RE : TAG and file removing

2003-01-31 Thread Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD
Ok, the file is now outside tag. It has been deleted from client side. File can be found in Attic folder on server side. My question 1 is : how should I reassign tag to this file ? Is it OK to checkout the file only with a date, then tag it with exactly the same tag name as before ? Question 2

set up cvs under cygwin with ssh

2003-01-31 Thread Lu Fang
Hi, can anyone tell me how to set up cvs under cygwin with SSH? and how to do the configurations and testing after set up it. I want some details instructions. Thanks a lot! lu fang _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get

Re: RE : TAG and file removing

2003-01-31 Thread Larry Jones
Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD writes: My question 1 is : how should I reassign tag to this file ? Is it OK to checkout the file only with a date, then tag it with exactly the same tag name as before ? Yes. Question 2 : as, in my opinion, the are no reason to remove a file from a tag, since the

Re: RE : TAG and file removing

2003-01-31 Thread david
My question 1 is : how should I reassign tag to this file ? Is it OK to checkout the file only with a date, then tag it with exactly the same tag name as before ? That works. You can also use cvs rtag, but I usually prefer to check the file out and look at it to try to make sure it's the

Re: Help Required

2003-01-31 Thread Larry Jones
Amit Sharma writes: We are able to checkout the files with its permissions preserved with MACCVSX version (octopus iconed version of MacCVS) apart it fails to get file names with special character(Error: invalid argument,Internal error: cvs_hqx.cpp, 635: Unknown error: 4294967248).

Re: server rejected access to repository for user

2003-01-31 Thread Larry Jones
Monica Li writes: We installed CVS in Linux and WinCvs120 in Window. I login as different end users to checkout or commit files. First I login as user1, then I login as user2, don't remember I logout user1 and user2 or not. I login as user1 again, wincvs still think I'm user2. Is anybody

Removing a branch

2003-01-31 Thread Ludvig Borgne
A simple question - is it possible to remove a branch? I have tried: cvs rtag -d branch_name module_name cvs rtag -b -d branch_name module_name But the branch is not removed. For each file I get the message: cvs rtag: Not removing branch tag `branch_name' from

Selective updating with tags

2003-01-31 Thread Richard Blair
Two questions: 1) We're using non-branch tags to mark a golden release of our database. This release is not the tip, but is what users checkout and and edit, until they are ready to commit changes and then the golden tag will be moved on those files that were commited. My question is this: Once

StarTeam to CVS conversion

2003-01-31 Thread Jerry Brown
Hello- Is there a StarTeam to CVS conversion utility out there along the lines of the excellent vss2cvs utility from Laine Stump and others? I have not been able to find anything despite some extensive searching, wondering if anyone else has seen anything like this. Thanks in advance. Jerry

Re: Removing a branch

2003-01-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:43:34PM +0100, Ludvig Borgne wrote: A simple question - is it possible to remove a branch? I have tried: cvs rtag -b -d branch_name module_name The -b should be -B. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed

Re: Branch aliasing

2003-01-31 Thread Kaz Kylheku
Simon Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, Please could I ask for any advice on the following. [ Snip: description of scheme whereby branches are partially aliased: in one subtree of the project, branch tags A and B are independent branches. In another

Re: cvs admin -l

2003-01-31 Thread Larry Jones
Mohamed Metwaly writes: I am trying to do reserved checkouts, I tried cvs admin -l file_name, although this is not exactly what I want, I found out that another user can UNlock a file that was not locked by him. That is: user1: cvs admin -l file1 OK user2: cvs admin -u file1 OK Is

Re: RE : TAG and file removing

2003-01-31 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you could do is implement the taginfo file. I suspect that removing a tag by the back door method of commiting the removal of a file with a sticky tag doesn't consult the taginfo file, although I haven't verified that. If so, that's another good reason for

RE: StarTeam to CVS conversion

2003-01-31 Thread Ruprecht Helms
Hi Jerry Brown, Hello- Is there a StarTeam to CVS conversion utility out there ... What I know StarTeam itselves is developed to do work like a CVS-System. For what do you need such a conversion-utility? Regards, Ruprecht -- Ruprecht Helms IT-Service

cvs setup...

2003-01-31 Thread Bruce Douglas
hi... I have a CVS repository on a machine within my network I cna more or less connect with it while I'm logged in by #cvs co CVSROOT/config. I have it setup to use SSH. Within the /etc/profile, I have: CVSROOT=:etc:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/CVS My question. If I want to test this to

cvs setup...

2003-01-31 Thread Bruce Douglas
hi... I have a CVS repository on a machine within my network I cna more or less connect with it while I'm logged in by #cvs co CVSROOT/config. I have it setup to use SSH. Within the /etc/profile, I have: CVSROOT=:etc:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/CVS My question. If I want to test this to

notify

2003-01-31 Thread Monica Li
Hi, I couldn't change the file notify. Notify is under repository/CVSROOT directory. it also has .v. it means I need checkout before make any changes. right? But it's not under any module. How can I checkout this file, change the file, get rid of the # and make it work? Thanks! Monica

RE: notify

2003-01-31 Thread Teala Spitzbarth
You need to create a workspace where you check out CVSROOT, there you can edit the administration file and check it back in. mkdir work; cd work cvs co CVSROOT When you check it in, cvs will rebuild it's administration database to activate you change on the server. Teala -Original

Re: notify

2003-01-31 Thread Jenn Vesperman
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 11:04, Monica Li wrote: Hi, I couldn't change the file notify. Notify is under repository/CVSROOT directory. it also has .v. it means I need checkout before make any changes. right? But it's not under any module. How can I checkout this file, change the file, get rid