Newbie question

2005-07-06 Thread Madhavi Thottempudi
Hello everyone! I am trying to install CVS. Before starting I want to check few things and hopefully U guys have answers. My questions are: 1. CVS (linux) vs CVSNT (windows) - Which one is better performance wise, stability and reliability wise? As I haven't started the project yet, I can go

Re: Newbie question

2005-07-06 Thread Todd Denniston
Madhavi Thottempudi wrote: Hello everyone! I am trying to install CVS. Before starting I want to check few things and hopefully U guys have answers. My questions are: 1. CVS (linux) vs CVSNT (windows) - Which one is better performance wise, stability and reliability wise? As I haven't

Re: Newbie question

2005-07-06 Thread Rachel Burns
Just looking at the two mailing list - cvsnt and info-cvs I can see lot more people in distressed about CVSNT stability. And I am biased against Windows as a stable platform compared to Linux. Many of the 3rd party/commercial tools are better supported on CVS than CVSNT imho. Peformance wise

newbie question

2005-06-21 Thread Jay
Hi, I used wincvs to update the opencv source on my winndows machine. Wincvs exited with code 0 , success.While the cvs was checking for now new updates...it displayed cvs checkout: Updating opencv/cv/src But when i checked the files in the folder they are the same. What wrong am i

RE: newbie question : regarding installation

2005-06-07 Thread Arthur Barrett
or http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt Regards, Arthur Barrett -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael EchavezSent: Monday, 6 June 2005 1:38 AMTo: cvsSubject: newbie question : regarding installationHi

newbie question : regarding installation

2005-06-05 Thread Michael Echavez
Hi everyone, Greetings! I was thinking of using cvs for one of my projects. And i was wondering if any of you got an advice as to how i would install cvs for windows xp. There's a lot of web sites that recommend different approaches in doing so. Since most of them differ in the software (i.e.,

RE: newbie question : regarding installation

2005-06-05 Thread S I
: Michael Echavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Michael Echavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cvs info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: newbie question : regarding installation Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 23:38:14 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by mc2-f9.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC

newbie question: issues with gserver method

2005-04-08 Thread Satya Prasad D.V
Hi, I have configured CVS with gssapi and am using gserver connection method to access the server. I have an empty passwd file in CVSROOT and set systemauth=no in config file to ensure kerberos auth is used. I am able to connect to server with kerberos tickets and check out and checkin code.

Re: RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-02-07 Thread russ . sherk
Spiro: Unified diff format will not solve the posters problem of safely committing arbitrary files. It will also create more work. As Pierre stated, Nestor should implement tighter guidelines for obtaining and submitting sources. This can be difficult if dealing with 3rdparty dev-co's (or

Re: RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-01-31 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:47:30PM + Pierre Asselin wrote: If you can't determine the revision or tag from which to branch, you probably need to tighten your controls a little... Another possiblity is to tell all your external contributors to send in only patches, never the

RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-01-30 Thread Néstor Boscán
Hi I have been using CVS for some time and have encounter problems when somebody gives me a file that I have to replaced in my CVS sandbox. This always happens because sometimes I have people outside the organization and they send new versions of files that I have to replace in the sandbox

Re: RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-01-30 Thread Pierre Asselin
N?stor Bosc?n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using CVS for some time and have encounter problems when somebody gives me a file that I have to replaced in my CVS sandbox. This always happens because sometimes I have people outside the organization and they send new versions of files

Re: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-17 Thread Bret A Cooper
:17:10 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: newbie question on initializing repository To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this case, I'd import a blank project, and then use cvs add in a script to add the files, using the -kb option accordingly. Here's a c-shell pseudo-code # Assume *.h and *.cpp

newbie question: CVS server upgrade

2004-06-10 Thread mark hanna
Hello everyone, I am reasonably new to CVS and am looking for some tips/handy hints for upgrading the CVS server. can anybody give me any help or advice please ? my OS is : SunOS xultra1 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2System = SunOS Node = xultra1 Release = 5.8 Thanks in

Re: newbie question: CVS server upgrade

2004-06-10 Thread Alex v . Below
Download the latest source, unpack it, cd into the directory: ./configure make su make install (Some systems allow sudo make install) HTH Alex Am 10.06.2004 um 12:16 schrieb mark hanna: Hello everyone, I am reasonably new to CVS and am looking for some tips/handy hints for upgrading the CVS

Re: newbie question: CVS server upgrade

2004-06-10 Thread Larry Jones
Alex v.Below writes: Download the latest source, unpack it, cd into the directory: ./configure make su make install cvs init It hasn't been strictly required so far, but it's a good idea. It gives the new CVS a chance to update the existing repository should the format change, add new

Re: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-08 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:34:02PM -0400 Larry Jones wrote: However, I now believe its not that simple, as the binary files(only) must be initialized with the -kb option. Is that correct? If so, any suggestions on the simplest/easiest to go about this? If you can distinguish

newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-07 Thread Bret A Cooper
Hello, This is a first time user question. We have collected all of our source files within a directory structure and are ready to initialize the cvs repository. There are a couple thousand files. Roughly 20% are binary type files and are scattered around throughout various directories. My

RE: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-07 Thread Christopher.Fouts
ion though -chris -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bret A CooperSent: Monday, June 07, 2004 4:47 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: newbie question on initializing repositoryHello, This is a first time user question. We have

Re: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Bret A Cooper writes: My original plan was to run the cvs init command from the topmost directory and be done. I think you mean cvs import -- init just creates a repository, it does not populate it with user files. However, I now believe its not that simple, as the binary files(only) must

RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Schrum, Allan (Allan)
Such as core for files and core/ for directories? -Allan -Original Message- From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.) Spiro Trikaliotis wrote

RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 09:43 AM 5/10/2004, Jim.Hyslop wrote: I wonder if this could be solved by modifying the behaviour of .cvsignore - if we could tell CVS to ignore *files* named 'core' but not *directories* named 'core', then the problem would go away altogether. We still need a way to ignore directories, though.

Re: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello Jim, * On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:43:09AM -0400 Jim.Hyslop wrote: Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: To the maintainer(s) of the manual: Wouldn't it be good to add a hint to http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.15/cvs_13.html#SEC104 as this really seems to be a FAQ, and it is

RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

2004-05-10 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Frederic Brehm wrote: At 09:43 AM 5/10/2004, Jim.Hyslop wrote: I wonder if this could be solved by modifying the behaviour of .cvsignore - if we could tell CVS to ignore *files* named 'core' but not *directories* named 'core', then the problem would go away altogether. We still need a

A newbie question.

2004-05-09 Thread du allen
Hi there, I am using cvs in red hat 9.0. It worked pretty well for my application project. But when I tried to use it to manage my linux kernel source tree,it went wrong. When I tried to import the kernel source tree, some files were lost. For example I couldn't find the subdirectory of

Re: A newbie question.

2004-05-09 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 06:37:15PM +0800 du allen wrote: When I tried to import the kernel source tree, some files were lost. For example I couldn't find the subdirectory of linux-2.6.0/sound/core in the repository. [...] I searched the archives but found no answer. But it is

Re: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-19 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:40:03AM -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem i'm facing is that custom_config.php file contains generic config values that needs to be modified by every developer/user to get the software working, but I don't want that nobody updates the

Re: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-19 Thread Luis Mariano Luporini
I like that. Now I remember co'ing sources from different software where I found a config directory with files ending with ".dist" names. I suppose what you say explained it. Great thanks Spiro! Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, * On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:40:03AM -0300 [EMAIL

Re: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-19 Thread Luis Mariano Luporini
Jim, I think this way a can handle my problem. As I told Spiro, I remember co'ing sources from different software where I found a config directory with files ending with .dist names and i suppose what you say explained it. It's posible to customize a php script from env variables but I prefer

RE: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem i'm facing is that custom_config.php file contains generic config values that needs to be modified by every developer/user to get the software working, but I don't want that nobody updates the repository with a custom user/passwd pair, for

RE: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Derek Robert Price wrote: Jim.Hyslop wrote: Or, is it possible to configure a .php file to take the password from an environment variable? I haven't been following this whole discussion, but storing passwords in environment variables is generally a Bad Thing (TM). Yes, of course.

Re: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-19 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim.Hyslop wrote: Or, is it possible to configure a .php file to take the password from an environment variable? I haven't been following this whole discussion, but storing passwords in environment variables is generally a Bad Thing (TM). Some

Re: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-19 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I didn't think so, but since it was brought up I thought it best to point it out in case you didn't know. :) Derek Luis Mariano Luporini wrote: Derek: You're totally right but anyway it was not the point of the discussion. Regards,

Re: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-19 Thread lluporini
Thanks Derek. Luis. Mensaje citado por Derek Robert Price [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I didn't think so, but since it was brought up I thought it best to point it out in case you didn't know. :) Derek Luis Mariano Luporini wrote: Derek:

RE: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-18 Thread Conrad T. Pino
My question is: is there a way to prevent a file/directory from being commited when someone does a project wide commit? http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_18.html#SEC165 Thanks in advance. You're welcome. Luis. Conrad

RE: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-18 Thread lluporini
Thanks Conrad! I think I could implement a script that checks for restricated file names in the commit being issued and returns a non-zero in some cases. But what about this scenario: 1. Server must accept all changes from developers that commit changed files 2. Developers should take care of

RE: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-18 Thread Conrad T. Pino
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this could be implemented commiting just the desired files without recursion but I wonder if there's something like the file .cvsignore that applies to updates and checkouts but not to commits. Look at modules with program options

RE: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-18 Thread lluporini
Ok. but using I think it doesn't work to prevent a commit on certain file of the working copy based on an explicity rule set locally. I'm looking for something like .cvsignore (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_18.html#SEC176) that applies to commits. Is there a way to define

RE: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-18 Thread Conrad T. Pino
Hi Luis, I'm looking for something like .cvsignore (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_18.html#SEC176) that applies to commits. Is there a way to define something like .cvscommitignore containing a line per file/dir (for example custom_config.php) that gets read every time a

RE: Newbie question: commit

2004-04-18 Thread lluporini
Conrad, I'm really pleased with your help on this. I'll try to figure out how to handle this in my project (I thought it was a common situation when dealing with development controled by CVS). Thanks ones again. Luis. Mensaje citado por Conrad T. Pino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Luis, I'm

Newbie question: commit

2004-04-17 Thread lluporini
I'm trying to get my development project in php/javascript into cvs. My project has this directory structure: / somefile.html otherfile.php /modules files.* /doc files.* /someotherdir otherfiles.* /config custom_config.php

newbie question

2004-01-31 Thread Pankaj Garg
I am a new user of CVS. I setup CVS server on my linux box. I want two users to have check-in access to my repository and i want to use SSH. To use SSH i need to make shell accounts for those two users. Now because these two users have shell account and have write access to my repository, they

Re: newbie question regarding cvs init

2003-11-25 Thread Ed Avis
Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm aware from the docs that the standard practice is to create an empty new CVS repository, and populate it from there with cvs import. however, is it feasible (or just plain bad practice) to create a new repository over top of an existing directory

newbie question regarding cvs init

2003-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hard to believe but i have a question regarding creating a new repository with cvs init. i'm aware from the docs that the standard practice is to create an empty new CVS repository, and populate it from there with cvs import. however, is it feasible (or just plain bad practice) to create a

Re: newbie question regarding cvs init

2003-11-23 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm aware from the docs that the standard practice is to create an empty new CVS repository, and populate it from there with cvs import. That is one of many methods that people use to populate

Newbie question

2003-03-18 Thread Xicheng Jia
May anyone tell me how to checkout just one file from lots of files with the same revision number. say: I want to checkout a file named run.c from the module, but there are many other files in the same module(also in the same directory, and with the same revision). Also, how to checkout files

Re: Newbie question

2003-03-18 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Xicheng Jia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May anyone tell me how to checkout just one file from lots of files with the same revision number. say: I want to checkout a file named run.c from the module, but there are many other files in the same module(also in the same directory, and with the same

WinCVS installation problem (newbie question)

2002-12-27 Thread David Gagnon
Hello, I am new to CVS and I try to install WinCVS on a PC. The server is an OSX machine and it is working perfectly with MacCVS Pro client. But, on the PC, it seem that the ssh connection is impossible with the server. For example, when I try to do a simple check-out command, I obtain

RE: WinCVS installation problem (newbie question)

2002-12-27 Thread Brian Kowald
: WinCVS installation problem (newbie question) Hello, I am new to CVS and I try to install WinCVS on a PC. The server is an OSX machine and it is working perfectly with MacCVS Pro client. But, on the PC, it seem that the ssh connection is impossible with the server. For example, when I try to do

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-19 Thread Robert Koster
, 2002 at 22:20:39 (-0800), Mike Ayers wrote: ] Subject: Re: Newbie question re: ssh Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without keys will forcibly invoke username/password

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-19 Thread Kenneth Loafman
method, because the passwords are being transmitted over ssh? One of the cons is that the password will need to be entered frequently? Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/16 2:20 PM [ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 22:20:39 (-0800), Mike Ayers wrote: ] Subject: Re: Newbie question re: ssh

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-19 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 00:25, Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without keys will forcibly invoke username/password login, which will gag the CVS client. Huh? I

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 08:25:45 (-0500), Robert Koster wrote: ] Subject: Re: Newbie question re: ssh So, one of the pros of this approach is that it is more secure than the :pserver method, because the passwords are being transmitted over ssh? The password encapsulation

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-16 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 22:20:39 (-0800), Mike Ayers wrote: ] Subject: Re: Newbie question re: ssh Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without keys

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 22:20:39 (-0800), Mike Ayers wrote: ] Subject: Re: Newbie question re: ssh Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without keys will forcibly invoke username/password login, which will gag the CVS client. /|/|ike

Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-13 Thread Robert Koster
I am very new to cvs. I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Also, is anybody using CVS in the Sun One Studio (formerly Forte for Java) IDE? Any special considerations, helpful hints, words of wisdom, etc.? Thanks, Bob

Newbie question : common/shared objects

2002-09-26 Thread Jay Yarbrough
I'm quite new to using CVS. Our applications rely on common source, and built products alike. Some of these are 3rd party (dlls, jars, source, etc.) and some are internally developed. For instance, to build release 1.2 of product X, I need release 3.4 of product A, release 5.4 of product B,

Re: Newbie question : common/shared objects

2002-09-26 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 10:15 AM 9/26/2002, Jay Yarbrough wrote: To build release 2.1 of Product Y, I will use release 3.4 of product A, release 5.3 of product B, and release 2.0 of product D. How is this typically handled within CVS? Make each product a separate module. Then you can tag each release of each

Re: Newbie question : common/shared objects

2002-09-26 Thread Todd Denniston
Jay Yarbrough wrote: I'm quite new to using CVS. Our applications rely on common source, and built products alike. Some of these are 3rd party (dlls, jars, source, etc.) and some are internally developed. For instance, to build release 1.2 of product X, I need release 3.4 of product

Re: Newbie question : common/shared objects

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Ayers
Jay Yarbrough wrote: I'm quite new to using CVS. Our applications rely on common source, and built products alike. Some of these are 3rd party (dlls, jars, source, etc.) and some are internally developed. For instance, to build release 1.2 of product X, I need release 3.4 of product A,

Re: Newbie question

2002-08-28 Thread Zieg, Mark
From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cvs%40gnu.org/msg21543.html and my reply to that message. Now that's the most useful post I've seen since I subscribed. A link to a _searchable_ archive. The one linked from the bottom of every message is

Re: newbie question

2002-03-25 Thread Mark A. Flacy
info cvs Look for Starting a new project. (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_3.html#SEC38 gives the same information) It appears that you should also look at http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC31 ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: newbie question

2002-03-25 Thread Jesús M. NAVARRO
Hi, Joseph Joseph G. Mercado wrote: I cant log now to my server remotely using cvs -d :pserver:cvs@host:/usr/local/cvs/repository login and prompt me to put the password,once i inputted the password, what next? Well, then I *guess* what you try to tell us is that you *can* log to your

newbie question

2002-03-24 Thread Joseph G. Mercado
I cant log now to my server remotely using cvs -d :pserver:cvs@host:/usr/local/cvs/repository login and prompt me to put the password,once i inputted the password, what next? i want to test cvs?how do i do that?sample would be appreciated\ Many Thanks joe

Re: Newbie question

2002-03-04 Thread Larry Jones
Isak Lyberth writes: Does CVS run under Windows, and are there graphical administration tools or at least graphical Windows clients? Yes, see the documentation (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/), particularly the add-ons page, and http://www.wincvs.org/. -Larry Jones Do you think God lets you

Newbie question

2002-03-03 Thread Isak Lyberth
Does CVS run under Windows, and are there graphical administration tools or at least graphical Windows clients? Regards Isak ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

General newbie question about configuration control of items external to (but required by) projects

2002-02-21 Thread Schlitz
I was wondering if anyone with experience in CM using CVS could share opinions/tips/best practices on storing the following in version control: -App Servers -Compilers -JDK and other language distributions... -other 3rd party apps/etc... For these, is it a good idea to just have some versioned

Re: General newbie question about configuration control of items external to (but required by) projects

2002-02-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 10:41:10 (GMT), Schlitz wrote: ] Subject: General newbie question about configuration control of items external to (but required by) projects I was wondering if anyone with experience in CM using CVS could share opinions/tips/best practices on storing

Re: Newbie question: cannot open CVS/Root: No such file or directory error

2002-02-12 Thread Larry Jones
Schlitz writes: Actually, it is on a network shared drive, not local to my machine. Is this commonly a cause of such problems? Yes. Network file systems are notoriously flaky. -Larry Jones I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian. -- Calvin

Newbie question

2002-01-03 Thread Carl Montgomery
Hello, I've got a quick (I hope) newbie question, please forgive and ignore me if I'm posting this to the wrong list. I've recently taken over a CVS project from a former employee. I'm new to CVS administration and I didn't set this project up, so I'm not exactly sure what the intended plan

Newbie Question.....

2001-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone I am new to CVS please help me out with this problem. I have a few files that i want to checkin the CVS everytime i try to CVS add the files it says : [vikas@beta channel]$ lscreate-confirm.jsp create.jsp delete.jsp edit-confirm.jsp edit.jsp [vikas@beta channel]$ cvs add

Newbie Question

2001-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone I am new to CVS please help me out with this problem. I have a few files that i want to checkin the CVS everytime i try to CVS add the files it says : [vikas@beta channel]$ lscreate-confirm.jsp create.jsp delete.jsp edit-confirm.jsp edit.jsp [vikas@beta channel]$ cvs

Re: Newbie Question

2001-11-22 Thread Kaz Kylheku
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Don't do that, please turn off your MIME encoding! [vikas@beta channel]$ ls create-confirm.jsp create.jsp delete.jsp edit-confirm.jsp edit.jsp =20 [vikas@beta channel]$ cvs add *.jsp cvs add:

Re: Newbie Question

2001-11-22 Thread Gianni Mariani
You first need to check out from the repository if you wish to cvs add ! Normally the first thing you do is cvs import - then cvs checkout. check out: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_3.html#SEC39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I am new to CVS please help me out with

A newbie question about branches

2001-11-20 Thread Andrés
I have a project under CVS version control. Right now I am planning to make a dramatic change on a previous release of the project, but I don't want to affect the main trunk. I would think that it is appropiate to create a new branch on that previous release, and make modifications to the

RE: A newbie question about branches

2001-11-20 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Elbert Andrés Messa Díaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A newbie question about branches I have a project under CVS version control. Right now I am planning to make a dramatic change

Re: remote cvs newbie question

2001-11-10 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:41:56PM -0500, Robert Nikander wrote: I would like to use CVS to keep up with the 'bleeding edge' code for some of these open-source development projects. Basically my question is... can CVS be used to just download the differences every few days, without getting

remote cvs newbie question

2001-11-10 Thread Robert Nikander
Hi, I would like to use CVS to keep up with the 'bleeding edge' code for some of these open-source development projects. Basically my question is... can CVS be used to just download the differences every few days, without getting all the files? And if so, what is the best way? Or do I need a

newbie question about undo changes

2001-10-31 Thread Lasterra
I checkout a file from cvs, a made some changes but them i took care that this changes are bad, what must i do in this situation if i like to recover the version of the CVS server? A checkout? or Delete the file from my repository and them a checkout or another... Thanks

Re: newbie question about undo changes

2001-10-31 Thread Larry Jones
Lasterra writes: I checkout a file from cvs, a made some changes but them i took care that this changes are bad, what must i do in this situation if i like to recover the version of the CVS server? You can use update -C to overwrite your locally modified file with a new copy from the

newbie question

2001-09-18 Thread r w
Hello all, Im not on the list so please cc me on the answer. Im configuring cvs on AIX 4.3.3 and im having a bit of difficulty with adding my first module. TRIDEVL:root:/cvs add f cvs add: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs [add aborted]: no repository who/what

Re: Stupid newbie question

2001-06-12 Thread Derek R. Price
Matt Keyes wrote: Hey all... If I'm using Debian Linux, should I download the .gz file or the .rpm?I thought Debian didn't use rpm, rather apt, but I'm not sure... You'll want the .gz, though if you want to figure out how to build a debian package and submit the conf file, we'd welcome the

Re: [Newbie question] When LOGIN fails

2001-05-30 Thread Derek R. Price
David A. Cobb wrote: Today I was working with a repository at the other end of an SSH tunnel. My CVS LOGIN was rejected: server denied access to ${CVSROOT} However, while experimenting with Xemacs/PCL-CVS I requested to STATUS, and then to UPDATE my directories. Both functions apparently

[Newbie Question] Flag records

2001-05-29 Thread David A. Cobb
I understand from reading here that CVS includes all of RCS, in one way or another. Are lines such as $ID$ something and $DATE$ something features of RCS? And how do they get there in the first place? David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate, All around nice guy. Get my PGP

[Newbie question] When LOGIN fails

2001-05-29 Thread David A. Cobb
Today I was working with a repository at the other end of an SSH tunnel. My CVS LOGIN was rejected: server denied access to ${CVSROOT} However, while experimenting with Xemacs/PCL-CVS I requested to STATUS, and then to UPDATE my directories. Both functions apparently worked. Does this

NEWBIE question: checkout, sub-modules

2001-04-25 Thread Luna, Glen
Hello, I have a question that I'm sure others have asked but I can't seem to find an answer for. From an existing module, I want to checkout a subset of submodules under a different module name. For simplicity's sake I'll call the existing modulevegetables (not true names). The vegetables

Re: NEWBIE question: checkout, sub-modules

2001-04-25 Thread Larry Jones
Luna, Glen writes: I used the following version of the checkout command cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs -d fruits vegetables/grapes vegetables/oranges I had hoped that this would result in fruits/grapes fruits/oranges Instead the result is

RE: NEWBIE question: checkout, sub-modules

2001-04-25 Thread Luna, Glen
25, 2001 4:01 PM To: Luna, Glen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NEWBIE question: checkout, sub-modules Luna, Glen writes: I used the following version of the checkout command cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs -d fruits vegetables/grapes vegetables/oranges I had hoped

Re: NEWBIE question: checkout, sub-modules

2001-04-25 Thread Larry Jones
Luna, Glen writes: Thanks Larry but it looks like what I want can't be done regardless of the number of submodules I attempt to checkout. I also forgot to mention that grapes and oranges are subdirectories (rather than simple objects) of vegetables and would be subdirs under fruits. We

Re: newbie question - specifing a group name for CVS to use on add/import

2000-10-19 Thread Noel L Yap
g the user belongs to the group of the directory). man chmod for more info. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.10.19 08:58:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: newbie question - specifing a group name for CVS to use on add/import Hi all, I'm new to CVS and also to th

Re: newbie question

2000-10-09 Thread Noel L Yap
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: newbie question Hello, I am new to CVS and trying to figure out the proper way to deal with out code and checking it in and out of CVS. Most of the stuff we'll be putting in CVS will be web-based files, like html, php, etc. So here's

Re: newbie question

2000-10-09 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: I wouldn't use CVS as an install tool. IMHO, it would be much cleaner if you checked out your stuff into a temporary directory, then installed from there (possibly as easy as a recursive copy of everything minus the CVS subdirectories). I might use CVS as my installer, as

RE: Newbie Question - WinCVS

2000-06-01 Thread Anthony E. Glover
- From: Larry Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Question - WinCVS Anthony E. Glover writes: cvs -d :ext:me@machine:/home/cm/CVS co -c I get the following response: ' from cvs server warning

Re: Newbie Question - WinCVS

2000-06-01 Thread Larry Jones
Anthony E. Glover writes: Does anyone know of a suitable rsh to use with WinCVS when connecting to a Linux server? If the internal rsh client is supported on Windows (and I think it is), you can use :server: instead of :ext:. -Larry Jones ...That would be pretty cool, if they weren't out

RE: Newbie Question - WinCVS

2000-06-01 Thread Anthony E. Glover
I was just trying that. It works great. Thanks for the help. Tony -Original Message- From: Larry Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Question - WinCVS Anthony E. Glover writes

Newbie Question - WinCVS

2000-05-31 Thread Anthony E. Glover
I am new to using CVS and am in the process of trying to use WinCVS to connect to a linux server on which I have a repository already set up. I am starting with 'ext'/rsh as my connection method; however, when I try a command such as: cvs -d :ext:me@machine:/home/cm/CVS co -c I get the