More locking, sort of

2002-09-05 Thread cvs
Hi wizards. I have what I believe to be a different variant of the perpetual question about locking. I have a situation where, due to persistent problems with some hackers modifying some parts of a code base without understanding it first, we end up with broken code much more frequently than is

More locking, sort of

2002-09-05 Thread cvs
From: Noel Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:24:29 -0700 (PDT) This is more a permissioning problem than a locking problem. Right. One way to solve it, as you said, is to use chmod/setfacl although I would agree that this is the wrong tool sinc

More locking, sort of

2002-09-05 Thread cvs
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:03:59 -0500 (CDT) [...] > Set up a Unix group which has write access to the repository. > Ensure that everything in the repository is read-only to everyone > else, and ensure that the directories all have the setuid bit

Re: More locking, sort of

2002-09-05 Thread Noel Yap
This is more a permissioning problem than a locking problem. One way to solve it, as you said, is to use chmod/setfacl although I would agree that this is the wrong tool since, in order to perform those operations, noe would need to own the file and since archive files are owned by the last perso

Re: More locking, sort of

2002-09-05 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:10:51 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [info-cvs] More locking, sort of > > Hi wizards. I have what I believe to be a different variant of the > perpetual question abo

Re: More locking, sort of

2002-09-05 Thread david
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:10:51 -0400 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [info-cvs] More locking, sort of > > > > Obviously, there are political problems at work here; i

Re: More locking, sort of

2002-09-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, September 5, 2002 at 13:10:51 (-0400), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] > Subject: More locking, sort of > > Hi wizards. I have what I believe to be a different variant of the > perpetual question about locking. I have a situation where, due to > persistent problems wi

Re: More locking, sort of

2002-09-06 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ ... ] > Automated regression testing of the baseline on every commit ensures > other developers always have correct code to work with. > > One such tool with these features is Aegis. > > http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis.html > > They can be hacked onto C

Re: More locking, sort of

2002-09-06 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Saturday, September 7, 2002 at 00:21:25 (+1000), Matthew Hannigan wrote: ] > Subject: Re: More locking, sort of > > Greg A. Woods wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Automated regression testing of the baseline on every commit ensures > > other developers always hav

CVS vs Aegis (Re: More locking, sort of)

2002-09-07 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Saturday, September 7, 2002 at 00:21:25 (+1000), Matthew Hannigan wrote: ] >>Have you or do you know of anyone who has jumped >>from CVS to Aegis? > > > I don't know about "jumped", but I have used it on one new project and > will probably use it on other new multi-pe

Re: CVS vs Aegis (Re: More locking, sort of)

2002-09-07 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Thanks for your reply, I agreed with most of it. Greg A. Woods wrote: > Finally note that not everyone will need the kind of control that Aegis > offers -- for many people CVS is sufficient. I think this is the biggy; there seems to a lot of learning to do in adopting Aegis, compared to cvs, es