RE: CVS commit failure and lock files (under windows with cygwin)

2002-11-04 Thread David Marshburn
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lawrence.jones;eds.com] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CVS commit failure and lock files (under windows with cygwin) David Marshburn writes: If I

Re: CVS commit failure and lock files (under windows with cygwin)

2002-09-12 Thread David Marshburn
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Larry Jones wrote: Seth Copen Goldstein writes: cvs [commit aborted]: error writing to lock file $repository/,$file, where $repository is the path to the repository and $file is the file I am trying to commit. I have permissions in $repository and can

Re: e-mail notification

2002-07-15 Thread David Marshburn
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Anette van der Schyf wrote: What do I need to get e-mail notification when a file in the repository is edited or committed by someone else? What I have done so far is the following: Because many of the users' e-mail username and cvs username differs, I created a

Re: How to diff a binary file?

2002-07-15 Thread David Marshburn
Well, for instance, not all files that are marked as binary in cvs are really binary, in the executable sense. My group has our visual studio project (.dsp) and workspace (.dsw) files in cvs marked as binary. Sometimes, if I don't remember offhand what I changed about a project file, I'll force

cvs commit failure lock files

2002-06-24 Thread David Marshburn
Hi folks, I'm having the following problem, and I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on it, or offer any suggestions or things to try. I have cvs (from the current cygwin distribution) set up on my laptop, which runs Windows XP. My repository exists on a unix box and is mounted to the