pserver vs. ssh - performance

2001-05-19 Thread Howard Zhou
Hi, CVS Community, To my understanding, pserver uses a service port via inetd or xinetd daemon service. Would this service port be a bottle neck to access to CVS repositories from multiple clients simultaneously? How is the performance with ssh access method compared to pserver mode? Can

Macros with WinCVS

2001-05-19 Thread Howard Zhou
Hi, All, I'd like to embed the perl wrapper checkin script to WinCVS to replace the default commit. Is that possible? Can I use a macro? If so, how do I define a macro with WinCVS? Thanks for you advice. Howard ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

RE: problem with LF -- CRLF trasnlation

2001-05-19 Thread Ralph Mack
My current favorite for editing files of uncertain parentage on Windows is Textpad (http://www.textpad.com). It's shareware, so no source, but it's cheap and solid and starts up fast - and, of course, it supports Windows key bindings (unlike VI :-)). It has some programmer-friendly stuff like

RE: CVS Server

2001-05-19 Thread Gianni Mariani
Dear Flame, the cvs binary operates both as a server and a client. Note below a copy of my xinetd file for the pserver ... Flame on. G -- # default: on # description: The cvspserver provides support for cvs network connections \

RE: pserver vs. ssh - performance

2001-05-19 Thread Gianni Mariani
ssh is secure - probably a must over the Wild Wild Web - however you can use port forwarding of the pserver port over SSH and get the same. Too many ways to skin the cat. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Howard Zhou Sent: Saturday, May

RE: Is this a bug?

2001-05-19 Thread Andy Baker
Yep, spot on. I /do/ have CVS: at the start of all the template lines as I want to provide some comments/recommendations to the user about the log message they're about to enter. I guess my only workround for this (admittedly rare) condition is to hack logmesg.c so that my additional comments get

Re: serialization of CVS commands?

2001-05-19 Thread Larry Jones
Ken McKinney writes: The question has come up as to whether the rtag command is serialized -- IE, whether a developer can commit a file with a change after the rtag is issued but before the rtag command completes. Yes, that can happen. There is a certain amount of checking that rtag does

Re: loginfo problem

2001-05-19 Thread Larry Jones
Giuseppe Milicia writes: Indeed that's what I do... The repository is on a Linux machine and I see it as \\machine\etc\etc Anything wrong with that?? I'm kind of new to cvs, actually I have no idea of how to set things up for a client/server thing. Lots. First, you'll almost certainly

Re: Question about cvsignore file

2001-05-19 Thread Larry Jones
George Mathew writes: I am trying not to ignore the core directory during cvs import. I added a cvsignore file in $CVSROOT/$CVSROOT directory of server. [...] This did not work. But if I add this to my $HOME/.cvsignore file it works. The documentation says $CVSROOT/$CVSROOT is the first

Re: pserver vs. ssh - performance

2001-05-19 Thread Larry Jones
Howard Zhou writes: To my understanding, pserver uses a service port via inetd or xinetd daemon service. Would this service port be a bottle neck to access to CVS repositories from multiple clients simultaneously? No, that's how all services work. Multiple clients can connect to the same

Re: CVS Server

2001-05-19 Thread Larry Jones
Gianni Mariani writes: Note below a copy of my xinetd file for the pserver ... Note especially that it's incorrect. # default: on # description: The cvspserver provides support for cvs network connections \ # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication. service

Re: CVS Server

2001-05-19 Thread Larry Jones
Flame writes: I have read through most of the CVS docs on http://www.cvshome.org/ but... I still don't understand it. I see references to a CVS Server... however I can't see any program designed to be a CVS server... so... umm... how exactly would one go about creating a CVS server and

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Re: Note to list owners: kill the SPAM

2001-05-19 Thread Boris
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