RE: Branching bug ??? (was Re: Bug is tagging the head of a branchhead???)

2004-05-20 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
I don't deny that clearcase is capable of supporting a number of branching models :).. What I was saying is that forcing a /0 version on parent branches can and will cause unnecessary merges( perhaps trivial, but it's more work still, even more work in cvs for that matter ). Especially if you are

RE: Branching bug ??? (was Re: Bug is tagging the head of a branchhead???)

2004-05-19 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
I'm confused, My understanding is that Rational( or IBM ) recommends a sparse branching methodology. This methodology is the same one used in cvs. So the question becomes how are you doing your branching in clearcase, and what do you consider it's benefits over this methodology? I'm at a loss

RE: cvs admin -L

2004-05-14 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
It means that it becomes a requirement to lock the file no matter who you are. donald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcelo Carvalho Fernandes Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cvs admin -L Hi all ! In

RE: Script for renaming CVS files and directories ?

2004-05-13 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
Automation isn't really possible, as far as I understand the problem. There's no way of putting the knowledge of what you want into a script... And essentially the process centers around moving or renaming files, it's not terribly difficult to do by hand. What exactly are you looking for?

RE: Versioning between checkout|update, commit

2004-04-01 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
-Original Message- From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:45 AM To: Paul Sander Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fouts Christopher (6452); MKlinke Subject: RE: Versioning between checkout|update, commit Thank you for the

RE: Versioning between checkout|update, commit

2004-04-01 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
The problem with this methodology is that it's very easy for stuff to get checked in that will break the build for other people. Isolation is *good*. Allowing people to save work that may not be finished is also good( although maybe not as good ). donald -Original Message- From:

RE: cvs log and UTC

2004-03-24 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
Yes, please, I can't tell you the hell I've had recently with Timezones being non-numeric. Did you know that Australia has a EST timezone that nicely corresponds to the East coast of the united states? donald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: EOF while looking for end of string in RCS file : How to deleteproblem file?

2004-03-13 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
If you never wanted the mp3 file to be in the repository, directly removing the ,v file is a safe operation to do. donald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Phase Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EOF

RE: [OFT] scripting removal of $Id:

2004-02-20 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
I'd be carefull about using that line as part of a blind search and removal. $Id:.* is very legal syntax with perl code. Having said that a dry run would quickly let you know if it was going to cause you problems. donald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: CVS Pros/Cons

2004-02-13 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CVS Pros/Cons --- 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

RE: CVS Pros/Cons

2004-02-12 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
cut Weaknesses of CVS: There is no integrity-checking for the source-code repository. Amazingly, there are no checksums or signatures to allow the integrity of the source-code repository to be verified. This means that the repository can become corrupt and it can be months before you realize

RE: Have I got a corrupt repository?

2004-01-14 Thread Donald Sharp \(sharpd\)
Andy - As a suggestion to tackling this problem from a different direction, would you please run the check_cvs script over your repository. The script should be found in the scripts directory of the cvs distribution. I'm interested in the output. donald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Commitinfo examples

2003-11-20 Thread Donald Sharp
This is a small problem. Although I would turn it around and create a wrapper script that the users would need to run to commit. Part of this wrapper script would gather the changes and run whatever 'process' you want around the about to be committed files. donald On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at

Re: Broken pipe with loginfo in a chroot jail

2003-11-07 Thread Donald Sharp
It's a term to describe what the purpose of chroot is. chroot attempts to severly limit/restrict access to a machine, hence the term 'jail'. donald On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:28:57AM -0500, Jim.Hyslop wrote: Geoff Beier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a silly question, but

Re: What is the proper way to talk to the developers

2003-11-05 Thread Donald Sharp
you appear to have found it. donald On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:28:16AM -0500, Tony Ennis wrote: ...and suggest an enhancement. Anyone know how? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Donald Sharp
Ick. I hate keyword expansions. The minute you ever merge between branches you have to deal with those keywords. donald On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:18:45PM +0100, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:53:33PM -0500, Robert Clark wrote: If you are not too worried a

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Donald Sharp
Why do you need this? What is important is the label! If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R and parse the output. donald On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:56:47PM -0500, Katherine King wrote: Hi, I am pretty much

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Donald Sharp
testing, deployment to dev environment, unit testing on dev environment, deploy to test environment, unit testing on test environment, application logs etc, etc Thanks Kate -Original Message- From: Donald Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 31, 2003 4:11 PM Subject

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Donald Sharp
Robbins wrote: The label collectively identifies the files and their individual revisions. The label alone is useless in an audit. Bert -Original Message- From: Donald Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:11 PM To: Katherine King Cc: '[EMAIL

Re: roll back repository ?

2003-10-29 Thread Donald Sharp
On that note, run the check_cvs script that comes with the cvs distribution. It'll help you establish if/where corruption actually happened. donald On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:40:32AM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: Richard Pfeiffer writes: Some of the projects in our cvs repository were

Re: CVS Protocol History

2003-07-03 Thread Donald Sharp
Why not just look at the source or the CHANGES logs? donald On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:17:22AM -0400, Seshan, Sriram wrote: Hi, Is there an easy way to trace the development of the CVS protocol. In particular I would like to know at what version the Kopt and the Is-modified requests were

Re: Changing group when commit

2003-05-30 Thread Donald Sharp
chgrp cvs_innov parent_directory chmod g+s parent directory You might want to do this recursively. donald On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:34:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all ! I have a little problem with security. Is there any way to avoid changing group when i commit a file ? I'm

Re: The idea isn't clear...

2003-05-29 Thread Donald Sharp
Why does each developer need his or her own branch. Just pull a workspace and have the developer treat his local workspace as a branch. That way whoever commits first forces everyone else to auto-update and pull in the changes... Instead of waiting till the end. donald On Wed, May 28, 2003

Re: outsider's perspective

2003-05-27 Thread Donald Sharp
Have you looked at subversion? Or what about bitkeeper? I'm pretty sure that subversion can handle directory versioning. I don't know about bitkeeper as that I refuse to download the source due to their restrictive liscensing agreement... donald On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:50:02AM -0500, Phil

Re: outsider's perspective

2003-05-27 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:45:14PM -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003, Steve deRosier wrote: Also, if so many people NEED this functionality, why doesn't it get added to CVS? One reason is that it doesn't have to be literally added into the CVS program, but rather imposed

Re: Repository File Corruption

2003-03-28 Thread Donald Sharp
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:48:13PM -0800, Wayne Johnson wrote: We had an interesting experience last night. We have a RH Linux CVS server that holds several (hundred?)thousand repository files. A large number (50) of the CVS files got corrupted (truncated) when (according to the history

Re: :ext: , ssh :pserver: relation question

2003-03-25 Thread Donald Sharp
Look for a env variable $HOME set. That is where the .cvspass file should be put. donald On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:18:24AM +0100, Wolfgang Mettbach wrote: Hello, Mark D. Baushke wrote: Ronald Petty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone explain the difference between using :ext:

Re: cvs issue reporting

2003-03-25 Thread Donald Sharp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] donald On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:59:31PM +, Mark Cooper wrote: Last week, I posted a message to this group for help with a particular problem, namely that when merging between two branches (as opposed to merging between branch and trunk) under certain circumstances

Re: Check out in Cygwin

2003-03-24 Thread Donald Sharp
Looks like rsh is misbehaving. Get rsh working correctly and then retry the cvs command. donald On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:52:59PM -, Dong, Hongbiao wrote: Hi all, Does anybody happen to know how to check out in Cygwin? The CVS is installed during setup the Cygwin, but it seems not to

Re: cvs commit behavior

2003-03-07 Thread Donald Sharp
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Andy Harrison wrote: Sorry, I'm new to cvs. I just want to verify this is correct behavior. I got a cvs pserver working and all that. I added something to the tree to try it out. I check it out, add a line, commit. When I manually look in the

Re: Help required

2003-03-06 Thread Donald Sharp
manually go fix the data and time. The time is in the first column after the first character. It's stored as a hex time in seconds since the epoch. Find the offending numbers and replace them with 'good' ones. M3a9b9d79|sharpd|~/develop/*0|check_cvs|1.16|check_cvs.pl

Re: Anyway to builk delete tags

2003-02-25 Thread Donald Sharp
I generally hack together a quick and dirty shell script that does this. Take your list and make sure that they are in a file one per line. Load it up in vi( or your editor of choice ) and search and replace 1,$s/^/cvs rtag -d /. Run by /bin/sh filename donald On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at

Re: cvs checkout: authorization failed

2003-02-24 Thread Donald Sharp
What's the permissions on /usr/local and /usr/local/cvsroot? donald On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:32:41PM +, Lu Fang wrote: Hi, all I set up the cvs with cygwin under windows2K OS. I want to try a pserver connection protocol for my cvs repo. And I have followed some steps as shown below:

Re: Locking files

2003-02-20 Thread Donald Sharp
This goes against the cvs philosophy( Concurrent Versioning System ). But if you must have this look at cvs lock( or is it cvs admin? ) functionality. But it's all explained in the manual.. donald On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:06:50PM +0530, Murali Potla wrote: Hi there, I am migrating a

Re: The recursive behavior of CVS

2003-02-19 Thread Donald Sharp
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:37:45PM +0200, Reinstein, Shlomo wrote: Another related question: In my computer, there is no CVSROOT environment variable. There is no meaning to set it, since we use several repositories and we have a Perl wrapper around CVS that knows which repository each module

Re: new files ending up with state: dead

2003-01-08 Thread Donald Sharp
You added the file cr.c onto the dbupdate_restructure branch. As such it shouldn't appear on main. This state tells cvs that when you pull a workspace based off of main it shouldn't make the file appear. If you were to merge the branch down into main it would loose the dead state. donald

Re: local tagging

2002-12-10 Thread Donald Sharp
Just grab the Date of the latest change you want and then when you want to go back do a cvs update -D date -r branch donald On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:12:26AM -0500, Volpe, Christopher R (Research) wrote: Hi folks- I'm new to the list, so I apologize if this has been asked. I perused the

Re: CVS hangs on exit when using SSH

2002-12-02 Thread Donald Sharp
Larry - I've seen you saying 'this is fixed in the development version of cvs' a bunch recently. Perhaps we should think about rolling a new release? donald On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:34:19AM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: Ken Williams writes: When I issue any CVS command (update, checkout,

Re: check_cvs.pl script

2002-11-25 Thread Donald Sharp
Yes you can use it in your business, it's not escaped. It was put out there. donald On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:21:50AM -0800, Rich Bodo wrote: That script seems like something that just escaped Cisco captivity (co the header). Is there a plan to release it under a license of some kind?

Re: Merging in CVS

2002-11-22 Thread Donald Sharp
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:16:37AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: [ bring up files for merging as soon as the conflict is detected ] No, CVS can't do that. Fundamentally, CVS is a command-line tool, and all that the GUIs (like WinCVS) do is to put a pretty face on it. By the way, how

Re: check_cvs.pl script

2002-11-21 Thread Donald Sharp
Attached. Documentation inside the script. donald On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:29:18AM +0200, Reinstein, Shlomo wrote: Hi, I found the check_cvs.pl script in some of the messages in the mailing-list. Is this script published formally somewhere, or is that a private script that was provided

Re: check_cvs.pl script

2002-11-21 Thread Donald Sharp
in the repository. Shlomo -Original Message- From: Donald Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:57 PM To: Reinstein, Shlomo Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: check_cvs.pl script Attached. Documentation inside the script. donald On Thu

Re: Problem with partially lost branch information

2002-11-21 Thread Donald Sharp
I would suggest that the forv_ver1_02X branch tag doesn't exist in the first two directories. Since it looks like you know the date when the tag was applied you can pull a workspace with the cvs co -D date command for those two directories and then apply the branch tag. Then you should be

Re: Revision in source code getting modifed

2002-10-25 Thread Donald Sharp
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_12.html#SEC98 donald On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:43:45PM +0530, Satya Prasad DV wrote: hi, Iam having a weird problem with CVS. We have recently checked in some source code into CVS. This source contains some Macro definitions like #define REV

Re: Changing the structure of a project

2002-10-08 Thread Donald Sharp
yes it's possible, but you will probably loose the ability to do old builds, if that is not terribly important go ahead and lock the repository and move the directories around. donald On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:00:12AM -0300, Pedro Henrique Ponchio wrote: Hello all, Can I move a file to one

Re: Changing the structure of a project

2002-10-08 Thread Donald Sharp
all about the individual people involved assaying the risk associated with moving directories around within cvs. The major risk for moving directories around is the inability to build old releases. donald On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:09:10AM -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote: Donald Sharp [EMAIL

Re: Can I post a problem in this list?

2002-10-04 Thread Donald Sharp
yeppers. donald On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:21:45AM -0300, Alejandro Gmez wrote: I just send this mail because I have a problem setting cvs pserver. I´ve search the web and can´t find a way to make it work... Is this the list to discuss this kind of problem? TIA Alejandro Gómez IT

Re: Including file version during checkout

2002-09-27 Thread Donald Sharp
print( $Name$bar ); Ick!. Perfectly reasonable. donald On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:41:45AM +0200, Martin Roehrig wrote: Hi Mike, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Ayers Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:08 PM To:

Re: checkout multiple tags

2002-09-26 Thread Donald Sharp
You could tag the commits sequentially and then do a cvs diff versus the correct predecessor number. donald On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:48:23AM -0700, Eric Fritz wrote: Is there anyway to checkout multiple tags at once, or even checkout subsequent tags and overlay them on a current working

Re: Including file version during checkout

2002-09-26 Thread Donald Sharp
These tags always cause merge conflicts. Which makes people who sync between branches life that much harder for little to no gain of functionality in the long run. donald On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:09:07AM -0400, Frederic Brehm wrote: You can use the keyword $Revision$ as explained in

Re: How does one change the identity of the HEAD (trunk) ?

2002-09-19 Thread Donald Sharp
Why not just merge the changes on branch ERASER into main? In the end what difference does it truly matter what branch you develop on? donald On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:37:38PM +0100, Julian Seward wrote: Greetings. We have a project (valgrind) in which development proceeded in the

Re: How does one change the identity of the HEAD (trunk) ?

2002-09-19 Thread Donald Sharp
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:46:16PM +0100, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Donald Sharp wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:37:38PM +0100, Julian Seward wrote: Now what we want to do is to throw away, in effect, the current HEAD and turn the interesting ERASER branch

Re: pserver troubles

2002-09-04 Thread Donald Sharp
1) Did you reHUP inetd or xinetd? 2) If step #1 doesn't work, please send us your changes to inetd.conf or the xinetd directory so we can inspect them... donald On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:43:42PM -0500, McMurray, James wrote: I'm sure everyone on this list is tired of hearing from me, but

Re: CVS vs. RCS

2002-08-29 Thread Donald Sharp
The biggest difference is that CVS allows module level control over source. RCS is designed to work on a single file at a time. dopnald On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:19:39PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I recently got started with CVS, and also heard about RCS. Was woundering what are

Re: file in more than one project

2002-08-29 Thread Donald Sharp
For those files that need to be in more than one project put them in their own module that both projects automatically pull when you create a workspace. Look at 'modules' in the cvs documentation. donald On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:15:56AM +0200, Vera Kiessling wrote: Hi, does anyone

Re: Is there a better way

2002-07-29 Thread Donald Sharp
cvs co -r tag module donald On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:36:30AM -0700, Patrick Nelson wrote: What is the best way to pull a previous release out of the repository. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Repairing repository

2002-07-29 Thread Donald Sharp
If you have two different tree's( the cvs workspace and the hard copyout ). I'd diff the two and then patch the changes into the cvs workspace... donald On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:48:53AM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: Matt Riechers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have copied the backup

Re: find files that are not in CVS

2002-07-15 Thread Donald Sharp
If all the files in the directory are supposed to be in cvs, just run cvs add *. It'll do the right thing. donald On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:00:13PM +0300, Dmitry Trunikov wrote: Hi All. I'm newbie in CVS and need in your help. Problem is in following. I have a directory which has many

Re: need help with check_cvs.pl

2002-07-15 Thread Donald Sharp
script and identified a corrupt ,v file. It appears to have a corrupted delta number (ran rlog). Any ideas how to fix this or where to find information on fixing this? -Original Message- From: Donald Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:18 AM

Re: need help with check_cvs.pl

2002-07-12 Thread Donald Sharp
I do believe that Larry is correct. If your using my check_cvs.pl script you can set the CVSDEBUGEDIT env variable to 1 and then see which file(s) it's not having fun with. donald On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:30:49PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: Applegate, JoAnne writes: cvs checkout:

Re: Is there a limit in number of files when doing mass commit?

2002-07-10 Thread Donald Sharp
There's no theoretical limit besides how much memory you have that I am aware of. 2000 files is a lot. As long as you see progress I'd let it work... donald On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:22:27PM +0200, Tommy Svensson wrote: Hi everybody, I'm committing approx. 2000 files at the same time...

Re: Error when trying to checkout

2002-07-10 Thread Donald Sharp
Looks like cvs doesn't have permission to write into the /tmp directory on the cvs server. You have three choices: a) Fix the permission problem under /tmp on the cvs server b) Tell cvs to use a different directory via the -T command line option on the server startup vie inetd. c) Recompile

Re: Keeping multiple CVS repositories in sync

2002-07-10 Thread Donald Sharp
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:12:47PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:24:04PM -0500, Jay Yarbrough wrote: It would appear for anyone who truly needs multiple repositories kept in sync, that CVS is an unacceptable tool. This is most unfortunate. Correct. Various

Re: CVS Update Behaviour

2002-02-27 Thread Donald Sharp
Hey - Can you guys take this offline? thanks! donald On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:37:10AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 23:51:29 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour My point was that very few programmers, including the seasoned

Re: multiple cvs clients operating on same working directory

2002-02-19 Thread Donald Sharp
Yes, because cvs locks the directory in question in such a manner that checkin's and checkouts cannot collide. donald On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:36:10PM +0100, Stephan Feder wrote: Hello, is it safe to run multiple cvs clients that operate on the same working directory (for example one

Re: HOW TO ---- UNSUBSCRIBED

2002-02-13 Thread Donald Sharp
That's because you are responsible for unsubscribing yourself and sending a email to a list saying unsubscribe isn't the way to go about it. Have you taken a look at the link placed at the bottom of every email message? http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs donald On Wed, Feb 13, 2002

Re: updating to a particular date on a branch

2002-02-12 Thread Donald Sharp
Have you tried cvs update -D 2 Feb 2002 -r branch? donald On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:17:58PM -, chiranjeeb_buragohain wrote: I am trying to reconstruct the state of a repository on a particular date on a branch. If I check out the branch in a particular directory and then run cvs

Re: how to checkout a single file????

2002-02-07 Thread Donald Sharp
cvs -d /your/cvsroot co /the/path/to/the/single/file donald On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:37:12PM +0530, Kamles Mandal wrote: ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Correct behaviour of status command?

2002-02-07 Thread Donald Sharp
In the file MINOR-BUGS there is this entry: * cvs status has a difference in its output between local and client/server mode. Namely there's a tab character followed by a ctime(3)-style date string at the end of the Working revision: field. Looking at the status command it's not apparent

Re: Question: How to ignore generate files when we do cvs update

2002-02-07 Thread Donald Sharp
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC173 This section spells out exactly what you want to do. donald On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:33:15PM -0600, Tom Choi wrote: All, We have several generate files and never commit them to our CVSROOT. When we did cvs update. And then I saw ?

Re: Revision Problem

2002-01-25 Thread Donald Sharp
Seyethu - Just check the source out as you would normally do cvs -d CVSROOT co Module. The 1.1.1.1 revision is from a vendor import. Unless you explicitly work on the vendor branch you will be ok. Also, I noticed that you also emailed me seperately, in the future I only answer cvs questions

Re: server help.

2002-01-22 Thread Donald Sharp
Does the user you have mapped the login to have permission to read the directories that the repository is actually in? donald On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:48:59PM -, abthagirs wrote: Hi All, I have set CVS server at one machine and CVS client at some other machine. I am getting the

Re: someone shortcircuiting this list to razor-report?

2002-01-21 Thread Donald Sharp
This issue has come up before( repeatedly ). More than likely the list owners are not overly interested in acting in the lists best interests? Perhaps it is time for someone to step forward for a new list location? Perhaps we could use sourceforge for this? donald On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at

Re: someone shortcircuiting this list to razor-report? / Moving the list!

2002-01-21 Thread Donald Sharp
Greg - Fair enough. Do you have any suggestions? donald On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:30:06PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Monday, January 21, 2002 at 13:33:05 (-0800), Wim Kerkhoff wrote: ] Subject: Re: someone shortcircuiting this list to razor-report? / Moving the list! Donald

Re: cvs problem

2002-01-08 Thread Donald Sharp
Make sure you have write permissions on the /develop/src/MAIN/vault/is/sap_intf_hq directory. Generally you want everyone in the same group who is doing development and you want rwx permissions for that group. You can enforce the correct directory permissions for when new directories are

Re: Timestamp handling in checkout vs update

2002-01-07 Thread Donald Sharp
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:13:46PM -0800, Harper, Don wrote: I have observed and read in the archives that cvs sets file timestamps to the commit times when doing a checkout operation but sets them to the current time when doing an update. What is the rationale for this? Suppose file

Re: Not allowing a user to commit in repository

2001-12-21 Thread Donald Sharp
You need to look into the commitinfo script. donald On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:36:01AM -0800, Hafeez Mohammad wrote: Is there a way for not allowing a user to commit in the repository. cvs watch just watches the files but does not have a cpability to Stop the user from commiting the

Re: verifymsg doesn't work for directories - bug?

2001-12-20 Thread Donald Sharp
Just as a follow up. The verify message script if setup will run on directories. The script in question had a small bug that was being tripped on directories. Thanks! donald On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Mehrdad Torky wrote: Hi, I have been using cvs for several

Re: Anybody any idea on how to set back a revision number?

2001-10-30 Thread Donald Sharp
There is no way. Its a good idea to just ignore the revision numbers and rely on labels as the manual states. donald On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:21:42PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, as I posted yesterday: Accidentaly, I set a revision to be 3.0 instead of 2.0 by issueing the

Re: auto adding new files

2001-09-11 Thread Donald Sharp
find . -print | xargs cvs add If the file's already there it will not add it. donald On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:50:47PM +0200, Martin van Es wrote: I have the following question. With CVS, is it posible to automaticly add new file\'s. I had a project, but added a lot of files, it will cost

Re: SOS..Need Help Fast.

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
RTFM: http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC182 donald On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:40:42PM +, vignesh wrote: Hi guys, I have set up a remote CVS repository on RED HAT linux 6.2 machine. I am able to login, import modules etc. when I try to check out a module I get this error.

Re: Multiple export to the same dir

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:07:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use CVS to control revisions of an HTML project. On the web server I have a development area, where I can test my files and commit them to CVS. If I want to release a new version, I would like to export the files

Re: how to delete the module?

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:38:54PM -0400, kamesh jayachandran wrote: Hai all, I am just creating some dummy modules in my repository to demonstrate the capabilities of cvs server to my win32 vss users.I am manually deleting the directories concerned for each module after demo(from the

Re: Watches-- how to use?

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
You need to create a notification methodology. http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_10.html#SEC91 donald On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:00:00PM -0700, Jeeva Sarma wrote: Hi Can anyone tell me how I can have 5 people to watch 2 files and interact so that they can inform others if one of them is

Re: how to delete the module?

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Donald Sharp wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:38:54PM -0400, kamesh jayachandran wrote: Hai all, I am just creating some dummy modules in my repository to demonstrate the capabilities of cvs server to my win32 vss users.I am manually deleting the directories

Re: CVS Features

2001-06-13 Thread Donald Sharp
Please feel free to read the cvs documentation: http://www.cvshome.org/docs. How did you determine your list of requirements btw? donald On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:47:55AM -0400, Adam Popp wrote: I'm thinking about using the CVS version control but I am comparing it to an alterative which is

Re: IPv6

2001-06-12 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:33:17AM +0200, Michal Svec wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Donald Sharp wrote: cvs relies on other processes to provide a inter-machine transport mechanism. If those other transports provide ipv6 support cvs will work with them. CVS needs to recognize ipv6

Re: Use of CVS on large scales

2001-06-08 Thread Donald Sharp
What's large scale for your team? Go with Clearcase if you have 100+ developers. CVS starts to break down( ie become unuseable ) with over a 100 developers actively developing at a single time. This is related to how cvs does file locking inside of the repository when people

Re: Use of CVS on large scales

2001-06-08 Thread Donald Sharp
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:59:34PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, June 8, 2001 at 09:30:01 (-0400), Donald Sharp wrote: ] Subject: Re: Use of CVS on large scales CVS starts to break down( ie become unuseable ) with over a 100 developers actively developing at a single time

Re: Use of CVS on large scales

2001-06-08 Thread Donald Sharp
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:30:16AM -0700, John Minnihan wrote: Do you have specific experience with CVS 'breaking down and becoming unusable'? If so, please share that experience here so others may learn from it. 'Developing at the same time' is a misnomer in this context. CVS' transitory

Re: IPv6

2001-06-07 Thread Donald Sharp
Is that the address or the hostname? donald On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:50:28PM +0900, KOIE Hidetaka wrote: There is a bit of problem. IPv6 address representation is colon-separated hex. This conflicts with CVSROOT. CVS may provide a quoting syntax. -- KOIE Hidetaka [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spaces in directory or file names

2001-06-07 Thread Donald Sharp
It seems to work for me when I just tried it.. Create a test repository and create a filename with a space in it try different things with it. See if it works. donald On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:28:19AM -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: What have been peoples experience with keeping code under CVS

Re: Assert Failure: cvs: lock.c:173: lock_name: Assertion `strncmp (r epository, CVSroot_directory, strlen (CVSroot_directory)) == 0' failed.

2001-06-06 Thread Donald Sharp
Did you update all your sandboxes to reflect the new repository location? There are two solutions: 1) Edit all the CVS/ directories in your workspace to properly point at the new repository location. 2) Re checkout a new sandbox and work from there. donald On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:10:56AM

Re: Strange error: EOF in value...

2001-06-05 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:21:29AM -0400, Derek R. Price wrote: Donald Sharp wrote: I'm attaching a script that will find the damaged version for you. [...] check_cvs.plName: check_cvs.pl Type: Perl Program (application/x-perl) I don't suppose you'd consider

Re: Trouble adding and updating

2001-06-05 Thread Donald Sharp
Anette - If you look closely at your headers of this email your machine thinks the year is 2020. You've probably already fixed this, but in case you haven't here's your warning ;) donald On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:04:55AM +0200, Anette Van Aswegen wrote: Hi I have trouble adding a file. I

Re: Strange error: EOF in value...

2001-06-04 Thread Donald Sharp
I'm attaching a script that will find the damaged version for you. donald On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 04:03:34PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: Dennis Jones writes: cvs [server aborted]: EOF in value in RCS file /vol/cvs/Projects/GenServr/SelectVehicle.dfm,v What is the meaning of this

Re: Strange error: EOF in value...

2001-06-04 Thread Donald Sharp
find the script usefull. donald - Dennis - Original Message - From: Donald Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dennis Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Strange error: EOF in value... I'm

Re: cvsignore problem

2001-06-04 Thread Donald Sharp
Check the documentation: http://faq.cvshome.org/fom-server/cache/23.html donald On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:00:32PM -0700, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: When I try to checkout (from WinCVS. Repository is on unix box.) I get this error: cvs server: cannot open /homeroot/.cvsignore: Permission

Re: Running editor while `cvs commit' not on terminal

2001-06-04 Thread Donald Sharp
The '' symbol tells the users shell to do something with the output. cvs can do nothing( it doesn't know where it's stdout and stderr are going ) when the user does this. donald On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:41:05PM +0400, Alexey Mahotkin wrote: I've seen several times report on the following

Re: fatal signal and .rfl locks

2001-05-31 Thread Donald Sharp
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:30:43AM -0700, Dennis Jones wrote: When I do an update, I get the message, Terminated with fatal signal 11 It seems to be happening in the same place everytime, so I went to the directory on the CVS server where it stops, did an ls and found some #cvs.rfl

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