S I wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm planning to lock cvs today getting ready for our release. I realize
with certain version control software nowadays you don't have to lock
the repo and the developers can continue with their work. However,
we're imposing and enforcing a few days for freeze and to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not just cvs rm all the files from it, so they no
longer exist at the head of the branch? People would have to
accidentally checkout old revisions before they could
accidentally commit to it; that's pretty improbable I think.
The problem is that files from
Liquidchild wrote:
I posted on here recently with regards to using SSH and SmartCvs, I
have (i think) made a little head way in this but when trying to get
the modules to read from smartCVS checkout project option i am getting
the following:
An i/o error occured, details: Unknown Compression
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've set up a CVS module with cvs watch on so that users have to use
cvs edit to reserve files for editing. This works fine for serial
editing of unmergeable binary files files. When users try to edit
files already marked for editing by someone else they are told the
ravish agarwal wrote:
Does that mean that by only copying the files of the repositery after
installing the new version of CVS will do the needful. all the
history-details will remain there.? also Is there any possilble version
upgrade related issues. Please Help me out.
As Todd Dennison
Todd Foster wrote:
I am not sure I agree with that. The act of doing a fresh checkout of that
file (either via a new checkout or update -C or what-not) makes CVS
forget
that you are editing that file. cvs editors no longer returns you as
an editor of
that file (regardless of where you run it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi.
Is it possible to roll back the version of the currently used CVSROOT/modules
file?
Say that a product rev. A is built using Ampersand modules.
Say that the product is updated to rev. B, and that the Ampersand modules is
changed causing a change in the
Hemant Thakre wrote:
2) Another problem which I'm facing after upgradation is
*CVS Time stamping problem.
*When I checkin or commit any file to cvs server. It shows diff. time
stamp for checked in file which is around six hours less than current
time.
We use ntp for time synchronisation
Dennis von Ferenczy wrote:
Yes. Get a CVS client for your local machine and do your cvs
commits from there behind the IDE's back. On the CVS server
== web server, use the loginfo hook to keep a reference
sandbox up to date, from which the web site operates.
Russ Sherk wrote:
You are correct Jim. It should be used together with other metrics to
aid in determining the general health of a particular load or to see
general trends. E.g. we used to parse the logs between builds and
generate a list of changed files grouped by log entry and PR #. It
Travos Xavier wrote:
Hy all,
I am using cvs from a linux platform and the cvs
directory is on a server. My problem is that the cvs
directory for the server in on a windows host D:\CVS.
How to login ? Im doing
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: because it is not
linux directory /usr/cvs for
Todd Denniston wrote:
[...]
moving a repo is covered in the manual[1].
basically:
0) get everyone to do a final checkin and then release their sandboxes
(mainly prevent confusion later).
1) Back up the repository [2].
2) take the backup to the other machine.
3) restore from backup.
4) configure
Paul Sander wrote:
CVS notices the conflicting changes and produces a working copy of the
file that contains Person1's removed lines and Person2's inserted lines,
with special mark-ups to draw attention to the problem. It also leaves
copies of both contributors in the user's workspace.
Not
Hridyesh Pant wrote:
Hi All,
Is there any way to find out how much liles added or removed in a file
between two dates.
[note: please choose more descriptive subject lines. query is rather
vague.]
Not easily, no. Between one revision and the next is quite simple - just
look at the output
S I wrote:
Hi Class!
Currently our CVS repo has 3 main separate projects running under it.
By default when I create a new unix user; I give them access to the
whole repository, however, some folks have been editing files in
projects they were not supposed to.
How can I ONLY and
S I wrote:
cvs_acls? Ok thanks. I have to research that. Is that a 3rd party tool
or part of CVS?
It's part of the source code distributed from www.cvshome.org. Download
the tarball (or check out the source) and cvs_acls will be in a
directory named 'contrib'.
cvs_acls provides more
Russ Sherk wrote:
On 6/16/05, Jim Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious - what use could this information possibly be, anyway?
Usually this information is used by managers to determine churn.
Bigger churn (more files/lines changed) means bigger risk.
Not if there's a proper set
Aaron Jackson wrote:
Ok, if there is a directory in a project that had three files in it and
they were all removed to the attic with cvs rm at different times and
you want to recover all three files (say 3 could be 100+ files in some
cases) but they all have different versions on them. How
S I wrote:
Here's another question I have on the same topic:
If a file is removed from CVS properly (by rm, cvs rm, cvs ci), what
gets committed to the Attic exactly? Both the file and its sister
comapnion file,v or just the latter?
The original file is never copied into the repository.
rakesh mailgroups wrote:
Hi all,
I have found branches that i have created in cvs are not showing for
other users and vice versa.
Does anyone know why this is?
I have never heard of such a problem.
What exactly do you mean by not showing for other users?
Please provide more details:
Hridyesh Pant wrote:
Thanks a lot Jim.
Is this version of cvs is stable?
right now we are using cvs 1.11.17.
Is is ok for me to go 1.12 version?
It should be, yes. 1.12 is very close to being promoted to the next
stable version.
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Guillaume Rousse wrote:
I had a small look in the list archive and in the on-line manual without
being able to find an answer: can I trigger several actions with a
single commit ?
My own tries make me think that only the first line with a regexp
matching the commit directory is used, and
Hridyesh Pant wrote:
Hi Jim,
As per ur suggestion i made cvsadmin group.but now the user can not execute cvsadmin
-l filename to lock the file.
CVS 1.12 can be configured to allow non-admin users to execute specific
cvs admin sub-commands. Have a look at the UserAdminOptions at
Rondal Ellifritt wrote:
I have recently been hired into an existing development group. One of my
tasks is to get the group using version control.
Quite a challenge, from your description.
Maarten has given you some excellent tips. Out of all of these, I think
your first priority *has* to be to
Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 03:58:12PM -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote:
What version of client and server are you using?
Both are 1.12.9
Hmmm... I just tried it with 1.12.12, and it worked OK. Can you upgrade
to the latest versions and try again?
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Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
I have a CVS module (named ldas) where I would like to merge the
contents of a branch into the trunk. According to the documentation,
is seems that I should be able to du this using cvs update -j
branch-tag.
Todd Foster wrote:
I am trying to determine how pserver authentication works. I understand
when you do a cvs login that it creates ~/.cvspass file. Therefore, I'm
guessing that whenever you are running cvs commands cvs blindly combines
the USER from whichever method wins (either using the
Hridyesh Pant wrote:
Hi Jim,
I need ur help,some how i deleted 1.1 revision of some files.can i restore this
revision.
The only way to actually delete a revision of a file is using the 'cvs
admin -o' command. There is no way to undo that action, except by
restoring the repository file from your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been thinking about this since reading it on CM Crossroads this
morning. I don't think it would be too terribly complicated. On the
server side, I think it's just a matter of packing up the entire
repository and ftp'ing it to the new server (or just copying it if
Mychael Scribner wrote:
I have a simply little question. I do a lot of web based project that often
have images. Is their and do's or don'ts that I be watching for with images.
Should I not include them when I import a project?
There's no reason to exclude them. Just make sure you mark them as
Pedro Hernandez wrote:
Hello folks!
cvs 1.11.20 on Whitebox Linux 3
I'm trying to make a directory watched by default, reading in
Cederqvist
Command: cvs watch on [-lR] [files]...
...
Is this a bug in cvs, the doc or in my head?
It's a bug in CVS. The workaround is to issue the command from within
Mark D. Baushke wrote:
If you see that you are indeed configured to use
TopLevelAdmin=yes, then Arno Schuring's analysis
that you are unable to create and populate a
C:\CVS directory is likely the root-cause of your
problem.
I think the analysis Arno provided is exactly right, and has nothing to
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
The more I look into CVS the less I understand. Perhaps you can help me...
When using -r HEAD I do not seem to get the latest revision on the trunk:
As you've found, 'HEAD' means the latest revision on the trunk for all
commands except 'diff', where it means the latest
SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote:
Hi all,
How Branch Numbers are formed Internally in CVS.
I read the manual it is really confusing.
We have two branches, after we created the second branch, when the
developers start committing the files,
I found out that one file is committed with 1.12.2.1
SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote:
Hi
I need to lock a Branch, so that no one can check out or check in some
information into it.
First of all, do you really need to lock the branch? Can you not trust
your developers?
I don't have access to the CVS host machine, but I am connecting it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is like the third reference I've seen to a contrib directory...
where is it?
As I said, it's in the source code distribution. Download the source
code from www.cvshome.org.
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David Leskovac wrote:
Sorry for the basic question but I need to implement a new branch
naming scheme want to make sure I am doing this correctly.
To start this process, I need to rename several existing branches.
Would this work for each branch to be renamed?:
cvs rtag -b -r original_branch_name
Dean Do wrote:
Hi,
I have a question on access control. Is there a way to prevent all commits
on the main trunk and allow commits on branches only? Once the changes on
the branch are reviewed and approved for merging into the main trunk, then
the main trunk can be manually opened up temporarily
(gnu.cvs.help trimmed from recipient list; I can't access it)
HSP wrote:
hello, i downloaded cvs-1-11-20.zip from https://ccvs.cvshome.org but
i can´t find information about wich windows versions are supported. Is
Windows 2003 server suitable for cvs server ?
thanks in advance!!
If you're using
Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
2) I could do with a better under standing of the directory locks;
pointers? I've read the top of lock.c but it still doesn't tell me
enough; for example there seem to be multiple lock files used - but
then surely the creation of them isn't atomic? Or is there
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The example they give is with unix, how would I do it with linux
(Fedora C3, I think it is).
Same principle. Remember, Linus *is* a port of UNIX.
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