Re: I am new to CVS..
Sudheer, I just recently started and got my CVS system to work, just started testing it... I'd suggest starting at CVSNT.org to set up a server, and then either just download the binaries at CVSHome.org or checking out WinCVS.org... Anyway... good luck. -Kris --- Sudheer Babu, Nukaraju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am new to CVS. I had experience in Clearcase. i want to install and test on Windows platform first. Can any body give some suggestions how to start CVS (from installation,configurstion etc..) Is Server and Client s/w is separate?? Please give me some sugestions Thanks Sudheer ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs _ Free email at www.Z6.com ( and home of worldmap.com) _ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED], No Ads, 6MB, IMAP, POP, SMTP more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
I am new to CVS..
Hi I am new to CVS. I had experience in Clearcase. i want to install and test on Windows platform first. Can any body give some suggestions how to start CVS (from installation,configurstion etc..) Is Server and Client s/w is separate?? Please give me some sugestions Thanks Sudheer ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: New to CVS
rainman writes: 1. Re. CVS, where does a total newbie start ? URL, groups (for totally new users) other info would be much appreciated The place to start is http://www.cvshome.org/. 2. should one be a programmer to understand CVS ? Not necessarily. 3. Is there a way to subscribe to this list using the NO MAIL option (i.e.) I wish to be a member and post to the group, but read from the Web. This way I DO NOT receive all group mail into my inbox but read only relevant threads Absolutely! See http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs. Once you've subscribed, you can set your subscription options, including turning mail off completely. -Larry Jones OK, there IS a middle ground, but it's for sissy weasels. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: New to CVS
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 looking for something that can do what cvs can do but i have spreadsheets that about two or three people will need to edit and update at a time. At the min they have to wait for each other to get out of the file. No. It can store them, but it can't automatically merge changes the way it can with text files. (Unless you already have tools that can merge changes and apply the patches that have been posted here to allow CVS to use external merge tools.) (This is a quasi-commerical plug, but hopefully it won't get me kicked off the list.) plug I myself use CVS to control the Word docs associated with my project code, but the process confuses some project members who find the process a little alien to their typical Microsoft metaphor. For situations that are primarily dealing with Office files, you might try this, which feels more natural to many non-programmers: http://www.documentlocator.com /plug ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: New to CVS
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 you add those files, you must be sure to tell CVS that they are binary files (-kb option from command line, add binary button on WinCVS), after that, everything is the same (except that when you diff binary files, since CVS has no way to interpret differences, it can only tell you same or different). looking for something that can do what cvs can do but i have spreadsheets that about two or three people will need to edit and update at a time. At the min they have to wait for each other to get out of the file. You seem to be headed down the right path. also there are people that need to just look at the spreadsheets to get data off them can you set it up so people can view the files but not edit them ? is there that sort of security on cvs ? It can be done, but is dependent on the specifics of your server implementation. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: New to CVS
--- Rob Beach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also there are people that need to just look at the spreadsheets to get data off them can you set it up so people can view the files but not edit them ? is there that sort of security on cvs ? CVS uses the server's file system permissioning. I believe the manual talks about this. Noel __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
New to CVS
Hi all, 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 looking for something that can do what cvs can do but i have spreadsheets that about two or three people will need to edit and update at a time. At the min they have to wait for each other to get out of the file. also there are people that need to just look at the spreadsheets to get data off them can you set it up so people can view the files but not edit them ? is there that sort of security on cvs ? Hope that makes sense and sorry for sounding so thick Cheers, Rob. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: new to CVS
Suresh Sankuratri wrote: Hi, I am new to CVS and am interested to use it via the command line thru DOS.Can some one give me the following details 1. Where can i get the installation /Set-up file for CVS 2. Steps to install 3. Examples for a few commands like checkIn , checkOut ..etc I have no idea about pservers...ssh and all the terminology. Can some one help me? P.S Kindly do not pass any URL or link to any site. Again I am breaking your note of not passing URL. I guess you understand how long the mail will be to explain all the queries have. All your questions are answered in http://cvshome.org. HTH. Cheers. Mahantesh. P.S: Doing some homework before posting a mail is good practice on mailing lists. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
new to CVS
Hi, I am new to CVS and am interested to use it via the command line thru DOS.Can some one give me the following details 1. Where can i get the installation /Set-up file for CVS 2. Steps to install 3. Examples for a few commands like checkIn , checkOut ..etc I have no idea about pservers...ssh and all the terminology. Can some one help me? P.S Kindly do not pass any URL or link to any site. Thanks Regards, Suresh ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
need help please.. new to cvs and having trouble with permissions
Hi all, I'm new to this list as well as to cvs I'm afraid.. I have learnt a lot but still have problems with permissions. I recently installed cvs on my local network on redhat 7.2. Here are some details... Everything is working except for the fact that users and groups aren't working properly. For some reason if I check in a module using wincvs client the files become read-only and owned by that user and another user cant do anything. I'm afraid that I don't quite understand what's going on and really would love a helping hand! Im sure Ive setup the groups and users properly! Can anyone enlighten me on cvs permissions? regards Fred ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: need help please.. new to cvs and having trouble with permissions
fredes writes: Can anyone enlighten me on cvs permissions? Have you read the relevant section of the manual? http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC13 -Larry Jones I sure wish I could get my hands on some REAL dynamite. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: New member and new to CVS
Has CVS ever been used in a client/server environment that includes NT boxes (Windows 2000), and may or may not include a Unix box? Yes. We use a Linux CVS server with primarily Windows clients. There are some unix clients but they are in the minority. There is also an NT based CVS server but I have no experience with it. Mike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: New member and new to CVS
tubadude3 writes: Has CVS ever been used in a client/server environment that includes NT boxes (Windows 2000), and may or may not include a Unix box? Yes. See http://www.wincvs.org/ and http://www.cvsnt.com/ for a GUI client and an NT server. -Larry Jones At times like these, all Mom can think of is how long she was in labor with me. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
New to CVS Need help setting up repo
I have set up a test area and have been playing around with creating repositories. I successfully set up a single subdir containing source code but I am trying to set up a repository containing multiple subdirectories with source code in them. My dir structure is as follows and I initiated the following commands. /cpas/stacy/cvs/incmar01/pub (Both pub and src contain source code) src $pwd /cpas/stacy/cvs/incmar01 $cvs -d /cpas/stacy/cvs/incmar01/ init (This gives me CVSROOT) $cvs import -m init inc stacy start (Here is where I get problems. The following scrolls on the screen until I stop it) N inc/inc/inc/inc/inc/inc/src/inctabu1.sas,v,v,v,v,v When I successfully did this before I cd'ed to the pub dir and did the import. This worked but I don't want to have multiple repositories for each individual subdir. How do I place multiple subdirs with source code into the repository??? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: New to CVS Need help setting up repo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $pwd /cpas/stacy/cvs/incmar01 $cvs -d /cpas/stacy/cvs/incmar01/ init (This gives me CVSROOT) $cvs import -m init inc stacy start (Here is where I get problems. The following scrolls on the screen until I stop it) N inc/inc/inc/inc/inc/inc/src/inctabu1.sas,v,v,v,v,v Your CVSROOT should be a *brand new* directory, not an existing directory that contains source code you want to put under CVS control. Think of the repository as a library. If you have books that you want to put in a library, you don't build a library around where the books already are, you build it somewhere else and then take the books to it. CVS works the same way: init builds the library and import takes (copies) your files into it. Reasonably recent versions of CVS won't let you import inside the library and get the infinite recursion you reported. You really should upgrade. -Larry Jones Is it too much to ask for an occasional token gesture of appreciation?! -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
New to CVS: multiplatform projects
I'm new to CVS, and version control in general. I understand the basic idea of having a repository that preserves the history over time of a software project. My problem is that, for reasons too complex to go into here, I must manage two parallel Java development projects. These two projects are 99 % identical, except in the few areas in which one must be compatible with v. 1.1.8 of the JDK, and the other must be compatible with v. 1.3 of the JDK. The v. 1.3 branch is our main area of development, while the v. 1.1.8 one is a secondary effort to satisfy a significant fraction of our customers who have not upgraded from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. Since the two versions are so similar, it would be convenient to generate the v. 1.1.8 code by applying patches to the v. 1.3 code. (If this were C/C++, the situation could be handled trivially with conditional compilation, but, alas, Java does not have conditional compilation.) This seems like a problem well suited to CVS, but all the introductory material I've read so far centers around the problem updating versions over time, instead of the problem of generating one secondary version from a primary one. It seems to me that, schematically, things would look like this: 1.3-branch-1.1 --1.1.8-branch-1.1 (patch) | v 1.3-branch-1.2 --1.1.8-branch-1.2 (patch) . . . . . . Hence, CVS would have to keep track of not only the diffs between successive versions of the 1.3-branch code, but also the diffs between the 1.1.8-branch and the 1.3 branch. (It is not clear to me whether it would be useful to keep track of the diffs between successive 1.1.8-branch versions, even if it were possible). Can CVS be cajoled into helping with such a problem? Thanks, KJ ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: New to CVS: multiplatform projects
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to CVS, and version control in general. I understand the basic idea of having a repository that preserves the history over time of a software project. My problem is that, for reasons too complex to go into here, I must manage two parallel Java development projects. These two projects are 99 % identical, except in the few areas in which one must be compatible with v. 1.1.8 of the JDK, and the other must be compatible with v. 1.3 of the JDK. In C programming, minor differences between target platforms can be handled using the preprocessor to select alternate areas of program text for translation. In their infinite wisdom, the Java designers decided not to add such a thing. I suggest you add it yourself. The v. 1.3 branch is our main area of development, while the v. 1.1.8 one is a secondary effort to satisfy a significant fraction of our customers who have not upgraded from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. The problem is that this isn't really a branch, but two different targets. Branching is not the appropriate tool for targetting a program to multiple platforms. Since the two versions are so similar, it would be convenient to generate the v. 1.1.8 code by applying patches to the v. 1.3 code. Why not use a preprocessor to generate the code? Those Jva files which need target configuration could be given an extra suffix. Have a Makefile rule which will reduce files which have this suffix to .java files. Can CVS be cajoled into helping with such a problem? Yes, at the cost of doing a lot of merging all the time to keep the branches in sync, all for the sake of a few differences that are largely static! ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
New to CVS
Title: New to CVS I have been tasked with setting up CVS at a remote site. I belive I am almost there with Redhat 7.X but when trying to connect to the server with Wincvs 1.2 I get cvs [login aborted]: connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2401 failed: Object is remote I can not find this error message in any documents I have. Can some one shed some light on this (with details) as I am fairly new to linux also. Thank you in advanced Michael Justice
New to CVS
I'm new to CVS. I'm currently reading the manual, but I've yet to run across an answer to one of my questions. Is CVS layered on top of RCS? Thanks in advance for answering my question. Lisa A. Gifford NOAA/OAR/FSL Aviation Division 325 Broadway R/FS5 Boulder, CO 80305-3328 PH: 303-497-4274 www.fsl.noaa.gov ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: New to CVS
Lisa Gifford writes: I'm new to CVS. I'm currently reading the manual, but I've yet to run across an answer to one of my questions. Is CVS layered on top of RCS? Thanks in advance for answering my question. Yes and no. CVS uses the same file format as RCS does to store the revision history. It used to use RCS commands to manipulate the history, but recent versions have equivalent functionality built-in instead. -Larry Jones Pitiful. Just pitiful. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
new to cvs
i have set the CVSROOT env variable to /usr/local/cvs and am attempting to import a project. i type: cvs import -m "log msg" HireKnowledge username start from within the project directory... and i get the following error: cvs [import aborted]: /usr/local/cvs/CVSROOT: No such file or directory im really lost, can anyone help me with what is undoubtedly a minor/easy problem? thanks ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: new to cvs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and i get the following error: cvs [import aborted]: /usr/local/cvs/CVSROOT: No such file or directory You need to create your repository by doing ``cvs init''. -Larry Jones ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
New to CVS and my project...
I am using a CVS server on a Solaris platform with WinCVS 1.1b8 for a front end. (But I am not afraid of the unix shell interface) How can I find out what files have the same tag. (ie baseline1_0) This baseline1_0 seems to be made up of several modules. Thanks for your input. Sally [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't mess with me! http://www.sarges-online.com/salgun.jpg
