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
.? My other question is how do i rebuild the files that have been updated on a windows machine. PLease help thanks Jay ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Tag/branch question

2005-06-15 Thread Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOM
I've got some difficulty in understanding how to tag dead revisions such that branch merges will work. Consider this: Initial state (version, tag): 1.3 LAST_MERGED 1.4 REL_1 Now merge on some branch: cd branch... cvs up -j LAST_MERGED -j REL_1 cvs rtag -F -r REL_1

Re: Question about CVS-SSH

2005-06-13 Thread Asbjørn Sæbø
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:23:03PM -0400, Huaer XC wrote: Dear CVS users: I am a newbie in this field. And I am trying to setup CVS on a Linux Mandrake server, and maintain my codes through SSH by different PCs including Win-XP and Linux system. (I followed a instruction on the following

Question about CVS-SSH

2005-06-10 Thread Huaer XC
Dear CVS users: I am a newbie in this field. And I am trying to setup CVS on a Linux Mandrake server, and maintain my codes through SSH by different PCs including Win-XP and Linux system. (I followed a instruction on the following link:

RE: Question about directory re-use (cvs status error)

2005-06-10 Thread Todd Foster
Ok, This error goes away if I make the CVSROOT/EmptyDir group writeable. However, I'm curious why CVS had to resort to using the EmptyDir for this directory? The information contained in the CVS/Root and CVS/Repository files was enough to correctly identify the directory in the repository.

Question about directory re-use (cvs status error)

2005-06-09 Thread Todd Foster
We've got several projects that include some global tools. At this transition, I am trying to take one of the tools that we've developed in our project, push it out into the global area and check it back out into our project's working directory. I would really like to put this global tool

RE: question about WinCVS (was Info-cvs Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10)

2005-06-08 Thread Arthur Barrett
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santosh_Nandagiri Sent: Wednesday, 8 June 2005 4:02 PM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10 Hello, I have a question about WinCVS. Is there any way that the user is notified every time he performs a Commit

Re: question about WinCVS (was Info-cvs Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10)

2005-06-08 Thread Russ Sherk
have a question about WinCVS. Is there any way that the user is notified every time he performs a Commit to perform an Update before doing that. Eg: It may ask the user Are you sure that you want to Commit? Did you already performed an Update? This is a requirement we are having right

RE: question about WinCVS (was Info-cvs Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10)

2005-06-08 Thread Santosh_Nandagiri
: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:30 PM To: Arthur Barrett Cc: Santosh_Nandagiri; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: Re: question about WinCVS (was Info-cvs Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10) Greets. On 6/8/05, Arthur Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santosh, This is not the correct group to ask questions about WinCVS

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

Re: Sorry about this newby question

2005-06-06 Thread Todd Denniston
Jim wrote: Ah, I didn't understand the part about the attic. I'm trying to build a system that will still work when the server is off-line. I'll have to scratch my head about that one. No doubt I did the init by mistake. Before I did it, it adding caused it to yell at me about CVSROOT

Re: Sorry about this newby question

2005-06-06 Thread Todd Denniston
Jim wrote: Hello, Coming back to re-read your original post ... I note some possible confusion. I apologize in advance for what is no doubt a foolish question, but I'd greatly appreciate it if a kind soul could set me straight. I've just checked out a CVS archive (I have Fedora Core 1

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

Re: Sorry about this newby question

2005-06-04 Thread Jim
Ah, I didn't understand the part about the attic. I'm trying to build a system that will still work when the server is off-line. I'll have to scratch my head about that one. No doubt I did the init by mistake. Before I did it, it adding caused it to yell at me about CVSROOT and after it did

Sorry about this newby question

2005-06-03 Thread Jim
Hello, I apologize in advance for what is no doubt a foolish question, but I'd greatly appreciate it if a kind soul could set me straight. I've just checked out a CVS archive (I have Fedora Core 1 running on a laptop, if that matters). export CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs mkdir $CVSROOT cd

RE: Sorry about this newby question

2005-06-03 Thread Mark Priest
the checkout without doing that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:01 PM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: Sorry about this newby question Hello, I apologize in advance for what is no doubt a foolish question

Re: permissions question

2005-05-26 Thread Saurabh Bhandari
, but the software in question will only work in one place (don't ask). The problem is that each time I check something in, CVS changes the file's permissions to 755, so that my teammates can't change it. How do you control this behavior? I believe this behavior is also responsible for occasional up-to-date

permissions question

2005-05-24 Thread tomfool
Hello all: I am managing an unusual situation where we need to have several developers working on the same directory tree. Essentially I am using CVS as a logging mechanism, and to track revisions, but the software in question will only work in one place (don't ask). The problem is that each

Re: permissions question

2005-05-24 Thread Guillaume Rousse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that each time I check something in, CVS changes the file's permissions to 755, so that my teammates can't change it. How do you control this behavior? use directories setgid bit to ensure files checked in will stay group-writable. -- All warranty

CVS history question

2005-05-18 Thread Sarah Gonzales
Hello all, I am trying to set up some useful reporting for use with our CVS resources and have been asked to report on * modules that have checked out (not committed) by a specific hostname In other words, particularly for our anonymous, read only checkouts, we'd like to be able to say... that

Re: Question on branches

2005-05-15 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please do not use HTML e-mail. Zeus Crisp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, Hoping someone can help as I am a new users to CVS. I would like to know if there is a way to lock a specific branch to block commits within a CVS environment.

Question on branches

2005-05-14 Thread Zeus Crisp
Hello all, Hoping someone can help as I am a new users to CVS. I would like to know if there is a way to lock a specific branch to block commits within a CVS environment. We have an environment where we have several branches all created off main. I would like to have the ability to manage the

CVS migration question

2005-05-12 Thread Raghunath, Santhosh
I would like to know the procedure/steps to follow to do a migration of a project under the CVS repository on a Windows XP box to a CVS repository under Linux. The CVS versions are same on both the boxes. I would like to retain all the version history and log information during the

Re: CVS migration question

2005-05-12 Thread dzielke
migration question I would like to know the procedure/steps to follow to do a migration of a project under the CVS repository on a Windows XP box to a CVS repository under Linux. The CVS versions are same on both the boxes. I would like to retain all the version history and log information during

Re: CVS migration question

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hyslop
[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

RE: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-04 Thread Conrad T. Pino
From: Arthur Barrett hello, i downloaded cvs-1-11-20.zip from https://ccvs.cvshome.org but i cant find information about wich windows versions are supported. Is Windows 2003 server suitable for cvs server ? You may also need cygwin and other tools to run this version of CVS on Windows

RE: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-04 Thread Arthur Barrett
Conrad, 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 ? You may also need cygwin and other tools to run this version of CVS on Windows Server 2003. The

RE: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-04 Thread dzielke
Professional Staffing 501 W. Schrock Road Suite 207 Westerville, OH 43081 Conrad T. Pino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/2005 02:14 AM To:HSP [EMAIL PROTECTED], info-cvs@gnu.org cc: Subject:RE: Question about binary distribution The ZIP file you

Re: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-04 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arthur Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, i downloaded cvs-1-11-20.zip from https://ccvs.cvshome.org but i can=B4t find information about wich windows versions are supported. Is Windows 2003 server suitable for cvs server ? You may also

Re: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-03 Thread Jim Hyslop
(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

RE: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-03 Thread Arthur Barrett
hello, i downloaded cvs-1-11-20.zip from https://ccvs.cvshome.org but i cant find information about wich windows versions are supported. Is Windows 2003 server suitable for cvs server ? You may also need cygwin and other tools to run this version of CVS on Windows Server 2003. Alternatively

RE: Question about binary distribution

2005-05-03 Thread Conrad T. Pino
well I'm reluctant to make a recommendation and leave that to others. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of HSP Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 13:09 To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: Question about binary distribution hello, i downloaded cvs-1-11-20

Question about binary distribution

2005-05-02 Thread HSP
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!! ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

Nooby question: need help with setting CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep

2005-04-21 Thread twoeyedhuman1111
I'm trying to set the environment variable CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep. I use the export command like this in the terminal: export CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep. When I exit the terminal, (which runs the default bash) the variable cvsroot goes away. I have looked in a bunch of places which say

Re: Nooby question: need help with setting CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep

2005-04-21 Thread dzielke
04:14 PM To:info-cvs@gnu.org cc: Subject:Nooby question: need help with setting CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep I'm trying to set the environment variable CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep. I use the export command like this in the terminal: export CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep

RE: Nooby question: need help with setting CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep

2005-04-21 Thread David Leskovac
It's working just as designed. :-) Variables that stay around permanently only stay that way as long as you are logged in. I suggest adding it to your .bashrc file in your home directory. UNIX/Linux process that file every time a new terminal session is opened and will set it

Re: Nooby question: need help with setting CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs-rep

2005-04-21 Thread twoeyedhuman1111
Ahh, thank you very much :) Now I know why it doesn't work! Thank you! ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Silly question about CVS and permissions

2005-04-18 Thread Michaelis, Daniel
Folks, I'm COMPLETELY new to CVS, and am assisting the CVS administrator configure the tool on a Linux server. I've got a cursory understanding of the CVSROOT directory structure; my question is one of permissions. I realize that this has probably been addressed in the past, but reading

Re: Silly question about CVS and permissions

2005-04-18 Thread Todd Denniston
Michaelis, Daniel 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! SNIP there doesn't seem to be anything that prevents User1 from going into the ProjectDir1/bin directory and removing file2

RE: Silly question about CVS and permissions

2005-04-18 Thread Michaelis, Daniel
800 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.5187 (phone) 410.659.9799 (fax) -Original Message- From: Todd Denniston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:15 PM To: Michaelis, Daniel Cc: 'info-cvs@gnu.org' Subject: Re: Silly question about CVS and permissions Michaelis, Daniel

Re: Silly question about CVS and permissions

2005-04-18 Thread Todd Denniston
Michaelis, Daniel wrote: Todd, Thanks for the answers. Regarding your comments, my intent is less to provide a secure environment (we don't expose cvs outside the internal network), and I'm not terribly worried about malicious destruction of data; I'm much more concerned with the

RE: Newbie cvs question - large project

2005-04-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies. Regarding the 'millions of source files' remark - sorry, but what I meant was my project has thousands (2000+) of source files, with a combined size (including bitmap resources etc) of hundreds of megabytes. Ah, that sounds much more sane and

Re: Newbie cvs question - large project

2005-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Jim, Alan Thanks for the replies. Regarding the 'millions of source files' remark - sorry, but what I meant was my project has thousands (2000+) of source files, with a combined size (including bitmap resources etc) of hundreds of megabytes. That said, could you give a tip on what's the best

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.

Newbie cvs question - large project

2005-04-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
project everytime are certainly not feasible. To overcome this, I was thinking of letting each programmer works on his/her own part of the code, so after the initial checking out of the whole project (as described in my first question), each programmer will only modify/commit his/her own codes

RE: Newbie cvs question - large project

2005-04-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
question), each programmer will only modify/commit his/her own codes. The drawback of this is of course nobody will have the complete newest version of the project. Is there a better way to do this? The mind boggles. *Millions* of source files? May I ask what kind of project this is? Your project

Re: Newbie cvs question - large project

2005-04-08 Thread Alan Dayley
Jim.Hyslop wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --[clip]-- 2. As our project is very large, with millions of source files (literally), performing cvs release and checking out the whole project --[clip]-- The mind boggles. *Millions* of source files? May I ask what kind of project this is? Yes, please.

A question about tags and dates

2005-04-07 Thread Lynch, Harold
Title: A question about tags and dates I think that this has been covered before, but I havn't been able to dig a definitive answer out of the docs or the FAQ so please bear with me. 1) Is it possible to tag a branch by date/time? (i.e will this put a tag SOMETAG on BRANCH_ONE

Question

2005-03-31 Thread Mark Lancisi
). In order to speed things up, I'd like to set up a cvs read only mirror copy of the repository at the offsite that stays up to date automatically with the master repository. That way the offsite lab can checkout test suites without having to go through the pipe. My question is, does cvs support

quick question

2005-02-22 Thread Jean-Pierre Sevigny
Hi, Is there a way to detect if a tag is a tag or a branch, with taginfo? Thanks! ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: quick question

2005-02-22 Thread ibr
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:52:35PM -0500, Jean-Pierre Sevigny wrote: Is there a way to detect if a tag is a tag or a branch, with taginfo? cvs status -v somefile? With kind regards, Baurzhan. ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

How to Setup CVSROOT/modules Question

2005-02-10 Thread Wang, Mary Y
Title: Message Hi All, I was able to set up a CVS repository for my users and I'm very new in CVS. One user mentioned that he wants CVSROOT/modules capability to be working so that he can fetch a list of modules in the CVS repository. I have read some where this should be done by the

RE: How to Setup CVSROOT/modules Question

2005-02-10 Thread Christopher.Fouts
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wang, Mary YSent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:23 PMTo: info-cvs@gnu.orgSubject: How to Setup CVSROOT/modules Question Hi All, I was able to set up a CVS repository for my users and I'm very new in CVS. One user mentioned that he wants CVSROOT

Question About CVS

2005-02-07 Thread Jacky Cheang
Hi, How does the CVS work? I have read the documentation by Jim Blandy (https://www.cvshome.org/docs/blandy.html) but it doesn't say how the modified source code is updated into the server. Does it update to the server via HTTP or FTP connections? Our company is currently looking for a HTTP

Re: Question About CVS

2005-02-07 Thread Larry Jones
Jacky Cheang writes: Does it update to the server via HTTP or FTP connections? No. Remote access is via a remote command facility like rsh or ssh, or a proprietary protocol (pserver). Of those, only ssh is recommended for use across the public internet. I believe the current feature release

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: Merge question

2005-01-27 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Christopher Fouts wrote: This is done in userA's directory structure, which is based on branchA correct? So no userA's files now have userB's changes right? And now for the trunk to get userA's changes as well I do a ... cvs co proj cvs up -j branchA Correct? The first time,

RE: Merge question

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher.Fouts
Thanks to ALL. I understand perfectly now, at least more so than yesterday! :) -chris -Original Message- From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:13 AM To: Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC); info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Merge question Christopher

Merge question

2005-01-26 Thread Christopher.Fouts
When merging 2 branches, say HEAD to branchB, where branchB contains files NOT YET in HEAD, the branchA files get deleted. Any way to prevent this? cvs up options??? -j branchA -j HEAD proj IOW, what options do I need? -- Chris T Fouts

Re: Merge question

2005-01-26 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When merging 2 branches, say HEAD to branchB, where branchB contains files NOT YET in HEAD, the branchA files get deleted. Any way to prevent this? cvs up options??? -j branchA -j HEAD proj IOW, what options do I need? The ones you have, but you have to

RE: Merge question

2005-01-26 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Chris Fouts wrote: When merging 2 branches, say HEAD to branchB, where branchB contains files NOT YET in HEAD, the branchA files get deleted. Any way to prevent this? cvs up options??? -j branchA -j HEAD proj This tells CVS Take the difference between the tip of branchA and the tip of

RE: Merge question

2005-01-26 Thread Christopher.Fouts
Of Jim.Hyslop Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:18 PM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Merge question Chris Fouts wrote: When merging 2 branches, say HEAD to branchB, where branchB contains files NOT YET in HEAD, the branchA files get deleted. Any way to prevent this? cvs up options

RE: Merge question

2005-01-26 Thread Jim.Hyslop
++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts ) -chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Jim.Hyslop Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:18 PM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Merge question Chris Fouts wrote: When merging

Re: Merge question

2005-01-26 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand perfectly what the cvs command I outlined does. It ain't the things you don't know that get you in trouble, it's the things you know that just ain't so. You do *not* understand what the CVS command you outlined does. For simplicity, take just 2 users,

fileInfoGenerated method usage question

2005-01-25 Thread Joao Ronaldo
Hi, folks. I am having trouble in capturing the output of a EditorsCommand. I have registered a CVSAdapter within my Client (client.getEventManager().addCVSListener(myListener); ), before executing the command. However, the output of the EditorsCommand is send through the

Re: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek Price writes: Well, fixing it this way would put us back in the position where checkouts and updates could sometimes report that tags don't exist when they do. I think this is worse than not checking out any data when the tag doesn't exist in the project or

RE: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-20 Thread Christopher.Fouts
] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:56 PM To: Derek Price Cc: Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC); info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: Re: Question re: deleted tags Derek Price writes: Since tag deletion is considered a relatively rare operation (as well it should be), no one has ever bother to write

RE: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-20 Thread Rick Genter
, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:04 AM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Question re: deleted

RE: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-20 Thread Christopher.Fouts
Yep, I should've know that because I've seen the real tags in the ,v files. Thanks!!! -chris -Original Message- From: Rick Genter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:37 AM To: Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC); info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Question re: deleted

Re: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-20 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand WHY now. Since val-tags is just a cache, where is the real tags repository. The individual RCS files in the repository. -Larry Jones I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track. -- Calvin

RE: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-19 Thread Christopher.Fouts
-Original Message- From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:25 PM To: Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC); info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Question re: deleted tags Christopher Fouts wrote: What am I missing? CVSROOT/val-tags Tags never get removed from

RE: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-19 Thread Christopher.Fouts
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC) Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 8:46 AM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Question re: deleted tags -Original Message- From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

CVS tag question

2005-01-19 Thread Butler, Melissa
All, I have a question concerning cvs update and tags. If another developer tags a set of files, but not the whole baseline, is there a way that I can get just the tagged files into my sandbox, but leave everything else in my sandbox alone? I know the correct behavior of cvs update -r

Re: CVS tag question

2005-01-19 Thread Todd Denniston
Butler, Melissa wrote: All, I have a question concerning cvs update and tags. If another developer tags a set of files, but not the whole baseline, is there a way that I can get just the tagged files into my sandbox, but leave everything else in my sandbox alone? I know

RE: CVS tag question

2005-01-19 Thread Christopher.Fouts
cvs co -r tagname -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Butler, Melissa Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:48 AM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: CVS tag question All, I have a question concerning cvs update and tags. If another

Re: CVS tag question

2005-01-19 Thread Larry Jones
Butler, Melissa writes [in one very long line]: I have a question concerning cvs update and tags. If another developer tags a set of files, but not the whole baseline, is there a way that I can get just the tagged files into my sandbox, but leave everything else in my sandbox alone? I

Re: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-19 Thread Larry Jones
Derek Price writes: Since tag deletion is considered a relatively rare operation (as well it should be), no one has ever bother to write the code for the expensive, complete tag search that would be necessary to determine if the tag is really completely gone and should really be deleted

Re: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-19 Thread Derek Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek Price writes: Since tag deletion is considered a relatively rare operation (as well it should be), no one has ever bother to write the code for the expensive, complete tag search that would be necessary to determine if the tag is really completely gone and should

Re: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-19 Thread Larry Jones
Derek Price writes: Well, fixing it this way would put us back in the position where checkouts and updates could sometimes report that tags don't exist when they do. I think this is worse than not checking out any data when the tag doesn't exist in the project or sub-project being

Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-18 Thread Christopher.Fouts
Ok, I deleted a CVS tag using cvs rtag -d tagname proj Now, when I do a check out with the tag, I get cvs co -r tagname proj cvs checkout: Updating proj/file1 cvs checkout: Updating proj/file2 cvs checkout: Updating proj/file3 .. I

RE: Question re: deleted tags

2005-01-18 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Christopher Fouts wrote: What am I missing? CVSROOT/val-tags Tags never get removed from val-tags. The no such tag message will appear only if the tag does not appear in val-tags. If the tag appears in val-tags, then CVS has to search each file in each directory to determine which files may or

newbie module question

2004-12-07 Thread Duncan Krebs
Hi, I'm been using CVS informally in eclipse for about a year and I'm trying to figure it out a little more. Stupid question, but from reading the cvs manual all it really said about modules is that you can use them to group related files. Up to now I've just been committing my projects

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-20 Thread Paul Sander
On Nov 19, 2004, at 10:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: This is why I hate the -n option of the checkout/commit/tag/update commands and advocate its removal from CVS. What in the world are you talking about??? -n prevents changes

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-19 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: We've already discussed how to add such a capability in such a way that it involves zero overhead for those who don't want it: Register no triggers and defer their enforcement until commit time. But for shops that NEED them,

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-19 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: There is a certain logic to having triggers gate changes to the repository. There's also a certain logic to having a tool prevent conditions that will later cause it to fail. Uncommitable changes are such a condition, and it

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-19 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Derek Robert Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark D. Baushke wrote: Hi Greg, Is it reasonable to suggest that a addinfo trigger could be run as a part of the 'cvs commit' command

Merge question?

2004-11-19 Thread Tawfik, Sameh E
My CVS client is on Widows XP Professional version 2002 with SP1. I need to merge a branch to the trunk, and since we have binary files in both places, I thought of performing the following steps to avoid merging the binary files: 1. From the trunk sand box, run the following

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-19 Thread Paul Sander
in question, which means that this cannot be done against an anonymous repository, or indeed any where the user has no write privs, without hacking the CVS/Entries file to add files by hand.) Okay, I'm convinced. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-19 Thread Paul Sander
On Nov 19, 2004, at 6:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: There is a certain logic to having triggers gate changes to the repository. There's also a certain logic to having a tool prevent conditions that will later cause it to fail.

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-19 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: This is why I hate the -n option of the checkout/commit/tag/update commands and advocate its removal from CVS. What in the world are you talking about??? -n prevents changes from being made anywhere! On the server or in

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Sander wrote: It's true that add and commit hooks can enforce the same kinds of policies as post-conditions of the commit. However, add hooks can enforce things like naming

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Sander
On Nov 18, 2004, at 7:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I still disagree, because some people like working from their laptop and wireless network connections are hardly ubiquitous yet. Work that a developer can do from their laptop off of the network can also

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 09:19:18 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes) It depends on the nature and extent of the changes. I can easily imagine scenarios in which lost

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