RE: CVS Pros/Cons

2004-02-13 Thread Brian Murphy
--- Donald Sharp (sharpd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut Check-outs and commits are not atomic. The repository will not become corrupt, but if you are checking in a number of files and one file fails, the system does not roll back the other files in the repository to their state before

Re: CVS pedantic when doing merges

2004-02-13 Thread m0llbuz_
At 4:07 AM -0500 2/12/04, m0llbuz_ wrote: foo.html = 1.2.2.1 While I find this annoying, it is really the correct thing to do. Right now I am writing a lot of Python code and it is perfectly reasonable to change the white space inside a multi-line string. So unless cvs is

Re: CVS Pros/Cons

2004-02-13 Thread Phil Richards
On 2004-02-13, Kevin Layer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It actually wouldn't be difficult, but it would be a lot of tedious work for very little benefit -- lack of atomicity usually isn't a problem and when it is, it is almost always easily fixed. It would

Pros/Cons - Concurrent Editing

2004-02-13 Thread George Abraham
What are the pros and cons of concurrent editing?. CVS supports and advocates concurrent editing, whereas configuration tools like VSS use the locked model of editing, to which the developers are very much used to. What are the benefits of concurrent editing ( using CVS ) and what problems could

RE: Pros/Cons - Concurrent Editing

2004-02-13 Thread Aditya Gandhi
The way I look at it this depends on the kind of files you are dealing with.. If they are text files which most of your code should be then concurrent editing is what you really want.. Because as the projects grow in number of people and geographies etc. you want to be able to work on

RE: CVS Pros/Cons

2004-02-13 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
Nothing I can release to the wild, without alot of work on my part(ie getting legal involved). And I'm not terribly interested in doing that, currently. It's alot of paperwork. donald -Original Message- From: Brian Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:14

Re: Pros/Cons - Concurrent Editing

2004-02-13 Thread david
What are the pros and cons of concurrent editing?. CVS supports and advocates concurrent editing, whereas configuration tools like VSS use the locked model of editing, to which the developers are very much used to. What are the benefits of concurrent editing ( using CVS ) and what

Re: Pros/Cons - Concurrent Editing

2004-02-13 Thread Michael Kohne
George Abraham said: What are the pros and cons of concurrent editing?. CVS supports and advocates concurrent editing, whereas configuration tools like VSS use the locked model of editing, to which the developers are very much used to. What are the benefits of concurrent editing ( using CVS

CVS client CVSNT server

2004-02-13 Thread Conrad T. Pino
Hello, From what I've read CVSNT started from a :pserver: implementation but is now on it's own development path. I gather CVSNT project works closely with WinCVS project. Can anyone comment on how well standard CVS client still operates with CVSNT server in the real world? TIA, Conrad Pino

CVS Repository On-Line Backup Capability i.e. Hot Backup

2004-02-13 Thread Conrad T. Pino
Hi All, = After searching the info-cvs archive, I see from time to time someone asking for an on-line backup utility for CVS repositories. = I'm considering developing a program based to do on-line

Re: Creating a macro to find modified/ added/ deleted files after a

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Jones
Aditya Gandhi writes: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! 1.on CVSNT if a file was added after a tag was created and the command log -rTag: is used on the root folder the output for

Re: CVS pedantic when doing merges

2004-02-13 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m0llbuz_ wrote: At 4:07 AM -0500 2/12/04, m0llbuz_ wrote: foo.html = 1.2.2.1 While I find this annoying, it is really the correct thing to do. Right now I am writing a lot of Python code and it is perfectly reasonable to change the white

Re: CVS pedantic when doing merges

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 4:07 AM -0500 2/12/04, m0llbuz_ wrote: I also get weird conflicts during merges where the diffs are exactly the same. foo.pm foo = foo 1.2.2.1 I've seen this too. Are there white space differences? Or were the two lines adde in

Specify special characters to ignore

2004-02-13 Thread Rick Genter
Is there a way to tell CVS that it shouldn't warn about the presence of a certain non-printable character? Specifically, we use the copyright symbol (© = 0xA9) in our code comments, and on every initial checkin we get complaints about non-printable characters encountered in a text document. I

RE: Specify special characters to ignore

2004-02-13 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Rick Genter wrote: Is there a way to tell CVS that it shouldn't warn about the presence of a certain non-printable character? Specifically, we use the copyright symbol (© = 0xA9) in our code comments, and on every initial checkin we get complaints about non-printable characters

CVS Introduction slides

2004-02-13 Thread Gianni Mariani
Hi info-cvs guys, I just recieved an email from Reg. Charney with a pointer to slides on CVS that was presented recently at the accu meeting in San Jose. I thought you'all might be interested. Reg. Charney wrote: I have now posted a slightly improved version of the CVS slides that I used on

Re: Specify special characters to ignore

2004-02-13 Thread Larry Jones
Rick Genter writes: Is there a way to tell CVS that it shouldn't warn about the presence of a certain non-printable character? CVS doesn't warn about non-printable characters. Perhaps you're confusing CVS with WinCVS (which has it's own mailing list)? -Larry Jones Monopoly is more fun when

RE: Specify special characters to ignore

2004-02-13 Thread Rick Genter
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Stable CVS Version 1.11.13 Released!

2004-02-13 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stable CVS 1.11.13 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug fixes from previous versions of CVS. This release fixes several server bugs, including a rarely encountered race condition that could cause CVS servers to exit unexpectedly with

bug-cvs@gnu.org mailing list back up.

2004-02-13 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is up again, for those who have been waiting for it. New mail is being delivered and the queued, undelivered stuff should come through soon. Derek - -- *8^) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get

Re: Stable CVS Version 1.11.13 Released!

2004-02-13 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Robert Price wrote: Stable CVS 1.11.13 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug fixes from previous versions of CVS. This release fixes several server bugs, including a rarely encountered race condition that could cause CVS

how to automate the check out of a separate, related CVS tree?

2004-02-13 Thread Gary Funck
Given the following directory structure: proj | |-- sub-proj1 | |-- sub-proj2 | |-- other files/dirs relating to proj Where 'proj' is an overall project directory accessed remotely as ext:cvshost:/cvs for example, and sub-proj1 and sub-proj2 are based upon