damir Horvat ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

RE: CVS/Entries

2001-06-19 Thread Helliwell, Matthew
Is /cvsroot really completely empty? Shouldn't there be a CVSROOT subdirectory in there if the init has succeeded? Matt -Original Message- From: Damir Horvat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 June 2001 08:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVS/Entries Hello! I've made /cvsroot

Re: CVS/Entries and status

2001-06-19 Thread Larry Jones
Anita Chacko writes: I see in CVS manual that the CVS/Entries file will be of this format /name/revision/timestamp[+conflict]/options/tagdate [...] But when I see my CVS/Entries file in my working directory,I don't see any tag/branch names as follows. That's because you don't have

CVS/Entries and status

2001-06-18 Thread Anita Chacko
Hi I see in CVS manual that the CVS/Entries file will be of this format /name/revision/timestamp[+conflict]/options/tagdate It states that tagdate contains `T' followed by a tag name, or `D' for a date, followed by a sticky tag or date. I also came to know that we can obtain the branch name

Re: Updating CVS/Entries

2001-05-08 Thread R Bresner
Subject: Re: Updating CVS/Entries R Bresner writes: Is there a way to update the CVS/Entries file timestamps to avoid having cvs go to the repository to check for diffs? cvs update doesn't do it (I thought it would). If I understand what you're asking, cvs update *should* do what you

Re: Updating CVS/Entries

2001-05-07 Thread Larry Jones
R Bresner writes: Is there a way to update the CVS/Entries file timestamps to avoid having cvs go to the repository to check for diffs? cvs update doesn't do it (I thought it would). If I understand what you're asking, cvs update *should* do what you want. If the timestamp on a file

Re: CVS/ENTRIES and cvs release

2000-08-22 Thread Shane Turner
Shawn, I've found "cvs release" rather useless except when releasing the entire working directory. If I want to get rid of a directory in my working directory I ususally do the following, which updated the CVS/Entries file correctly: cvs update -r 0 -P directory_to_remove

Re: CVS/ENTRIES and cvs release

2000-08-21 Thread Larry Jones
in the CVS Entries file for its parent, does not exist in the directory hierarchy. How to work around this problem?? We've tried cvs release -d foo, but we still get the error when running the stat [and, I'd imagine, virtually any other command that is driven by the CVS/Entries file. I'm