Re: sharing cvs root?

2002-03-14 Thread Pierre Asselin
Hanser, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My boss seems to think it would be a good idea to share our CVS root so we can easily browse it. I don't think this is a good idea... can anyone give me the pro's or con's of doing this? If it's read-only, there wouldn't be much harm... We have our cvs

sharing cvs root?

2002-03-13 Thread Hanser, Kevin
My boss seems to think it would be a good idea to share our CVS root so we can easily browse it. I don't think this is a good idea... can anyone give me the pro's or con's of doing this? We have our cvs repository located on a linux box, and are using winCVS to do our checkouts/updates/commits,

Re: sharing cvs root?

2002-03-13 Thread Matt Riechers
Hanser, Kevin wrote: My boss seems to think it would be a good idea to share our CVS root so we can easily browse it. I don't think this is a good idea... can anyone give me the pro's or con's of doing this? The repository root ($CVSROOT) is useless for browsing since you're looking at

RE: sharing cvs root?

2002-03-13 Thread Mirco Bova
it in a few minutes two days ago. Jcvslet is a servlet so you'll need a servlet container like tomcat (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html) to run it. Cheers, Mirco From: Hanser, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sharing cvs root? Date: Wed, 13 Mar

RE: sharing cvs root?

2002-03-13 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
They want to actually be in the repository? No, that is a bad idea. You should explain to your boss the reason for a source code repository. If that is the case, get them ViewCVS http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/ and CVSgraph (link is on viewcvs site). They will get used to it. In the

Re: sharing cvs root?

2002-03-13 Thread James Knowles
My boss seems to think it would be a good idea to share our CVS root He is ignorant. Keep him away! can anyone give me the pro's or con's of doing this? No pros, lots of cons. Does he also like to see raw database files instead of using a database client? No. Does he also like to see