[Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Ayers
Hello, I've got a CVS repository (cvs 1.11) for a project that was originally being built by makefiles under Cygwin, but has since been moved to a Windows IDE for development. All is generally well, with one problem. I still check the files in and out from Cygwin, but the text

[Fwd: Backrevving a file]

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Ayers
I have a file which is, say, rev 1.11. I would like to load the rev 1.10 version of the file and start working from there. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Ayers
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:52:43PM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: I still check the files in and out from Cygwin, but the text files now have DOS line ends instead of Unix. Try using WinCVS or another of the GUI CVS clients, or even a native command-line

Re: [Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Ayers
Noel Yap wrote: First, some questions: 1. Why do you have version control comments within the files? I didn't set up the repository, I inherited it. I could probably remove the log, but some folk feel pretty strongly about keeping them in there. It's a bit of a moot point in

Re: [Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Ayers
Eric Siegerman wrote: My wording was imprecise. I meant get CVS to start taking them out, as it's @#(! well supposed to do. There's no way to tell CVS to do this; it's supposed to just happen. Hmmm - if it's supposed to just happen, then that may explain it. Specifically, I am

Re: [Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]

2002-06-14 Thread Mike Ayers
Peter Ring wrote: Which Windows IDE is it? TI's Code Composer. It's an MSVC clone for DSP development. Emacsen (gnu or X, any platform) are pretty agnostic (ie: accommodating) wrt. line-ends. A shame some people never get to like emacs; there's also this very nice VC mode

[Fwd: Re: [OT] RE: [Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]]

2002-06-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Tim Bingham wrote: I do my major editing with Emacs, or else I wouldn't be having this problem. TICC canonicalizes line ends, while Emacs doesn't and can't be forced to (according to my reading of the docs, YMMV). OT: - emacs does the right thing! - Back OT:

Re: How to find out the CVSROOT and location in the repository of a working directory

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Ayers
Reinstein, Shlomo wrote: Thanks for the detailed reply! Before this sample script, I actually thought that your idea was bad because every type of shell or operating system has its own way of redirecting the standard error -- but you proved me wrong (or is it Perl that always launches the

WinCVS home directory

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Ayers
WinCVS keeps popping up messageboxes asking me to indicate my home directory. This being Windows, I have no home directory. Does anyone know what WinCVS really wants to know? Thanks, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Where can I find WinCVS?

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Ayers
Xicheng Jia wrote: Could you please tell me where I can find WinCVS. Thanks a lot. :-) Start at www.cvsgui.org and find the downloads. There's also lots of good documentation there. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Conflict upon add

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Ayers
Using WinCVS, I added a PDF file to my archive (PDFs illustrate the problem of text file canonicalization - I don't know whether they're text or binary, but must check them in as one or the other). Once added, it displayed as a conflict file. It is my understanding that one needs

WinCVS tree commit

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Ayers
Using WinCVS, I would like to commit all the commitable files in the tree. If I select the top directory and run commit from there, it doesn't seem to work, although it does appear to be recursing and doing something (what?). Suggestions? TiA, /|/|ike

Tag names

2002-06-29 Thread Mike Ayers
CVS has the (to me, odd) restriction on tags that they may not contain the characters `$,.:;@' . This is puzzling in light of the fact that the most common way, both historically and currently, to tag releases is in x.y.z form. I suspect that there is a standard substitution for

CVS friendly bug tracker

2002-06-29 Thread Mike Ayers
This probably comes up on a regular basis, but I'm looking for a bug tracker that's CVS friendly - bug numbers matched to checkins, etc. If there's canned information on this, please just point the way. I tried to check cvshome, but it's down at the moment (or the network between

What tags are in my archive?

2002-07-02 Thread Mike Ayers
How can I get a list of the tags that have been applied to files in my archive? Thanks, /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Date of tagging

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Ayers
Is it possible to find out upon which date a tag was placed? The information does not seem to be stored. Barring that, I believe that I could do something like the following (pseudocode); TaggedAfter = BeginningOfTime TaggedBefore = EndOfTime for each File of

Empty attic?

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Ayers
When attempting to change a tag name: cvs rtag -r old-name-0-4 rel-0-4 tc I get an error: cvs [rtag aborted]: cannot open directory E:\CVSROOT\cameras\cam1\doc\vendor\Maxim/Attic Upon checking, I find that the directory exists, is not read-only, and has no files in

Re: Empty attic?

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: cvs [rtag aborted]: cannot open directory E:\CVSROOT\cameras\cam1\doc\vendor\Maxim/Attic Upon checking, I find that the directory exists, is not read-only, and has no files in it (this is correct, as I have not removed any files from

Undoing cvs remove

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Ayers
I inadvertently performed a `cvs remove` on a file in WinCVS (I wanted to delete the file, then update it to get rid of changes I had made and get the archived revision back). How do I undo this (i.e. not commit the remove and get the file back)? Thanks, /|/|ike

Re: Undoing cvs remove

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Ayers
, was not possible at the moment. /|/|ike Mike Ayers wrote: I inadvertently performed a `cvs remove` on a file in WinCVS (I wanted to delete the file, then update it to get rid of changes I had made and get the archived revision back). How do I undo this (i.e. not commit the remove and get

Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: When you check out a directory, CVS remembers the CVSROOT and uses it for all subsequent operations in that directory. (This makes life much simpler for those of us who use multiple repositories.) What you need to do is to edit that saved CVSROOT (in CVS/Root) to

Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-15 Thread Mike Ayers
it only applies to pserver access, where you login to the cvs server to get access. -Chris Mike Ayers wrote Larry Jones wrote: When you check out a directory, CVS remembers the CVSROOT and uses it for all subsequent operations in that directory. (This makes life much simpler for those

Re: CVS NT over extranet

2002-07-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Sumit Ranjan wrote: i am trying to connect to the CVS repository in India from Germany...over the extranet. has anyone done so or has any idea about this ? If you are referring to Nortel Networks' Extranet, then you should have no problem - use the FQDN of your CVS server and all

Re: Accessing the repository via Internet

2002-07-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Helmut Mucker wrote: Is there a way to access our corporate repository from the Internet? Our security policy prohibits direct connections from the Internet to the CVS-Server. ACK! Haven't they heard of ssh? Can it be done using a ssh-proxy in the DMZ or something else?

Re: Accessing the repository via Internet

2002-07-16 Thread Mike Ayers
This has gone rather OT, but... Kaz Kylheku wrote: I'm sure they have; however, using ssh requires opening up a port from the DMZ to their internal network. In the minds of the super-paranoid, this introduces the risk of someone exploiting a security hole in ssh.

Re: file type exported (unix/pc)

2002-07-18 Thread Mike Ayers
pootle monster wrote: When I update my files I find that the files that get to me are in PC format not unix I know its a minor problem, but its still bugging me I dont know whether this is an artefact of CVS or tortoise Is there an option so that I can choose Unix files? It

Re: user unknown to this system in Windows2000 when I commit

2002-07-22 Thread Mike Ayers
Rob Helmer wrote: If you must run on Windows 2000, try CygWin : http://www.cygwin.com It comes with cvs and a bunch of other Unix tools compiled for Windows. Note that using Cygwin for Windows CVS can cause great headaches unless you pay constant attention to line terminators.

Funky error when running log

2002-07-22 Thread Mike Ayers
When running `cvs log` on the file Image55.jpg, I get the following output: cvs log Image55.jpg (in directory C:\dssi\cameras\cam1\tools\doc\WinCVS\) cvs log: warning: duplicate key `þ|-Á¿Ã¯ÃŠÃ¿' in RCS file `E:\CVSROOT/cameras/cam1/tools/doc/WinCVS/Image55.jpg,v' cvs log: warning:

Repository troubles - expert help needed

2002-07-23 Thread Mike Ayers
I am having serious problems, and need help. I suspect that my repository is corrupted. I would like to know what to do to fix it. As part of the project documentation, I checked in the WinCVS user's guide. This is 1 html file, wincvs11.htm, and about 60 images named

Re: Is there a mean to set up cvs to check-out methods?

2002-07-29 Thread Mike Ayers
Cristian Romanescu wrote: I have a request from my boss, to find a mean to check-out from the repository not files, but at method level. Is there a way to set-up cvs to do that? Ummm - does your boss realize that this is an unsound request? Allow me to elaborate. The file is the

Repairing repository

2002-07-29 Thread Mike Ayers
The device upon which my repository was stored has failed. I have last week's backup, but I had done some checkins since then. Fortunately, I have an up to date tree. I have copied the backup in to create a new repository. Now I must identify the files in the current working tree

Re: Repairing repository

2002-07-29 Thread Mike Ayers
Matt Riechers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have copied the backup in to create a new repository. Now I must identify the files in the current working tree which are newer than (different from) the files in the repository, and get them comitted. Any suggestions for the easy way to do

[Fwd: Re: Repairing repository]

2002-07-29 Thread Mike Ayers
Matt Riechers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will update then mark all files which are different from the repository as commitable, so I can just commit them and be back where I was? If so, my day just got considerably brighter... Essentially, yes. It will be as if you had

Re: ftp location for CVS mailing list archives

2002-07-30 Thread Mike Ayers
Yep! L(.)(.)k here--+ | Johnson, Susan wrote:| Is there an ftp location where I could download the| CVS mailing list archives? |

Re: Repairing repository

2002-07-30 Thread Mike Ayers
Okay, here's how I restored my repository from a recent archive of the repository itself and a good working tree (sandbox). Thanks to all who responded - I couldn't have done it without you. First, all work is done on copies of the archive and the sandbox. Whenever I made a

How I repaired my repository

2002-07-30 Thread Mike Ayers
[Note: this is an update. There were two steps I forgot] Okay, here's how I restored my repository from a recent archive of the repository itself and a good working tree (sandbox). Thanks to all who responded - I couldn't have done it without you. First, all work is

Re: Trying to download sourcecode

2002-07-31 Thread Mike Ayers
Naughty, naughty! Please don't send HTML or rich text email to newsgroups or mailing lists. Steele, Lynne wrote: I am trying to download cvs source from ccvs.home.org to use for a You mean ccvs.cvshome.org, I hope? project and the download seems to be just pushing me

Re: (no subject)

2002-07-31 Thread Mike Ayers
Josh wrote: As I am running the CVS server (v1.11.2 pserver) on a (linux) machine with two network adapters I would very much like to know if it is possible to bind the server to a specific network interface? Douglas Finkle wrote: Check out http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ipfilter/. You

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-01 Thread Mike Ayers
H Albin Takami wrote: 4. Checked in/committed a bunch of files with cvs ci *.v What are *.v files? (Just curious) 5. I setup the .cshrc file for another user, Peggy. 5.5 When did Peggy do `cvs checkout project/module`? This is when the CVS directories

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-02 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: 5.5 Peggy never checked out any files/module because the files she is trying to check-in/commit are new files (first time check-in). *BZZZT* Sorry... This is the problem. Once a project is created, in order to work in the project, one must

Re: sync repositories

2002-08-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Zieg, Mark wrote: I have to sync two CVS repositories located on two non- connected networks. (yep, this means tape/CDROM transports, I know it sounds silly). I was wondering if there is a better way than creating incremental tar files on both sides and applying them on the other side.

Re: (OT) Mailing List Commands

2002-08-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Mark Cooper wrote: Does anyone know where the list of recognisable embedded commands for this mailing list can be found? Well, the web admin page, as listed below, at http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs, contains the options. There aren't many, though. The web page

Re: sync repositories

2002-08-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Zieg, Mark wrote: I have to sync two CVS repositories located on two non- connected networks. If you MUST do this (and it is almost certain that you do not need to, but that's another story) I assume that you've never had to develop under DOD-enforced contract requirements, or you

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-13 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Albin Takami wrote: To clarify, the repository location is the directory that you set the CVSROOT variable to, right? Yes, but you should not need to set CVSROOT - in fact

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: Yes, I have tried this and it's works. Would replacement of checkout with co result in the exact same thing? `cvs checkout` and `cvs co` are the same command, so yes. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: So if you are using CVS properly, the CVSROOT env var never comes into play. I think you're overstating the case. Most people just use a single repository and even people who use multiple repositories usually have one repository

Re: Getting diffs between two revisions

2002-08-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Derek Robert Price wrote: Johnny John wrote: Hello: Should I not be able to update my working copy of a file by doing something as follows? cvs update -j HEAD:2002-07-17 12:00 -j HEAD:2002-07-19 12:00 to get changes between July 17 and July 19 placed into my local working copy?

Re: CVS server process still running long after command is executed

2002-09-03 Thread Mike Ayers
Jeeva Sarma wrote: Hi all I have received no replys for this question whish I posted 2 days ago. The primary reason for that would be that you gave no information from which an answer could be derived. First, check if your server is set up so that it logs all its output - if

Re: Ignoring everything *but* a list of flies

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Nuno Nunes wrote: I was wondering what is the best way to do something that I cannot find documentation for (maybe I haven't looked deep enough?). I want to have cvs keep track of some files in a directory where I will have a lot of other files appear. The problem is that of course I only

Re: CVS WINDOWS

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Ayers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry I'm using WinCVS. I checked the option check for an alternate rsh name = c:\cvs\ssh2.exe I tried: c:\cvs\ssh2 myname@mayserver and it works If you're using WinCVS, then setting CVSROOT does nothing, unless you've set it inside WinCVS. WinCVS

Re: no space on device - import

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: If you can move it without changing its full path and without using symbolic links, the move will be completely transparent. If you keep the path the same by using symbolic links, most things will work fine but eventually you'll probably run into problems with things

Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Ayers
Frederic Brehm wrote: For performance reasons (I/O throughput during compiles and network traffic) you might want to put it on a local disk. Policy makers don't always understand performance issues, though. It also helps to point out that there should be no need to backup the

Re: pserver problem, still

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Ayers
James P. Schmidt wrote: cvs -d :pserver:zaren@(host):/usr/local/cvsrepos login CVS password: cvs login: authorization failed: server (host) rejected access to /usr/local/cvsrepos for user zaren $ ls -ld /usr/local/cvsrepos It should be at least 755. If it is, then check

Pandora's Black Box (was: Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS)

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Ayers
Eric Siegerman wrote: I'd rephrase there should be no need to depending on your process, you might be able to get away without it. I wouldn't. But I will concede that most of the industry has accepted standards of work in software that could be vastly improved upon, and my should

Re: Hung CVS server processes

2002-09-20 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: So we're back to the unfriendly option -- it seems that Solaris accepts the KEEPALIVE option but doesn't actually do KEEPALIVE processing. Like I said, I suggest finding some Solaris experts and asking if there's a way to enable it. This actually isn't all

Re: Backup single module

2002-09-23 Thread Mike Ayers
Mahantesh wrote: Hi, I want to backup single module in cvs(not whole repository) and restore whenever I want with version information. I am morally obligated to inform you that this is probably not a good idea, and may not do what you want. Can you please brief me about how to

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Unfortunately, there's no easy way to fix your corrupted files; you'll either have to live with them, try to recreate them, or become intimately familiar with the RCS file format and try to repair them by hand. DUDE! Backups... I have had

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Todd Denniston writes: Not that I WANT to work in the windows environment, but if CVS/RCS as a repository is unstable in a local mode there, I would like to know if it is something CVS is doing or could protect against (besides refusing to work there :). If the data

Re: Adding Files To A Release Branch

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Ayers
Chuck Tomasi wrote: I'm still fairly new to CVS (less than two months). I'm using CVS 1.11.2 on a Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 system. I have a main trunk for development and currently one release branch to maintain the production system. Over the course of time the main trunk has had some files

Re: Including file version during checkout

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Ayers
Frederic Brehm wrote: I don't remember many unhappy comments about $Rev$ or its cousins $Id$ and $Name$. There are many reasons to avoid $Log$, though. Ever archive a Perl script that used variables with the (not exactly unusual) variable names $Rev, $Name, or $Log? I'd like to

Re: checkout multiple tags

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Ayers
Eric Fritz wrote: The problem is what if I want to checkout the last 3 updates. If I try to use: cvs checkout -r tag1 -r tag2 -r tag3 module it only gets the files in tag3. If I try to run them seperately, one on top of the other, subsequent checkouts actually remove the files that are

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,

per-directory checkout files as?

2002-09-30 Thread Mike Ayers
Here's what my project structure looks like: DeathRay | +--- include | +--- source | | | +--- drivers | | | +--- applications | +--- projects

Re: Hung CVS server processes

2002-10-01 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: That sounds like someone started a commit, the editor came up for the log message, and the person forgot about it until the next day when they finally saved the log message and let the commit complete. So... can the editor zombie or die in some other fashion

Re: New to CVS

2002-10-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Rob Beach wrote: As the subject says i'm new to CVS and from what I have read about it, it sounds really good. BUT I was wondering if it can handle excel .xls files ? and word .doc files the same way it can handle .txt files ? as I am Not exactly the same, but the same. When

Re: symbols in patterns interpreted *recursively*?

2002-10-07 Thread Mike Ayers
RLMuller wrote: Hi All, Hello! Using a pattern I encountered behavior I didn't expect, as follows: my $ABC = abc; $_ = $ABC; print \$ABC . (/^$ABC$/? matches : does not match) . \$ABC\\n;# Matches my $ABC_DEF = abc\\def; $_ = $ABC_DEF; print \$ABC_DEF .

Re: multiple servers

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Ayers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to maintain my cvs repository in multiple servers and then the client to pick a ramdom server and get the update from there. CVS was not designed for this. If you wish to do this, you will need to figure out the repository synchronization isues. You

Re: Installing WinCVS 1.2 as a stand-alone

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Ayers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Similar question here: Is there a Win98/2000 light cvs server? Light server? There's a full-featured one that you can get at http://www.cvsnt.org that will run on Windows 2K. It is implemented as an NT service. I am not a Windows expert, but that

Re: Installing WinCVS 1.2 as a stand-alone

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Ayers
Stan Berka wrote: Thanks a lot, Mike! That was exactly what I needed. CVS gives me a reliable versioning and backup this way. And yes, it's a single person development at home for our parish. Good. Now just remember to do regular backups and store them offsite, and you're

Re: Tag locking change

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Ayers
Greg A. Woods wrote: If you really Really REALLY want to tag the head of a branch then just check out the branch (or do a cvs update in any existing working directory which has no un-committed changes) then then apply the tag to what you get as a result by running cvs tag in that working

Re: cvs commit features

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Reinstein, Shlomo wrote: Of course, a user can always use cvs add and cvs remove to add or remove files, but these two options can help him/her make sure they didn't forget to do this for some of the files. This is one of those things that might work really well, but only for

Re: Tag locking change

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Adam Bregenzer wrote: Not at all. The server that holds the cvs repository also has apache runing on it. When a commit occurs each file that is committed is copied into a seperate directory. That directory is the DocumentRoot for apache. That way, when a change is committed it is

Re: CVS server debugging

2002-10-19 Thread Mike Ayers
Dan Peterson wrote: Is there a way to start the CVS server (pserver) so it can be run through gdb? From inetd? I should hope not. This would (I believe) imply a rather serious security gap in inetd. I want to be able to debug the server process from the very beginning, but the best I can

Re: How do I tag only on branched module

2002-10-22 Thread Mike Ayers
I'm going to take my best shot at this, although I'm not entirely certain what the situation is. I believe your problems stem largely from your use of `cvs rtag` instead of `cvs tag`. As I understand it, you have a trunk and two branches, and are making changes, sometimes to more than one

Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Ayers
Nick Patavalis wrote: What's wrong with uid/gid based permissions? For starters, they require that each CVS user have a login account on the machine in question. In some cases, this is not acceptable. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Visual Studio .NET projects and CVS

2002-10-28 Thread Mike Ayers
Kaz Kylheku wrote: Knowing what files are primary objects that should be version controlled is a Visual .NET problem, not a CVS problem. It's your responsibility to understand the development tool you are using, and know what all the .dsw, .opt, .ncb, .aps and whatever files mean. So that

CVSIGNORE on WinCVS

2002-10-30 Thread Mike Ayers
I am using WinCVS. Setting the CVSIGNORE environment variable, either for user or system, does not seem to work. Does anyone know what will work. I would prefer to avoid changing CVSROOT/.cvsignore if possible, as that tends to change things for everyone on all projects. TiA, /|/|ike

Re: pserver login problem to Linux from Win2k

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Ayers
Kaz Kylheku wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Steve deRosier wrote: Here's what is happening: 1. J: is a networked drive connected to my home directory on our Linux server via Samba You can't do that, because Linux and Windows don't agree on the representation of text files. This affects the

Re: Nubie question

2002-11-02 Thread Mike Ayers
Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hello all! Can anyone explain me how to get latest STABLE release of some package from CVS? Manual says that i have to use tags. But all examples in it contain tag's name, such as cvs update -r Release-02 But what if i dont know this name? Can I find it somehow? Is there

Re: can't add with wincvs

2002-11-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Steve Buehler wrote: I am not sure if this got through to the list or not since I didn't see it come back to me. So I am sending it again in the hopes that someone can help me. ---original message I am hoping that someone might be able to help me. My customer can't do without

Re: Newbie Problem: About repositiory

2002-11-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Noel Yap wrote: There're several things (with varying pro's and con's) you can do: 1. move back the repo until you've checked in everything you need (and don't checkout another working directory until it's moved back) 2. create a symlink (or mount the new repo) to the location of the old repo 3.

Re: CVS, emacs, shh, cygwin

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Seth Copen Goldstein wrote: I am having trouble using cvs, emacs, bash, etc. on my windows XP machine. My configuration is: CVS: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server) Emacs: GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)\n of 2002-03-19 on buffy Cygwin: not sure version, cygwin1.dll is

Re: can't add with wincvs

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Steve Buehler wrote: Ok. I was able to get a private key setup and running so that it logs me in. Now I am running into another problem. I can connect to the server. In fact, in WinCVS, I can even do a create which gives me the following reply in WinCVS: cvs init *CVS exited normally

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

Re: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 11:17:10 (-0800), Shankar Unni wrote: ] Subject: RE: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts Greg opines: Then you have no accountability in your CVS repository. None. You have as much accountability as you have from ssh and the passwd file:

Re: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Mahantesh writes: we have working repository running right now. Currently the mode of authentication is .rhosts. We are planning to migrate the mode of authentication to pserver. Why? :ext: is generally consider superior to :pserver:, particularly when used with ssh rather

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: WinCVS problem - sandbox files not shown

2002-11-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Stefan Andersson wrote: (I've tried all combinations of the Show buttons, but the only thing that differs is if non-cvs files is shown or not...) Incorrect. There are a number of Show buttons colored red. Those buttons will hide all files *except* those shown. Please check those and make

Re: An automatically commit

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Ayers
Giohanna MEndez wrote: /---Version 11 /---version 1-/ / \ /\Version 12 version base /---version 2 \---version 3 - Version 31 Each version has: version base

Re: Display all assets by TagName...

2002-11-20 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: DePaul, James writes: Is there a way in WinCvS to list all of the assets tied to a specific tag!? This is regular (command line) CVS -- WinCVS has it's own mailing list (see www.wincvs.org). But I strongly suspect the answer is no. You are correct in your suspicion.

Re: Changing CVSROOT in CVS/Root of working directory

2002-11-25 Thread Mike Ayers
mmala wrote: Hi I am facing a problem. Actually, right now our DNS is down so for running client server cvs,I am adding IP address of the clients as entries in the /etc/hosts file of the machine where cvs server is running.But we all have previously checked out working directories;the old CVSROOT

Re: cvs does not add hierachy files

2002-11-25 Thread Mike Ayers
Charles Sun wrote: I am a newbie. I added many files and directories in the original check out. Is there a simple way to add all of them? ??cvs add?? does not add hierarchy files and directories. ??cvs import?? will create unnecessary tags on other cvs files. I wish ??cvs add?? has a

Re: Changing CVSROOT in CVS/Root of working directory

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Ayers
Riechers, Matthew W wrote: Alternatively, you could add the IP address of the server to the client host file(s). In Windows 98, I believe the file is c:\windows\hosts. In Windows NT systems and derivatives, the file is usually %SYSTEMROOT%\etc\hosts. CAVEAT: Doing this now may cause much

Re: AW: using .cvsrc in client-server setup

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Fabian Cenedese wrote: Windows 98 does not allow me to name/create a file as .cvsrc I tried naming a file just cvsrc and setting HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.It doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how they accomplished setting global options on windows 98?Any other suggestions? I really really need cvs

Re: Problem with WinCVS

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Please send only plain text messages to technical mailing lists. Thanks. David Gagnon wrote: Hello, I am a new to CVS and I need some help: We have a CVS server on a Mac OSX computer and it's work well with MacCVS Pro client on a remote Macintosh. All the things seem to be ok for the

Re: Commit Problem

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Please send only plain text messages to technical mailing lists. Thanks. Bill Smith wrote: Below is a message I posted to the tortoise cvs mailing list. Additionally, I tried doing a cvs commit with cygwin cvs, I get /CVSROOTccess /var/cvs No such file or directory This is not a

Re: Commit Problem

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Bill Smith wrote: - Original Message - From: Mike Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, yes it is a cut-and-paste, here it is again including the command line Here s the entire trace with the -t option $ cvs -t commit cvs commit: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: update -l -r brnch dir doesn't seem to do anything

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Ayers
CHARLES HART, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK wrote: I've used CVS for a bit over 24 hours, having used ClearCase for the past 16 years, and I am trying to get a handle on how NOT to get a whole directory dumped into my work area. We have a directory with approximately 1,500 source files in it. (No

Re: Binary update and merge problem

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Walter Ghijsen wrote: Hi, I'm running into problems with merging binary files from one branch into another. SNIP/ Does anyone have any suggestions? Yes. Don't merge binary files. CVS knows how to merge only text files. Binary files you must handle on your own. What you probably

Re: Bug tracking.

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Steven Buroff wrote: I would like to vote for this feature too. This open source. Only patches count as votes. CVS's support for bug tracking is poor to nonexistent and many people have commented on it and requested better support. Tags don't really do it. That's because CVS is not a bug

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