Re: a question about wincvs

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Ajamian
Wang Liheng wrote: Dear sir or Madam, I am an administrator of CVS .We use WINCVS1.2 for client and Rad Hat Linux6.2 for server, and setup the server for connection with pserver and password authentication. In our company, i need to creat checkout-only users who can only checkout and

Re: a question about wincvs

2001-04-18 Thread Nils Jakobson
The easiest (and maybe the correct) way is to add the read-only users to 'readers' file in CVSROOT folder. If file file is missing - create it and simplyadd usernames one per line. Other way - create user groups and then assign permissionson folders accordingly inside repository, this way

a question about wincvs

2001-04-17 Thread Wang Liheng
Dear sir or Madam,I am an administrator of CVS .We use WINCVS1.2 for client and Rad Hat Linux6.2 for server, and setup the server for connection with pserver and password authentication. In our company, i need tocreat checkout-only users who can only checkout and update modules(or

Re: rename question -- urgent!!

2001-04-13 Thread Larry Jones
David L. Martin writes: The branch A change to old.txt will be disregarded in the merge to the trunk since old.txt no longer exists there. It won't be completely disreguarded: you'll get an error message telling you that old.txt does not exist but is present on branch A. -Larry Jones

Question

2001-04-12 Thread FORTINI Massimiliano
Hi, my name's Massimiliano. I have a question. When I deleted a file from CVS repository with Remove Selection and then Commit, Cvs created a subdirectory called Attic where he maintained the file deleted. What's he behavioral? Thankx in advance Massimiliano Fortini

Re: Question

2001-04-12 Thread Dennis Jones
- From: "FORTINI Massimiliano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mailing List CVS (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 3:11 AM Subject: Question Hi, my name's Massimiliano. I have a question. When I deleted a file from CVS repository with Remove Selection and then

Re: Question

2001-04-12 Thread Larry Jones
FORTINI Massimiliano writes: When I deleted a file from CVS repository with Remove Selection and then Commit, Cvs created a subdirectory called Attic where he maintained the file deleted. What's he behavioral? CVS moves the file into the Attic so it doesn't need to even look at it for most

rename question -- urgent!!

2001-04-12 Thread Chen, Susie
I have two branches (A and B) off the HEAD. Both branches have a file "old.txt". What I have done is: 1) On branch B, rename the file from old.txt to new.txt by removing,adding and then committing 2) merge branch B into HEAD Next I am planning to merge branch A into HEAD. But the filename in A

Re: rename question -- urgent!!

2001-04-12 Thread David L. Martin
- Original Message - From: "Chen, Susie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have two branches (A and B) off the HEAD. Both branches have a file "old.txt". What I have done is: 1) On branch B, rename the file from old.txt to new.txt by removing,adding and then committing 2) merge branch B into

'rcsinfo' template question

2001-04-11 Thread Vic Gedris
Is there a way to have the commit message editor NOT insert a blank line above my 'rcsinfo' template? I just want to have a template that looks like: BUG#/Activity: inspector: comments: It works fine now, except for the annoying blank line that is inserted at the beginning. Thanks, Vic --

Re: 'rcsinfo' template question

2001-04-11 Thread Larry Jones
Vic Gedris writes: Is there a way to have the commit message editor NOT insert a blank line above my 'rcsinfo' template? Apparently not. Does anyone know why the blank line is there? (It would be easy enough to change the code to get rid of it.) -Larry Jones The authorities are trying to

Re: Question about cvsGUI

2001-04-06 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3.I get a problem that I can't checkout from server, the message display in the screen is : "cvs -q checkout abc (in directory C:\temp\temp\temptest) cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) Please

modules question

2001-04-05 Thread Lloyd Lim
Hello, This line is in our modules file: mash-code tcl8.0 tk8.0 otcl tclcl gsm mash-1 apps lib tutorials This works fine and creates a mash-code directory with everything in it when you checkout mash-code. I'd like to add a couple individual files that would get placed in the mash-code

RE: modules question

2001-04-05 Thread Jerry Nairn
Put the files in ${CVSROOT}/mash-code, and change the line to read: mash-code mash-code tcl8.0 tk8.0 otcl tclcl gsm mash-1 apps lib tutorials If the files, file1 and file2, are in a different directory, say foo, you may have to do something like: mash-code foo file1 file2 tcl8.0 tk8.0 otcl

Question about CVS

2001-03-27 Thread Stephane BURKEL
Hello, Could you help me, please. I have install CVS 1.9 on my station with HP-UX B.11.00. But when I run this command: "cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init", I have an error message: "ci error: unknown option: -x,v/ ci aborted" The command "man cvs" inform me that thse options don't exist. I

CVS Question

2001-03-27 Thread Richard Abbott
Maybe this is a silly question, but is there any way to check out a single file that is in a module (rather than the whole module)? - Rich ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: CVS Question

2001-03-27 Thread Szabó Tamás
By specifing the file as a parameter $cvs co filename Tamas Richard Abbott wrote: Maybe this is a silly question, but is there any way to check out a single file that is in a module (rather than the whole module)? - Rich ___ Info-cvs

RE: CVS Question

2001-03-27 Thread Michael Thiele
Hi Rich, it is possible. Try it :-) cvs co module-name/path/file cu Michael -Original Message- From: Richard Abbott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVS Question Maybe this is a silly question

Re: CVS Question

2001-03-27 Thread irina sturm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this is a silly question, but is there any way to check out a single file that is in a module (rather than the whole module)? - Rich cvs co module/file should do what you want: it creates directory module with only file in it. However, you might don't

Re: CVS Question

2001-03-27 Thread Larry Jones
irina sturm writes: cvs co module/file should do what you want: it creates directory module with only file in it. However, you might don't want an extra directory module on top of the file, and I think (please anybody correct me if I am wrong) this is not possible as CVS is based on

Re: Question about CVS

2001-03-27 Thread Larry Jones
Stephane BURKEL writes: I have install CVS 1.9 on my station with HP-UX B.11.00. But when I run this command: "cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init", I have an error message: "ci error: unknown option: -x,v/ ci aborted" You have an ancient version of CVS along with a prehistoric version of

Re: Question about CVS

2001-03-27 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 14:29 +0200, Stephane BURKEL wrote: I have install CVS 1.9 on my station with HP-UX B.11.00. Does this version of CVS use the external RCS commands or does it bring their functionality with it? See the doc on this. But when I run this command: "cvs -d

Re: CVS Question

2001-03-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Richard Abbott wrote: Maybe this is a silly question, but is there any way to check out a single file that is in a module (rather than the whole module)? I believe: $cvs get -d put_it_here_directory module/foo/bar/zap/zing/dong/ding/dang/gork.htm should work. I hope that helps! Alex

RE: feature question

2001-03-26 Thread Noel L Yap
tched server. As Derek has pointed out, sanity.sh can cover the first five, but it can't test the different combinations of client/server. I think I've covered all the cases, but I may still be missing something. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.03.25 17:44:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [E

RE: feature question

2001-03-26 Thread Dave Cridland
Title: RE: feature question Ah, that's what it does... FWIW, I'd appreciate seeing this in the main CVS distribution, since otherwise I always simulate all this with my awful shell scripts. For those who care, it's not because reserved locks are useful in code, it's because they're useful

RE: feature question

2001-03-26 Thread Noel L Yap
: feature question Ah, that's what it does... FWIW, I'd appreciate seeing this in the main CVS distribution, since otherwise I always simulate all this with my awful shell scripts. For those who care, it's not because reserved locks are useful in code, it's because they're useful when

RE: feature question

2001-03-25 Thread Sasa Brcerevic
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: feature question Are you sure you're not using a Windows version that's been patched? Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.03.23 01:39:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: feature question Clear DayWhy did

Re: feature question

2001-03-23 Thread Derek R. Price
Sasa Brcerevic wrote: Why did not 'edit -c' make it to the cvs 1.11 and yet it is on the windows version of cvs 1.10.8? Most likely you were using a patched version of 1.10.8. The answer to the more general question of why 'edit -c' isn't in cvs 1.11 has to do with the lack of some

Re: feature question

2001-03-23 Thread Noel L Yap
Are you sure you're not using a Windows version that's been patched? Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.03.23 01:39:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: feature question Clear DayWhy did not 'edit -c' make it to the cvs 1.11 and yet it is on the windows version

feature question

2001-03-22 Thread Sasa Brcerevic
Title: Clear Day Why did not 'edit -c' make it to the cvs 1.11 and yet it is on the windows version of cvs 1.10.8? have a day, Sasa ==Sasa Brcerevic Technology Partners Group Phone: +61 1800 155 577Direct: +61 (02) 4925 1535Mobile: +61 (0416) 297

Re: Another time question

2001-03-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Annette Waters writes: Could you please explain how the time is used by CVS. Is it used to determine if a file has changed? Or, does it always look at the contents of the files to determine changes? CVS looks at the timestamp first; if it hasn't changed, then CVS

Another time question

2001-03-20 Thread Annette Waters
Could you please explain how the time is used by CVS. Is it used to determine if a file has changed? Or, does it always look at the contents of the files to determine changes? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another time question

2001-03-20 Thread Szabó Tamás
If I'm right then the time is always used to determine if the file is modified. The timestamp of the file is compared to the timestamp saved in the Entries file. But if you didn't change the file, you only "touch" it and try to commit then the file will not be really commited. Tamas Annette

Re: Another time question

2001-03-20 Thread Larry Jones
Annette Waters writes: Could you please explain how the time is used by CVS. Is it used to determine if a file has changed? Or, does it always look at the contents of the files to determine changes? CVS looks at the timestamp first; if it hasn't changed, then CVS assumes that the file

Re: pserver question

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Ajamian
Jari Aalto+usenet wrote: * Thu 2001-03-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Ajamian) gnu.cvs.help * | Ceartainly that will encrypt the password for you, but the cvspwd | utility I created will fully manage the passwd and readers files for | you, allowing you to add and remove users, set them to

Re: CVS novice question

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a question for all CVS gurus. We have a soft. dev. project with development on Window as well as Solaris. I need to create a diff file which i can use to "patch" it on Solaris. I have added new files to project (on

Re: CVS novice question

2001-03-02 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: The work around, if you're not daring enough to grab a dev version of Oh, and if you are daring enough to install the dev version, it has to be installed on the server end for the fix to work. Maybe on the server client end, but I think this one was server only.

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: pserver question

2001-03-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Peter Ajamian wrote: The passwords are not stored plain text in the passwd file, they have to be encrypted with the crypt() function. There's a utility available that I just finished work on this past week which will maintain the passwd and readers files for you automatically (it works

Re: pserver question

2001-03-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:38:16AM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: Peter Ajamian wrote: There's a utility available that I just finished work on this past week which will maintain the passwd and readers files for you automatically (it works similar to the regular Unix passwd program). I

Re: pserver question

2001-03-01 Thread Peter Ajamian
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Peter Ajamian wrote: The passwords are not stored plain text in the passwd file, they have to be encrypted with the crypt() function. There's a utility available that I just finished work on this past week which will maintain the passwd and readers files for

Question about modules specification

2001-02-28 Thread Dino Valente
I'm encountering a pretty strange problem when defining a module in conjunction with checkout and export. I have the following directory structure: dir1 dir2 file4 file1 file2 file3 I define the module as follows: finalProductdir1 dir2

Re: Question about modules specification

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Jones
Dino Valente writes: If I "checkout" this module then it works as expected. However, if I "export" this module, dir2 will contain my whole repository (eg CVSROOT dir and other root directories from the repository). I found the problem only occurs if I mix directories and files in the

Re: Question about modules specification

2001-02-28 Thread Dino Valente
At 04:45 PM 2/28/2001 -0500, Larry Jones wrote: Dino Valente writes: If I "checkout" this module then it works as expected. However, if I "export" this module, dir2 will contain my whole repository (eg CVSROOT dir and other root directories from the repository). I found the problem

kerberos question

2001-02-21 Thread Tracy Brown
I'm running the MIT distribution of Kerberos v5-1.2.1 and I've compiled the cvs server/client with gssapi support. I believe that my inetd.conf and services files are in order - they're attempting to run cvs with the gserver option. I'm timing out when attempting to connect to the cvs server.

directory structure question

2001-02-16 Thread yuchan_kim
This is more of a organization question, rather CVS itself. On Unix environment, when you check out CVS project directory structure, all the files in the directories can be linked to a larger working directory where you can do your build and code. But when you are ready to check in the code

Re: CVS Help me please Question

2001-02-15 Thread Derek R. Price
). There's a copy on line here: http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/index.html . The alternative is: to copy everything, add and remove the appropriate files individually, then commit, and this will wipe out any local changes. Derek -- Hamlet: To be or not to be - that is the question; Whether

CVS Help me please Question

2001-02-14 Thread Laura Gordon
Hello ! Thank you ! I am using CVS as a storage/diff tool rather than a development tool at the direction of my customer. I perform CM on a 2 million lines of code project which is maintained by a separate company. The entire project falls under one directory, I will call the directory PROJECT

: a question

2001-02-11 Thread Liying Shen
Title: ת·¢: a question hi, I am cvs user. i am using WinCvs vertion 1.0.6. I met some problems now , i hope you would help me. 1. I added a file by cvs and the file's status is file,but after commiting it the file's status became binary. How to solve this. 2. I want to add a file

another question about ^M filtering

2001-02-08 Thread François Delahaye
We are using a CVS server on Linux with clients on Windows NT and Linux. For some reasons that would be pretty long to explain here, we would like CVS not to remove ^Mwhen importing files to the repository from a Windows Client ( and also not to add ^M when exporting files from the

Re: Too Frequently Asked Question of info-cvs mailing list

2001-02-02 Thread Alexey Mahotkin
I'm answering to both of you :) "LS" == Laine Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LS I've taken Jerry Nairn's vss2cvs.pl script, which you have on your LS website, and enhanced it quite a bit. It is now available at LShttp://www.laine.org/cvs/vss2cvs "CH" == Curt Hagenlocher [EMAIL

Re: Too Frequently Asked Question of info-cvs mailing list

2001-01-29 Thread Laine Stump
Alexey Mahotkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Q: I have a large MS Visual SourceSafe repository. How could I convert it to use it from CVS? A: All scripts for that purpose that have ever appeared on info-cvs are collected here: http://alexm.here.ru/cvs-nserver/download/contrib/vss-to-cvs/

Re: Too Frequently Asked Question of info-cvs mailing list

2001-01-29 Thread Anders Knudsen
This may be worth putting into the FAQ (I leave it up to you.): If you are using xinetd you can use the "passenv" attribute. "man xinetd.conf" explains this attribute. FYI, following is my cvspserver file for xinetd. It works great, and I avoid the $HOME problem. By putting nothing for "passenv"

Re: [announce] Too Frequently Question of info-cvs mailing list

2001-01-28 Thread Larry Jones
Alexey Mahotkin writes: Comments? Contributions? Larry, Derek, you should at least emit a sigh of relief -- you will no more have to answer The Question again and again. Yes we will -- The Question is already answered in the manual, but people don't bother to read the manual (or FAQs

Re: Too Frequently Asked Question of info-cvs mailing list

2001-01-28 Thread Larry Jones
Alexey Mahotkin writes: A: Workaround: You could create small .sh-file: That may not work -- the problem might well be that there's no -f global option on the pserver line in inetd.conf rather than that $HOME is set in the environment. This is caused by misfeature in CVS. :pserver: does

Too Frequently Asked Question of info-cvs mailing list

2001-01-27 Thread Alexey Mahotkin
TOO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS OF INFO-CVS MAILING LIST Copyright (C) 2001 Alexey Mahotkin and respectful contributors Maintainer: Alexey Mahotkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://alexm.here.ru/cvs/info-cvs-faq Revision: $Id: info-cvs-faq,v 1.1 2001/01/27 16:42:24 alexm Exp $ 0.

[announce] Too Frequently Question of info-cvs mailing list

2001-01-27 Thread Alexey Mahotkin
mments? Contributions? Larry, Derek, you should at least emit a sigh of relief -- you will no more have to answer The Question again and again. --alexm ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: [announce] Too Frequently Question of info-cvs mailing list

2001-01-27 Thread Gerhard Sittig
et deleted for "I've read it before, why should I do it again?". Larry, Derek, you should at least emit a sigh of relief -- you will no more have to answer The Question again and again. Isn't Derek continuously posting links to an *existing* FAQ? It obviously would be better to f

Re: Question on disabling automatic merges

2001-01-25 Thread Rex_Jolliff
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Re: Question on disabling automatic merges

2001-01-25 Thread Larry Jones
Teala Spitzbarth writes: Is there anyway to disable the automatic merge on checkin under CVS? There is no automatic merge on checkin -- if a developer tries to commit an out-of-date file, they get an error message telling them to do an update first. It's the update that does the automatic

cvs watch question

2001-01-25 Thread Howard Zhou
I did cvs watch on -R directoreis. It made existing files read only when I do an update however it still gives write permission to a newly added file. What am I missing? Howard ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mkmodules question

2001-01-24 Thread terryh
Hi, If we check out modules with 'cvs co modules' and commit it back in, we get the following error message: cvs commit: Rebuilding administrative file database cvs commit: Executing ''mkmodules' '/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/babar/repo/CVSROOT'' cvs commit: cannot exec mkmodules: No

Question on disabling automatic merges

2001-01-24 Thread Teala Spitzbarth
Hi Folks, Is there anyway to disable the automatic merge on checkin under CVS? I.e. to force that if a developer tries to checkin a file from a working copy that is outdated - they get an error message? I can see that if you admin files with the -m option, it will be disabled, but this requires

Re: mkmodules question

2001-01-24 Thread terryh
PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mkmodules question Hi, If we check out modules with 'cvs co modules' and commit it back in, we get the following error message: cvs commit: Rebuilding administrative file database

Re: Question on disabling automatic merges

2001-01-24 Thread Stephen Rasku
Tealla Spitzbarth writes: Hi Folks, Is there anyway to disable the automatic merge on checkin under CVS? I.e. to force that if a developer tries to checkin a file from a working copy that is outdated - they get an error message? CVS will currently generate an "Up-to-date check" error message

Beginner question

2001-01-23 Thread Leonardo Pasta
Hi group, We want start to use CVS as a repository to our source-codes, but I dont know what is the best client for accessing from windows stations (the wincvs.org appear to be down) nor the procedures at the server to configure access from a windows client. Can someone give me a light on it?

Question about the command-line for committing

2001-01-11 Thread Reinstein, Shlomo
cify (on the command-line) different log messages for different directories? While this question seems to be irrelevant (why would a user want to specify different log messages to different directories through the command-line?), I am interested in this for testing purposes -- I have set up so

Re: Question about the command-line for committing

2001-01-11 Thread Rob
ssages for different directories? While this question seems to be irrelevant (why would a user want to specify different log messages to different directories through the command-line?), I am interested in this for testing purposes -- I have set up some scripts to handle commit commands us

RE: Question about the command-line for committing

2001-01-11 Thread Reinstein, Shlomo
to commit several directories with different log messages. Thanks, Shlomo -Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:25 AM To: Reinstein, Shlomo Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Question about the command-line for committing H

Re: Question about the command-line for committing

2001-01-11 Thread Rob
Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:25 AM To: Reinstein, Shlomo Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Question about the command-line for committing Hello, You can specify a path/filename as well. i.e. cvs commit -m &q

Re: Question about the command-line for committing

2001-01-11 Thread Derek R. Price
"Reinstein, Shlomo" wrote: collected information, then deletes the temporary files. For this reason, I would like the same commit command to be able to commit several directories with different log messages. CVS won't do that right now. Why don't you want your script to do a 'cvs ci -l -m"a

Re: Question about the command-line for committing

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Sander
ifying a log message on the command-line instead of interactively using an editor. But what happens when the commit is recursive and there are files in other directories that will be committed? Is there a way to specify (on the command-line) different log messages for different directories? While

Re: A Question

2001-01-10 Thread Derek R. Price
Manish Koolwal wrote: Hi all! I am new to CVS and the UNIX environment. We are currently operating from 2 locations - India and US. The latest checked out build in the US office is ftpied to us in India. We at our end are required to put it in CVS and keep on updating it with the new

Re: A Question

2001-01-10 Thread Noel L Yap
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: A Question Hi all! I am new to CVS and the UNIX environment. We are currently operating from 2 locations - India and US. The latest checked out build in the US office is ftpied to us in India. We at our end are required to put it in CVS and keep

Re: A Question

2001-01-10 Thread Frode Nilsen
re ftp'ing or rsync'ing or whatever. The CVS way to get around this is to have one and only one repository. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.01.10 00:41:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: A Question Hi all! I am new to CVS and the UNIX environment. We are currently

RE: A Question

2001-01-10 Thread Dipl.-Inf. Guus Leeuw jr.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frode Nilsen Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:08 PM Agreed that this sound like a "lame" strategy, but aren't this what import is supposed solve ? Nope. Import is there to track of *third* party software, not

question

2001-01-09 Thread twoller
i just did a post. but i also just noticed that the last date in this group is from 12-11-2000. rather old. is this group active? will my post get posted? thanks for any info, i am new to CVS too... tom ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question

2001-01-09 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just did a post. but i also just noticed that the last date in this group is from 12-11-2000. rather old. is this group active? will my post get posted? thanks for any info, i am new to CVS too... You're probably using egroups to subscribe. I believe their

Re: question about :local: access to repository on Windows box (USERNAME -- ?)

2001-01-09 Thread Michael Peck
an answer to one important question: how one can log in with personal user_name to the `:local:' repository. It's so important, because we will keep the repository under Windows (not on UNIX box). If you have any idea or a "how to" link, write me, please. Thank you Best regards,

Re: question about :local: access to repository on Windows box (USERNAME -- ?)

2001-01-09 Thread Bill Whiting
an answer to one important question: how one can log in with personal user_name to the `:local:' repository. It's so important, because we will keep the repository under Windows (not on UNIX box). If you have any idea or a "how to" link, write me, please. Thank you

Re: question about :local: access to repository on Windows box (USERNAME -- ?)

2001-01-09 Thread Derek R. Price
Bill Whiting wrote: True, but if there are file permissions (there won't be for Win3.11, but will be for WinNT, if it's Win9x, then I think it's possible to circumvent any local file permissions), then the access to the CVS repository is based on the file permissions. That's what groups

A Question

2001-01-09 Thread Manish Koolwal
Hi all! I am new to CVS and the UNIX environment. We are currently operating from 2 locations - India and US. The latest checked out build in the US office is ftpied to us in India. We at our end are required to put it in CVS and keep on updating it with the new builds received. We have

Re: Merge question

2001-01-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Mike Chartier wrote: Graphically, this is how things look (in my mind): Module | | | + - Tagged "Software_1.0" |\ | \ | \ |\ | | | | - Tagged "Software_1.0_Update_1" | | + - Tagged "Software_1.1"

Re: Modules question

2001-01-08 Thread Larry Jones
Mike Chartier writes: When I do a cvs update from the MyModule directory it gets all the files in dir_1 and dir_2, not just the ones specified in the module definition. That only happens if you specify the -d option to update. If you're not specifying it explicitly, check your

Re: Merging Question

2000-12-22 Thread Tony Byrne
However, the crux of my problem was that whenever I've been importing their new changes into a module, I _never_ get a conflict message. This is important, because in most cases I _know_ a file has changed (usually index.htm). Maybe I'm picking you up wrong in your description of the problem,

Re: Merging Question

2000-12-22 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Aha! That makes considerably more sense than what I was trying to figure out on my own. Since changes generally haven't been made to the local repository copies, there have been no conflicts, but the Vendor history _is_ being kept. Thanks so much for your answer - I feel a lot better about how

Re: Merging Question

2000-12-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:13:08AM -0600, Alexander Kamilewicz wrote: However, the crux of my problem was that whenever I've been importing their new changes into a module, I _never_ get a conflict message. This is important, because in most cases I _know_ a file has changed (usually

Re: Merging Question

2000-12-22 Thread Larry Jones
Alexander Kamilewicz writes: I've read all about Vendor branches in Karl Fogel's book and in the Cederqvist and thought I knew what I was getting in to. However, the crux of my problem was that whenever I've been importing their new changes into a module, I _never_ get a conflict message.

Re: winCVS question

2000-12-21 Thread Harald Kucharek
a system(); call to the right place in the PERL code. On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:15:26PM -0500, Saima Iqbal wrote: Hi, I work for a Telcordia, and we have recently started using CVS for version control purposes. I had a question regarding the use of a unix script via winCVS

Re: winCVS question

2000-12-21 Thread Robert Bresner
I've never used WinCVS, so cannot answer your question directly Saima Iqbal wrote: The aim is to refrain from allowing the users to tag source in the whole tree at random. If that is indeed your goal then perhaps all you want to do is add a line to the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/taginfo file

Re: winCVS question

2000-12-20 Thread Saima Iqbal
bcc: Saima Iqbal/Telcordia) Subject: winCVS question Hi, I work for a Telcordia, and we have recently started using CVS for version control purposes. I had a question regarding the use of a unix script via winCVS. I've developed a script that enables the user to control t

Re: winCVS question

2000-12-20 Thread Rob
, I work for a Telcordia, and we have recently started using CVS for version control purposes. I had a question regarding the use of a unix script via winCVS. I've developed a script that enables the user to control the tagging of a whole tree, by running a shell executable script

question about cvs log

2000-12-11 Thread Sean Noonan
relative newbie, please be gentle. I want to use cvs log (and then cvs2cl.pl) to generate ChangeLogs between two tags so I can see exactly what was worked on between these two tags (ultimate goal is to automatically create build notes). I did: cvs co -P -A MY_MODULE then, cvs log -N

CVS question

2000-12-07 Thread Vinh Pham
Hi, For example, if there are 2 persons working on a project. If one person add a file or directory, how can the other person know that a new file or directory is added? Of course if the second person does an update (-d) , he or she will get that file/directory but are there any way to

Re: CVS question

2000-12-07 Thread Laird Nelson
Vinh Pham wrote: Hi, For example, if there are 2 persons working on a project. If one person add a file or directory, how can the other person know that a new file or directory is added? Of course if the second person does an update (-d) , he or she will get that file/directory but

RE: CVS question

2000-12-07 Thread Vinh Pham
/2000 03:46:34 PM To: Vinh Pham/Fishkill/IBM@IBMUS cc: Subject: RE: CVS question You can add cvs watch on files which you are intrestead in. Raghu K Software Engineer Pretzel Logic Sofware Inc. Cupertino, California email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 408-366-9010 extn 338 -Original

Re: CVS question

2000-12-07 Thread David H. Thornley
Vinh Pham wrote: That's a good idea. Unfortunately, that means we have to get into the whole cvs watch on/off, cvs edit things. For me, it maybe OK but most of my co-workers are not software-oriented. Adding that level of complexity may not work well for them. I've been advising

question about branching

2000-12-01 Thread Largent, Jim
I am very familiar with RCS and have just started using CVS and I have a question about branching. In RCS I could check out a previous version of a file, change it and check it back in. RCS would create a branch off the version that I checked out. When I tried to do this with CVS, it wouldn't

Re: question about branching

2000-12-01 Thread Stephen Rasku
Jim Largent wrote: I am very familiar with RCS and have just started using CVS and I have a question about branching. In RCS I could check out a previous version of a file, change it and check it back in. RCS would create a branch off the version that I checked out. When I tried to do

pserver timeout question

2000-11-30 Thread cqgscm
Background: -WinCVS connected to Linux CVS repository using pserver. -TCL script created to checkin and tag files versus 2 operations. Process works great with up to 40 files. After that the operation is aborted and pserver goes into it's timeout mode (10 minutes). Is there a setting

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