Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 12-Apr-2001, Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fergus Henderson writes: The reason that this broke things is that `cvs checkout' was checking out inconsistent versions of different files. After the import, some files -- those which we had not modified -- now had revision 1.1.2

Re: cvs repository in a bad state, and cvs seg faults on export of pr

2001-05-03 Thread Martin Tomes
Ryan Grow writes: We are having problems with one of our working areas. The developer told me that he tried to rename several files from being lower case to having a leading upper case letter. I have a Perl script which is run from commitinfo which catches one of the case conflict issues

Silly Unknown Host problem- please help!

2001-05-03 Thread Susan Margulies
Hello, all! I'm over in Taiwan connecting via DSL to a server in California. I mention that only because I was happily connecting via a cable modem and checking my code into CVS, and when I changed technologies, it appears to have broken. Of course, that happens to coincide with our sys admin

delete chages

2001-05-03 Thread Anner Adrian
Hello, I want to make the last tag to the actually code. We made some changes since the last tag. Now we decided to start a new project and now we want that the last tag is now your current code. -- Best regards, Anner Adrian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sub-modules

2001-05-03 Thread David Fuller
In the modules file you can do things like: # set up the inner most modules level3a level3a level3b level3b # level2a also contains the level3 modules level2a level2a level3a level3b level2b level2b # level1 also contains the level2 modules, which contain the level3 modules level1 level1 level2a

cannot commit

2001-05-03 Thread oguz mut
hi I'm using WinCvs on Windows 98 Second Edition and I cannot commit files. How I achieved this is as follows: . some weeks ago I created the repository. . today I added a file. then commited. everything was okey. . then I made some changes and commited again. I still had

I want to change the CVS history file

2001-05-03 Thread Anders Bülow
Hi We use the command cvs history -a -c -D "Time of last report" to generate a report of who committed which files when. But someone "by accident" set the local time on her machine 1 year into the future. Now her commits shows up on every report. I changed all the timestamps on the

RE: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-03 Thread Adam W. Montville
What I found on http://www.xinetd.org/ is the following: service cvspserver { socket_type = stream protocol= tcp wait= no user= root passenv = server =

Questions about your product

2001-05-03 Thread Mark Sweet
Does it have Multiple Version Tracking? Is it accessible by a number of programmers simultaneously? Does it control and record who checked software in and out? Does it check for changes whenever software is checked back in? Does it have topic and development listing link to each project

Directory based Access Control

2001-05-03 Thread Infoman: Martin Kretschmar
Hi, I would like to make use of the standard linux access control for directories, but somehow it doesn't seem to work quite right for me. From Access Control in CVS: Setting the operating system's file permissions of files in the repository is pretty much an all-or-nothing thing.

RE: Questions about your product

2001-05-03 Thread David CM Weber
Someone correct me if I'm wrong Most of this can be gathered from http://www.cvshome.org http://www.cvshome.org -Original Message- From: Mark Sweet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Questions about your product Does it

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Nils Jakobson
I've also encountered this problem, as far as I've verified it looks like this: when I do unconditional checkout, it always does get the latest revision no matter from which branch (like 1.1.1.1 right after import). When I update it updates the main trunk since it _stays_ there by default (?)

RE: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-03 Thread Gianni Mariani
I don't remember my reasoning behind using env = HOME= vs passenv = but a guess is that you specifically want to unset the HOME environment variable. passenv (at another guess) is very restrictive ( passing only the tne variables listed ) and env can explicitly set (or unset i.e. HOME=)

FW: Questions about your product

2001-05-03 Thread David CM Weber
Thanks, Dave Weber Backbone Security, Inc. 570-422-7900 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:16 AM To: David CM Weber Subject: RE: Questions about your product Does it have topic and development listing link

Re: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Adam W. Montville writes: This configuration works wonderfully, although I'm not entirely sure what leaving passenv null actually does. It prevents xinetd from passing *any* environment variables to the server. Not having at least $PATH can be inconvenient, particularly for scripts, but

Renaming a branch

2001-05-03 Thread Jim Harkins
Like an idiot I came up with a branch name that is not only too long and unwieldy, but it no longer accurately reflects it's contents. Is there a good way to rename a branch? The only option I can think of is to create a new branch, populate it with my trunk at time t0, then merge in my crappy

Re: cvs locking and watching...

2001-05-03 Thread Luke Miller
The watch-edit system looks like it should work fine, but I am not able to get it to work. Here is what I tried: first person: cvs co luketest cvs checkout: Updating luketest cvs checkout: Updating luketest/luketest cvs checkout: Updating luketest/luketest/test1 U luketest/luketest/test1/bin1

RE: I want to change the CVS history file

2001-05-03 Thread TTaylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The lines in the history file consist of fields separated by '|' characters. The first field: M3cd13118 indicates the type of operation ('M' is commit from modified file) and the rest of this field is the timestamp of the operation in hex. This

Re: cvs locking and watching...

2001-05-03 Thread Noel L Yap
You can use the edit and commit patches available on SourceForge. If you're using cvs-1.11, I can send you the updated patches. The patches'll allow users to supply options to edit and checkin that'll abort the operation if other edits exist and a valid edit doesn't exist, respectively. This

Re: Renaming a branch

2001-05-03 Thread Laine Stump
Jim Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Like an idiot I came up with a branch name that is not only too long and unwieldy, but it no longer accurately reflects it's contents. Is there a good way to rename a branch? As long as you can prevent other people from accessing the repository while

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, May 3, 2001 at 16:58:14 (+0300), Nils Jakobson wrote: ] Subject: Re: importing vendor branches I've also encountered this problem, as far as I've verified it looks like this: when I do unconditional checkout, it always does get the latest revision no matter from which branch

Re: Directory based Access Control

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Infoman: Martin Kretschmar writes: For test purposes I have two different users, user_rw and user_ro. Both belong to the developers group, but for a specific subdirectory the owner is set to localcvsadmin, the owning group is specialists. user_rw belongs to specialists but user_ro not. The

Re: I want to change the CVS history file

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anders_B=FClow?= writes: How can I change the line: M3cd13118|line|C:\Src2k\BPMain|Src2000/BP/Digitalis/Components/BPLivSelsk= ab|1.40|BPLivSelskab.cpp in the history file in CVSROOT to reflect the correct time? The second character up to the first | (i.e., 3cd13118) is the

Re: pserver problem

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Ajamian
kanakpalli chandrashekhar wrote: thank you larry i used the perl script given in karl fogel book. i entered the password generated by script in cvsroot/passwd file. when i am trying from other machine it is give :fatal error . can u explain me the format . Try the CVSpwd program located

RE: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-03 Thread Noel L Yap
I don't think you understand. You need to install the patches. Have you done this? Once the patches are installed, developers must use 'cvs edit -c' and 'cvs ci -c' (have them all put these options in their .cvsrc files). Noel |+--- ||

Windows 2000 and .cvs

2001-05-03 Thread Krulj, Kornelija
Hello, i would like to install .cvs but I am not sure if 95/NT version is compatibile with Windows 2000. I would appretiate any help with that subject. Thank you for your time, Kornelija Kornelija Krulj Programmer / Analyst Netswitch- Internet Solutions Phone: (08041) 809874 Germany

Re: Windows 2000 and .cvs

2001-05-03 Thread Dennis Jones
Yes, the Windows version of CVS runs fine on 2000. - Dennis - Original Message - From: Krulj, Kornelija [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: Windows 2000 and .cvs Hello, i would like to install .cvs but I am not sure if 95/NT version

Running cvs-1.11.1p1 on server and cvs-1.11 on clients

2001-05-03 Thread Chuck . Irvine
I'm considering updating our server to cvs-1.11.1p1, but it will be very inconvenient to update all of our cvs clients that are at v1.11. Can anyone tell me whether running 1.11 clients against a 1.11.1p1 server will/might cause me problems? Thanks Chuck

Re: somebody...where's zlib.dsp in the CVS source (v1.11.1 1.11.1p1)?

2001-05-03 Thread Dennis Jones
Well, including the old zlib.dsp project worked for building ZLIB. But the cvsnt.dsp project also failed to include what is apparently a new file, annotate.c. Since I am not a CVS developer or maintainer, I am not familiar with the layout of the source, and am leary of submitting anything that

CVS web processes

2001-05-03 Thread Justin Wall
I'm going to use CVS to maintain a web application. Because the code has to go through an application server, I would like to have the team share the same working directory. Does anyone see a problem with this? We are testing right now, and it looks like if someone has checked out

CVS directory structure

2001-05-03 Thread David CM Weber
I'm working on a design document on our Version Control System (VCS) in house. I'm personally reccomending CVS (for various reasons), but alas, the decision is not mine. What is really the most important (IMHO) is the directory structure of the VCS tree. It needs to be intelligent, flexible,

RE: CVS web processes

2001-05-03 Thread Marshall, David
I'm not certain that this document solves the problem you're expressing, but it's still pretty good stuff. http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/cvs.html -Original Message- From: Justin Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVS

Linux GUI for accessing CVS remotely?

2001-05-03 Thread Newcastle
I've been using WinCVS for remote (client) access to a CVS repository for two months now and find it a good tool to use. However, now I find that I must find a reliable client that runs on Linux and can talk to a remote CVS repository. I have downloaded some of the usual suspects: LinCVS,

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 03-May-2001, Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ On Thursday, May 3, 2001 at 16:58:14 (+0300), Nils Jakobson wrote: ] Subject: Re: importing vendor branches I've also encountered this problem, as far as I've verified it looks like this: when I do unconditional checkout, it

Re: Running cvs-1.11.1p1 on server and cvs-1.11 on clients

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm considering updating our server to cvs-1.11.1p1, but it will be very inconvenient to update all of our cvs clients that are at v1.11. Can anyone tell me whether running 1.11 clients against a 1.11.1p1 server will/might cause me problems? Thanks In general,

Re: Problems running cvs pserver

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We can telnet to the port and we can see that the cvs process is spawed successfully ps -ef | grep cvs root 21066 1022 0 16:07:10 ?0:00 cvs -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver However when we send any characters they are read and then

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 03-May-2001, Nils Jakobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My solution is never work with unconditional checkouts from very beginning, I simply put branch 1 in the checkout options and it stays on the main line. Just to clarify: are you suggesting the use of `cvs checkout -r1 modules...'

Re: somebody...where's zlib.dsp in the CVS source (v1.11.1 1.11.1p1)?

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Dennis Jones writes: Since I am not a CVS developer or maintainer, I am not familiar with the layout of the source, and am leary of submitting anything that could break functionality. (CVS is far too important a project for me to go tweaking things I know nothing about!) These problems

Re: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Adam W. Montville writes: Also, I've been experiencing problems with my pserver authentication. This may be due to the fact that RedHat installed with MD5 passwords enabled. Does this pose the problem I think it might? Hard to say, what problem do you think it might pose? CVS uses the

CVS and Scripting

2001-05-03 Thread adam_montville
Hi all, Does CVS provide any hooks for specific scripting languages? Thanks, Adam ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: communication between CVS ROOT and client ???

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
summit writes: 1. I built a CVS_ROOT in the linux server (Red Hat 6.2) , and = everything goes well I operated various commands=20 within the same computer. But troubles comes up when I try to use = the cvs login via pserver , the client side=20 is linux

Undo a branch

2001-05-03 Thread Jerry Nairn
Hi, A colleague is writing a branch creation script which will make a branch point tag name and a branch name based on the purpose of the branch following a set of conventions, tag the branch point, and create the branch. It all looks pretty good, but he asked me today about the best way to undo

Understanding Branches and Releases

2001-05-03 Thread Scott Johnson
Hi all, I am a new user to CVS and I have couple of questions for you guys. Right now I am in great need of understanding how the branches and the releases work together. First of all, are branches called revisions? How do we create a branch...how do they interact with the releases and the

Re: CVS and Scripting

2001-05-03 Thread David Fuller
Many of the administrative files allow you to call scripts when an event occurs. CVS doesn't have specific support for any scripting language, as long as the script is executable by the server. -- David F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does CVS provide any hooks for specific scripting

RE: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-03 Thread adam_montville
Also, I've been experiencing problems with my pserver authentication. This may be due to the fact that RedHat installed with MD5 passwords enabled. Does this pose the problem I think it might? Hard to say, what problem do you think it might pose? CVS uses the crypt(3) library

RE: Understanding Branches and Releases

2001-05-03 Thread Chuck . Irvine
Scott, These basic concepts are covered very well in the cvs documentation. Please see http://cvshome.org/docs/. Thanks Chuck -Original Message- From: scott.johnson1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 4:04 PM To: info-cvs Subject: Understanding Branches and

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, May 4, 2001 at 06:23:02 (+1000), Fergus Henderson wrote: ] Subject: Re: importing vendor branches But nevertheless, this behaviour is BAD - Broken As Designed. Any command whose default behaviour leaves the main branch of the repository in an inconsistent state is a problem

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Greg A. Woods writes: There is nothing really inconsistent about the state of the repository after a cvs import. Fergus's complaint is that anyone checking out the head of the tree between the time of the import and the time the merge is committed gets the newly imported version of files

RE: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Jerry Nairn
From: Fergus Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:28 PM On 03-May-2001, Nils Jakobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My solution is never work with unconditional checkouts from very beginning, I simply put branch 1 in the checkout options and it stays on the main line.

Building a repository

2001-05-03 Thread Robert Rapp
I'm looking to start a CVS repository for work. I'm getting pretty familiar with using CVS, but I'm not to sure how I want to set it up. We currently have about 30,000 files, none of which are under an kind of version control. No one on the team is accountable for any changes made to these

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, May 3, 2001 at 18:33:17 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ] Subject: Re: importing vendor branches Fergus's complaint is that anyone checking out the head of the tree between the time of the import and the time the merge is committed gets the newly imported version of files that

RE: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-03 Thread Adam W. Montville
After doing some experimentation, I think I've determined that enabling MD5 passwords on my RedHat 7.0 box does, indeed, prevent OS-level authentication by CVS. I built my box first with MD5 passwords enabled, and configured CVS for a pserver, but could not connect from another machine. Then, I

HELP!!! VMS/CMS conversion to CVS

2001-05-03 Thread Sean Breland
I certainly can't be the first person to try this. I'm trying to pull 10 years worth of history out of a vax/vms machine running CMS and put it into CVS. Is this possible? Sean Breland ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

edit -c/commit -c patches for 1.11 (Linux)

2001-05-03 Thread Sasa Brcerevic
Title: Clear Day I know of "edit -c/commit -c" patches for1.10.8 (on sourceforge), but does anyone know of these patches for standard Linux distribution v1.11? Or alternatively has anyone got a binary distribution with these patches applied (Linux v1.11)? Thanks alot. Please reply to

How to install a patch.

2001-05-03 Thread Richard Sharp
Members Equity Email System Hi all, where can I get info on how to install a patch ? Regards, Richard Sharp Members Equity 9 605 6880 0417 342 880 MEMBERS EQUITY PTY LTD ABN 56 070 887 679 This email and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must

CVS checkout error

2001-05-03 Thread Adam W. Montville
Hi all... I can't run "cvs checkout X" across my pserver connection for some reason. I have a repository (/cvs/isaac) with a module "RoCK" that I was supposedly able to import via pserver. My CVSROOT environment variable is set to ":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/isaac" and the command I

Re: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Adam W. Montville writes: After doing some experimentation, I think I've determined that enabling MD5 passwords on my RedHat 7.0 box does, indeed, prevent OS-level authentication by CVS. I built my box first with MD5 passwords enabled, and configured CVS for a pserver, but could not

Re: How to install a patch.

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Richard Sharp writes: where can I get info on how to install a patch ? http://www.gnu.org/directory/patch.html -Larry Jones I don't see why some people even HAVE cars. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CVS checkout error

2001-05-03 Thread Larry Jones
Adam W. Montville writes: cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir (/root): Permission denied http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC182 This is *the* most frequently asked question -- if you need more detailed help than what's in

Re: importing vendor branches

2001-05-03 Thread David L. Martin
Fergus Henderson writes: The reason that this broke things is that `cvs checkout' was checking out inconsistent versions of different files. After the import, some files -- those which we had not modified -- now had revision 1.1.2 on the vendor branch, and only 1.1 on the main

RE: Unexpected merge conflict - bug maybe?

2001-05-03 Thread Chuck . Irvine
Thanks for the input. I'll try to build and install 1.11.1. -Original Message- From: bjacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:41 PM To: Chuck.Irvine Cc: bjacob; info-cvs; bug-cvs Subject: Unexpected merge conflict - bug maybe? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: