RE: problems with CVS on NT

2000-06-07 Thread Eitle Jürgen
Hi, ok here it comes. If I do the same as I described in the last mail, but this time I stop WinCVS and restart it, then it works. Which means, that somehow (win)CVS is keeping the file open. But how could this be? In fact when I do the whole thing from the command line it works out ok. It

RE: problems with CVS on NT

2000-06-06 Thread Eitle Jürgen
Ok, here is what I get C:\cvs -v Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10.8 (client/server) Copyright (c) 1989-1998 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn, Jeff Polk, and other authors Win32 version (May 23 2000) Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Tony Hoyle and others see

RE: problems with CVS on NT

2000-06-06 Thread Eitle Jürgen
The thing is that VSS is used here by some people, as is CVS on Unix(!). The people here use VSS as a simple control to manage the file access by multiple developers. So there is no experience with branching and merging. According to the VSS manual branching and merging are possible. I am

RE: problems with CVS on NT

2000-06-06 Thread Eitle Jürgen
Hi, I did another test, to sort out the mess a little bit. This time just one user. First I checked out a file, modified it and checked it in. This works well and the version is now 1.2 (up from 1.1). Next thing I do is to modify the file again, and then check it in again. However, that does not

Re: problems with CVS on NT

2000-06-05 Thread Tony Hoyle
Eitle Jürgen wrote: Hi, I am trying to use CVS on NT. The repository is mounted locally, i. e. it is not a client/server set up. Now, when developer 1 has committed a file and developer 2 updates this file, makes some changes, and wants to commit the file I get a very disturbing error

RE: problems with CVS on NT

2000-06-05 Thread Eitle Jürgen
Hi, I am using CVS 10.8NT version as of may 25, 2000.

RE: problems with CVS on NT

2000-06-05 Thread Eitle Jürgen
no cvs doesn't continue to run. I checked with the task manager. Let me get a bit more detailed: I am testing this whole thing, in order to see whether it is fit to be used for our purposes. So for the moment I am he only user. I. e. I simulate the multiuser access. I do this by starting two

Re: problems with CVS on NT

2000-06-05 Thread Noel L Yap
Apologies to everyone. I was answering the wrong problem. Noel Noel L Yap 06/05/2000 08:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problems with CVS on NT (Document link not converted) setgid the directories in your repo. man chmod for more info. Noel [EMAIL