Re: CVS Reporting

2001-11-30 Thread Eric Siegerman
-cvs/2001-November/022009.html -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The world has been attacked. The world must respond ... [but] we must be guided by a commitment to do what works in the long run, not by what makes us feel better in the short run. - Jean C

Re: corrupt binary files (with -kb)

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
nding client and a working one. Differences might be instructive. Good luck. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The world has been attacked. The world must respond ... [but] we must be guided by a commitment to do what works in the long run, not by what make

Re: meaning of "P"?

2001-12-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
t falls back to a straight copy ("U"). -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The world has been attacked. The world must respond ... [but] we must be guided by a commitment to do what works in the long run, not by what makes us feel better in

Re: cvsignore-ing everything but .cvsignore

2001-12-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
in the directory being imported. I don't know whether the corresponding .cvsignore,v in the repo has any effect. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The world has been attacked. The world must respond ... [but] we must be guided by a c

Re: cvs update -C question

2001-12-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
ories). > 2. Is there another way I can do the same thing? mv file.txt file.txt.bak (or just "rm file.txt") cvs update file.txt -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The world has been attacked. The world must respond ... [but] we

Re: Possible modifications to CVS.

2001-12-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
require significant rewriting. I agree; this'd be really nice to have, and it's not *impossible*. But I'm not holding my breath... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to r

Re: Administrative database file protection problem

2001-12-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
user is in the "cvs" group, even though the NFS client does. > I notice that when the database is rebuilt (either by commit or init), all > the database file protections are reset to -r--r--r--. Shouldn't be a problem, if the group memberships are correct. -- | | /\ |-_

Re: checkout fails to put files in working directory

2001-12-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
nt! So many bugs have been fixed that I couldn't begin to guess whether you're tripping across one of them. Upgrade to 1.11.1p1. CVS is pretty easy to build from source, so don't let the lack of an RPM stop you. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.

Re: Help someone removed the branch tag script needed

2001-12-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
13-patch module Test it first on a copy of the repo! -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMA

Re: diff after update

2001-12-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
, it shows both sets of changes together -- the 1.1->1.2 changes and the user's uncommitted ones. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine __

Re: Help someone removed the branch tag script needed

2001-12-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
store, this plan might be slower than figuring out the revision numbers by reading the entrails of the live ,v files; but it seems easier and less error-prone. Good luck! -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ri

Re: conflict algorithm

2002-01-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
iff (it's compiled bodily into the "cvs" executable). I can't remember whether this was changed before or after 1.11. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye M

Re: How to commit preserving dates?

2002-01-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
; at co and export) should coincide with the commitment date, but > it should be easy to manipulate (both by > ci and by import). Interesting idea; I like it, by analogy with UNIX's mtime and ctime timestamps. But it would indeed require extensions to the file format, so I don't

Re: Timestamp handling in checkout vs update

2002-01-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
ly-fetched changes NOT included in the build can be more of one! The checkout behaviour is because partial makes aren't (presumably) an issue on an initial checkout, and so it's (presumably) safe to set the files' timestamps to something more useful to humans. -- | | /\ |-_|/

Re: How "cvs get" works

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
l. Which port you need to open up in your firewall thus depends on the access method you choose. SSH is generally considered to be the safest choice. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - M

Re: Get list of modified files?

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:39:44PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > is there a way to get a list of modified files? I've > tried "cvs -n commit", Close it's "cvs -n update". Make it "-nq" to suppress the per-directory "Updating" messag

Re: cvs tag problem: how to lose the tip and go with the contents of a branch

2002-01-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
completely clobbering what was previously on the trunk. If that's correct, look in the archives for a message I posted on 2-Feb-2001 with the subject "Re: Easiest way to move a branch to the trunk". That contains detailed instructions. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto,

Re: revision number less than 1.1

2002-01-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
d, but instead as part of your "make release" procedure. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___ Info-cvs mailing li

Re: Can't commit XML file into CVS

2002-01-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
mit ..." to get a trace of the interaction between the client and server. That might help you to diagnose the problem. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___

Re: conflict

2002-01-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
quot; the Windows line endings there - commit - now try the merge again > Is there a way (when there is a conflict) to have white space ignored during > a merge? Not that I know of. Good luck! -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One

Re: tag a folder

2002-01-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:08:30PM -0800, Lu, Peter wrote: > Is it possible to tag a folder, instead of the whole repository? Sure: cvs tag my-tag-name folder But not, it would seem, with rtag instead of tag... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.

Re: What is the average time spent installing a CVS 100% operational?

2002-01-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
can view their work in a browser, check the links, etc., before committing it. But that in turn means *scrupulously* avoiding absolute URLs to other objects within the project, since those wouldn't point to your private copies of the objects, but rather back to the production server. -- | |

Re: Repository access question...

2002-01-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
ody's umask to 2, i.e. files and directories will be world-readable, and group-writable. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___

Re: Repository access question...

2002-01-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:26:45PM -0500, Douglas Finkle wrote: > Close, but I do not completely agree: You're right! I misread the requirements. Sorry. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - M

Re: Major revision number compatibility?

2002-01-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
e "problem", since CVS provides a better mechanism anyway, i.e. tags. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___ Info-cvs ma

Re: URGENT: Initial revision number for CVS.

2002-01-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
If you don't > like them, tough; they're not for you, so you don't get a say. The other problem (as I mentioned on the other concurrent thread about this) is that CVS *does* give you the semblance of a say, i.e. "-r" options on commands like "add" and "com

Re: URGENT: Initial revision number for CVS.

2002-01-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
esn't work *with* any release of CVS, > it works *against* it. And in any case, discussions of *standard* CVS (which threads on this list usually tend to be, unless labelled otherwise) aren't likely to pay too much attention to it. It is an unofficial patch, after all. -- |

Re: cvs add from a different directory

2002-01-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
answer from "CVS *should not* do this". -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: cvswrappers and -f/-t

2002-02-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
ot;1.10" version. One for which I do not have the > source. The GNU folks still have it available: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/non-gnu/cvs/cvs-1.10.tar.gz Good luck! -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall.

Re: branch deleted but still needed

2002-02-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
t from the above into a humongous shell script full of "cvs admin -n" commands; and let that rip (after making another backup of the live repo, of course!). -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | /

Re: how to change a rev number

2002-02-06 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:56:14AM -0500, Shane McDaniel wrote: > How do I go > about changing the rev number in the DB? Is there an easier way than > checking the rev out, removing it from the DB and putting it back with the > new rev? Nope; that's the only way. -- | | /

Re: cvs advice

2002-02-06 Thread Eric Siegerman
from them, without consequence. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org

Re: Keyword Substitution in Scripts

2002-02-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
other issue. Educate the programmer; or disable keyword substitution, perhaps only for that file. Those are the only two choices. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Th

Re: Working directory & laptop?

2002-02-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
of copying your desktop sandbox, do a fresh checkout directly onto the laptop; then you can commit those changes independently of your work on the desktop machine. The standard CVS multiuser thing; it's just that both users happen to be you :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman

Re: trouble with pserver : inetd go down for ten minutes !

2002-02-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
se requests are legitimate, but inetd can't know that. With some inetd's (perhaps all?), you can configure the threshold at which it cuts off service. See its man page for details. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring t

Re: trading files without ",v" suffix

2002-02-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
ironment variable to "-x/,v" does not > have an effect with cvs. > I wouldn't expect CVS to recognize those files. CVS doesn't have an option corresponding to RCS's -x, let alone with that spelling. Nor does CVS honour RCSINIT. Why do you need the revision files n

Re: Readonly

2002-02-13 Thread Eric Siegerman
e is completely ignored. From src/main.c: if (getenv (CVSREAD_ENV) != NULL) cvswrite = 0; -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___

Re: Readonly

2002-02-13 Thread Eric Siegerman
modules file. > cvs version 1.11. Try upgrading that too, on both client and server. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / One ring to rule the mall. - Movie review headline, eye Magazine ___

Re: CVSROOT folder and files under projects missing!!!

2000-08-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
e in the directory from which it was run. Eg. the file which should be extracted to: jrun/jsm-default/services/jws/htdocs/jsp/apidocs/com.livesoftware.jrun.plugins.jsp.JSPAbortException.html instead gets put in: ./com.livesoftware.jrun.plu

Re: cvs init: cannot exec ci: No such file or directory

2000-08-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
ome.org/pub/cvs-1.10.8/cvs-1.10.8.tar.gz -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft -- but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. - Chris Garrigues

Re: Minor client/server bug

2000-08-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
nt only > needs to know things it can be commanded to do directly, e.g. merge files, set >sticky tags, or > remove an entry, leading to clients which require upgrades less frequently despite >possibly > frequent server upgrades. Agreed. Having the client intuit when a message is necessary, or what its contents should be, is ugly, fragile, and hard to extend. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft -- but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. - Chris Garrigues

Re: File timestamp after commit.

2000-08-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
n as your posting, that could explain some things. (See http://sandbox.xerox.com/stewart/tzconvert.cgi or www.mylocaltime.com -- but, ironically, the latter's idea of the current time is *way* off.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody

Re: Antigen found =*.pl file

2000-08-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
; definitions to detect and clean Viruses. > -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft -- but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. - Chris Garrigues

Re: Entries Files with a Tag line item prevents Commit --WHY ???

2000-09-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
ehaviour it does in the latter case is an annoying side-effect.) > I tried to commit the file & got the eof from server error, see above > messages, but there were no above messages The lack of message is presumably a bug. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.

Re: What is Cederqvist?

2000-09-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
e finally confirm my theory that "The Cederqvist" and cvs.info are one and the same -- and I've been using CVS since version 1.2 or 1.3. Technical terminology is one thing; jargon for its own sake risks the charge of willful obscurantism. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Sieger

Re: [Info-cvs] CVS for MVS: Configure question

2000-09-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
from Communications Security might be more > appropriate. It just uses uname, $host and $target (there's some cross-compiling > code at the beginning of the document to set those too) to set some lib and > compiler variables. See the "Manual Configuration" section of the Au

Re: "Missing expected branches" ?

2000-10-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
, I rechecked out the whole area... > and now everything works again.. > > Ok. What was that? > > ___ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerm

Re: CVS diff generating unuseable patches ?

2000-10-30 Thread Eric Siegerman
erwise), it must have been intended to fix something else. Any idea what? -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft -- but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. - Chris Garrigues

Re: Starting New Repository - Vendor Branch - Bug/Feature? (was: CVS IMPORT Help)

2000-10-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
version of his files, it will be applied to > the trunk and not the vendor branch. Depends what the working version consists of. In the example cases above, suppose you type "cvs update -A; cvs tag mytag". That tag will be applied as follows: configure.in1.4 NEWS

Re: CVS Import Error

2000-11-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
borted]: reading pin/6.0/sys/dm_oracle/dm_oracle8i.so: I/O error Doesn't look like a CVS problem to me. This command: cp pin/6.0/sys/dm_oracle/dm_oracle8i.so /dev/null will probably report the same error, in which case you've got a corrupt filesystem or a bad block on the disk. --

Bogus address on info-cvs list (was: Mail message not delivered)

2000-11-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
> Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs - End forwarded message - -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody ever got fired for buying Micros

Re: rollback/revert changes?

2000-11-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
r file.c > cvs commit -m "reverting to prev version" file.c Yeah: cvs update -p -rver file.c >file.c cvs commit -m "reverting to prev version" file.c Still a kludge, but a shorter one :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[

Re: CVS access through a firewall

2000-11-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
it's called on your system), put a "Port" directive in the entry for the CVS server. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft -- but they could get fired for relying on Micr

Re: CVS access through a firewall

2000-11-24 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:55:15AM -0800, Stephen Rasku wrote: > Eric Siegerman wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:21:08AM -0800, Stephen Rasku wrote: > >> Is it possible to configure the CVS client to talk to a > >> different port than the default ss

Re: Changing the log message

2000-11-28 Thread Eric Siegerman
cvs admin -mr1.2:"New message" file.c > > > Thanks much for your help and time. > > Olaf > > > > ___ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs -

Re: Multiple developers in one work area

2000-12-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
ething that works over IP -- a network-aware Java debugger, a networked game, or whatever -- they don't have to bug the sysadmin for a free port number. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft -- but the

Re: Removed a file, now cannot add it back...

2000-12-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
c # if it doesn't already exist mv standalonegeneva.lnp,v Attic/standalonegeneva.lnp,v -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft -- but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft

Re: Vendor branches, tracking sources and creating patches

2000-12-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
and tag cvs commit cvs tag GCC_3_0_merged_preliminary # Do some testing; fix any bugs you find that were # introduced by the merge # Decide that the merge is complete cvs tag GCC_3_0_merged Good luck. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, To

Re: Merging Question

2000-12-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
release1 But that loses your local patches to release1. What you probably wanted was: cvs update -r release1-preupdate# Roll back to release1, plus local patches This is why we did step 3.3. > This message is intended only for the use of

Re: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation

2001-01-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
g for any ,v file which contains the new-style metadata (for compatibility, the old flag should be honoured for files without new-style metadata). -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been looking at the stars all your li

Re: CVS Performance

2001-01-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
on't want to give accounts to the developers, the admin can do a checkout or two for testing -- or even commits, on a scratch copy of the repository.) Good luck. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been looking at the

Re: Importing vendor update without 1.1.1 branch

2001-01-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
d trunk revisions to them. > Are there tools that can extract all the diffs and comments at each > commit and "replay" them into a new tree to rebuild the history? Not that I know of. There sure have been times I've wanted one... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Sie

Re: Importing vendor update without 1.1.1 branch

2001-01-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:01:49AM +, Kenn Humborg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 04:12:23PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: > > I've scrambled enough repositories that I've come to think of > > importing as a dangerous operation > > Unfortunately, I was still u

Re: Help attic - dead revisions

2001-01-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
member if you can specify a single file to > update when it's not present locally. This does indeed work. (As it happens, I was doing this a couple of days ago, using CVS 1.10.8.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You

Re: cvs checkout merging with non-cvs source

2001-01-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
would recurse through and add > the two new files(newfile.pm and new-shared-file.pm) and update the two > modified files(catalog.pm and Shared.pm). All other files it would leave > alone. It would also add the necessary CVS directories so that we could do > add's and commit&#

Re: listing symbolic links recursively, with dir listing

2001-01-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
etty standard, but people (especially GNU) extend it in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been looking at the stars all your life: Is there anything in astrology? Arthur C. Clarke: It's utter nonsense.

Re: Spaces added ... and line endings in general

2001-01-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
y t hr ee -L l l 6c616d61 l am a Here's the cleartext: The Lama by Ogden Nash A one-L lama he's a priest A two-L llama he's a beast And I would bet a silk pajama There isn't any three-L lllama

Re: [To CVS-Dev] CVS Directory Order and sanity.sh

2001-01-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
7; is 0xC1). A quick grep for "sort" in the CVS 1.11 sources turns up at least three functions that need changing: history.c:sort_order modules.c:sort_order hash.c:fsortcmp Solaris provides strcoll() and strxfrm() to do locale-based string comparisons, but I have

Re: 'cvs update' skipping directories

2001-01-30 Thread Eric Siegerman
s some people (but not everyone) has "-d" in their .cvsrc's. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been looking at the stars all your life: Is there anything in astrology? Arthur

Re: Easiest way to move a branch to the trunk

2001-02-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
files you've deleted in development, ie. the ones in the list you made above (though of course you'll want to verify that none of them were deleted by accident in the distant past :-) - "cvs commit" -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.

wincvs.org -> cvsgui.org

2001-02-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
r the users of MacCvs and gCvs. As it happens, the old name is back now -- but only as a redirect to the new one, so it might not stay around for long. (Gotta like mindit for telling me when wincvs.org reappeared!) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL P

Re: Force CVS to using root to commit files (one way or another)

2001-02-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
esn't, try this version, which supplies the command you want to run as standard input to the "su" command, and thus to the subshell that it spawns: #!/bin/bash echo "tkcvs -dir /usr/src/cvssources; exit" | su matt (You almost certainly don't need the &quo

Re: version control with shared workplace

2001-02-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
rks over IP -- a network-aware Java debugger, a networked game, or whatever -- they don't have to bug the sysadmin for a free port number. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been looking at the stars all your

Re: version control with shared workplace

2001-02-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
pecific, so you want those shared between sandboxes (ie. cvs-controlled, like the source code). So you should ideally provide for both shared and local properties. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been

Re: cvs and jbuilder

2001-02-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
tever it's called). When that need arises, it'll be nice to have the structure in place so you can just "cvs add" the directories in question. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been looking at the st

Re: Does Entries.Log ever contain files, or just directories ?

2001-02-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
st for CVS; this applies pretty much across the board. (Of course, sometimes you have no choice -- but be aware of the risk.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been looking at the stars all your life: Is there anythin

Re: checking out src code from dev repo to release repo.

2001-02-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
key issue.) CVS, of course, doesn't make this distinction -- a "cvs commit" does both things. My suggestion above is precisely an attempt to fake ODE's commit/publish distinction in CVS. > I guess this is a two fold question in that maybe our process is wron

Re: cvs add --new

2001-02-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
would be useful, IMO, would be a way to create a top-level directory in the repository. The trick of doing a "-l" checkout of the root directory is a kludge. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / Interviewer: You've been looking at

Re: One working copy part of two repositories?

2001-02-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
of this, but I've done a subset: working disconnected without bothering to create a REPOS-WORK, ie. with my working sources not CVS-controlled. This subset of the above recipe consisted of the steps flagged with "*" and "?"; on the remote machine, I just worked in the untarre

Re: Terminated with fatal signal 11

2001-02-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
11 > > You're running with PreservePermissions enabled. The > PreservePermissions code is so buggy that it has been disabled by > default in recent releases of CVS; you should not use it. Which also suggests that you're not running a recent release. If not, consider upgrading

Re: One working copy part of two repositories?

2001-02-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
asier! See "Tracking third-party sources" in the manual. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. - RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source) __

Re: command help

2001-02-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:59:08PM -0500, ari gold wrote: > is there a CVS command that will show me files that are in CVS, but that > i've deleted locally? "cvs -nq update" -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With suf

Re: Setting UP CVS

2001-02-26 Thread Eric Siegerman
4096 Feb 19 13:10 .. > drwxrwsr-x 3 root cvs 4096 Feb 15 08:46 CVSROOT > drwxrwsr-x 3 cvs cvs 4096 Feb 15 16:20 TextBot > drwxr-sr-x 4 cvs cvs 4096 Feb 23 08:01 gridback > drwxr-sr-x 5 cvs cvs 4096 Feb 22 16:54

Re: Q: Export/Import for multiple platforms

2001-02-27 Thread Eric Siegerman
the merge will be trivial.) My variant saves you having to import (at the expense of some other commands), but doesn't save you having to merge -- that part you just can't get around. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With sufficie

Re: Updating the default cvsignore list

2001-03-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
propriate systems; also consider which of the current entries should be made system-dependent - *.dvi should go the same way as *.info*, whichever way that is -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: moving repo

2001-03-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
nsparently by changing the appropriate pointer(s). Of course you can invent your own conventions if mine aren't to your taste ... but once you do, stick to them! -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine

Re: Standalone CVS pserver

2001-03-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
mand. As for why it stopped in the first place, I'm afraid I can't help; I've never used pserver. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this

Re: pserver question

2001-03-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
he > > regular Unix passwd program). > > I was always fond of: > > perl -e 'print crypt ("passwd", "st") . "\n"' > > myself. That's fine if you want to give all your CVS users write access to the password file... -- | | /\ |

Re: loginfo file

2001-03-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
w more files than you want it to, but: - depending on the actual pattern, this may never happen in practice - your loginfo script could check for the false positives, and silently ignore them -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With su

Re: How to get "edit -c" working

2001-03-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
mall bit of the schema that has nothing to do with the application itself, but it shouldn't be too intrusive -- a single table is all this should take.) Presumably the "fancy tools" are fancy enough to have user-definable triggers; so make them: - check and set the lock - do the editing

Re: merge/diff

2001-03-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
ges that actually changed anything. (The "no substantive changes" in the log message is what assures me that the output of: cvs diff -r \ -r will be boring.) Good luck! -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTE

Re: CVS/Entries.Backup Error

2001-03-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
te the entire subdirectory? > > Howard > > > > ___ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With suff

Re: DOS EOL pollution in repository

2001-03-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
with DOS EOL's. Sounds like a good thing to do in addition. My suggestions will make life easier for people, but this is what'll enforce your policy. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.

Re: update -jx -jy gives conflict on $Id$

2001-03-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
ly-sticky options. What to call them, though? I'd suggest the easily-remembered rule that -X be a nonsticky version of -x (for all relevent values of x) ... but -D's being sticky gets in the way. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: .cvsignore and directories

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Siegerman
file (or directory) being present in the repo trumps its being listed in .cvsignore. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good ide

Re: Restoring vendor tag

2001-03-13 Thread Eric Siegerman
the name you want to use for the vendor-branch tag) The one for the latest vendor import? cvs tag -rVENDOR RELEASE (Since this isn't the above case, I assume the VENDOR tag still exists :-) For some previous vendor-branch import? You're SOL... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Er

Re: add directory heirarchy

2001-03-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:11:42PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote: > $ find newdir -type f -exec cvs add {} \; $ find newdir \( -type f -o -type d \) -exec cvs add {} \; If you don't add the directories, you can't add the files... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerm

Re: CVS and binary files

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:52:00PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I still need to force cvs NOT to keep version history for some files. .cvsignore -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However

Re: How to avoid propogation of changes

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
cvs update -j1.17 -j1.16 bar.c and cvs update -j1.4 -j1.5 foo.c cvs update -j1.16 -j1.17 bar.c respectively. More work than if it was tagged, but less than doing the whole merge file by file. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: Repository recovery and archiving

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
sitory while you take the incremental backup. See the "Locks" page in the manual. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. - RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source)

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