RE: renaming a branch?

2001-10-20 Thread Gianni Mariani
You can create a synonym of a branch using: cvs admin -nNEWBRANCH:OLDBRANCH and then you can remove OLDBRANCH. -- Strong suggestion is to back up your repository, I've only tested this - I've never used it in anger. There's no rolling back from mistakes. -Original Message- From:

Getting the revisions numbers of head revisions in main trunk

2001-10-20 Thread Sherman Tse
Hi all I an trying to do an rdiff between one of my branchs and the head revisions in the main trunck. As far as I know, the cvs is only capable to do riffs of both releases/branchs are identified by tags. The problem is that the head revisions in main are not tagged so cvs cannot do an

Re: pserver

2001-10-20 Thread Larry Jones
Rob Dreeke writes: cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from loneqlexprodora1: cvs pserver: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option That indicates that your CVS (on the server) was compiled without pserver support. -Larry Jones Girls are like slugs -- they probably

Forcing the date on a check-in

2001-10-20 Thread Paul DeWolf
Hi all, I'm in the process of moving from SourceSafe to CVS, and I'm writing a Python script to convert from one to the other. (The website with the vss2cvs Perl script seems to not be available anymore). I want to keep the old dates of the file versions, so I want to be able to commit a

Identifying the head revisions currently in main

2001-10-20 Thread Sherman Tse
Hi all, I'd like to do an rdiff between one of my branches in the cvs and the head revisions in the main trunk. Is there a way to do that? As far as I know, cvs can only do an rdiff if the revisions in the two releases/branches are tagged. The problem is that the head revisions in main are