SOS..Need Help Fast.

2001-06-26 Thread vignesh
Hi guys, I have set up a remote CVS repository on RED HAT linux 6.2 machine. I am able to login, import modules etc. when I try to check out a module I get this error. cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore:Permission denied cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied I

Multiple export to the same dir

2001-06-26 Thread Alexander . Meurer
Hi, I use CVS to control revisions of an HTML project. On the web server I have a development area, where I can test my files and commit them to CVS. If I want to release a new version, I would like to export the files to the directory where the live version resides. But CVS complains that it

how to delete the module?

2001-06-26 Thread kamesh jayachandran
Hai all, I am just creating some dummy modules in my repository to demonstrate the capabilities of cvs server to my win32 vss users.I am manually deleting the directories concerned for each module after demo(from the shell).How to do it neatly thro cvs client?Is the way I am doing is safe or

Re: CVS for student shared projects

2001-06-26 Thread Noel L Yap
CVS is meant for group use. Set CVS_RSH=ssh (or ssh2) for authentication (or you may want to stick to plain old rsh). Noel |+--- || | || [EMAIL PROTECTED]| || q.edu.au | ||

RE: SOS..Need Help Fast.

2001-06-26 Thread kumaravels
check the CVSROOT variable and permission of the same.. Also check the environment variable $CVSIGNORE if it points to /root/.cvsignore. reassign the variable as $HOME/.cvsignore for individual user. hope this works -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: SOS..Need Help Fast.

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
RTFM: http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC182 donald On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:40:42PM +, vignesh wrote: Hi guys, I have set up a remote CVS repository on RED HAT linux 6.2 machine. I am able to login, import modules etc. when I try to check out a module I get this error.

Re: Multiple export to the same dir

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:07:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use CVS to control revisions of an HTML project. On the web server I have a development area, where I can test my files and commit them to CVS. If I want to release a new version, I would like to export the files

Re: how to delete the module?

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:38:54PM -0400, kamesh jayachandran wrote: Hai all, I am just creating some dummy modules in my repository to demonstrate the capabilities of cvs server to my win32 vss users.I am manually deleting the directories concerned for each module after demo(from the

Re: Watches-- how to use?

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
You need to create a notification methodology. http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_10.html#SEC91 donald On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:00:00PM -0700, Jeeva Sarma wrote: Hi Can anyone tell me how I can have 5 people to watch 2 files and interact so that they can inform others if one of them is

Re: how to delete the module?

2001-06-26 Thread kamesh jayachandran
Hai, You mean Module once imported should not be deleted? with regards kamesh jayachandran On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Donald Sharp wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:38:54PM -0400, kamesh jayachandran wrote: Hai all, I am just creating some dummy modules in my repository to demonstrate the

Re: .doc file concerns

2001-06-26 Thread Ralph Mack
I also need to store and version my design documentation with the code that implements the design. I have some rather strong requirements for meaningful use - 1) The most important content will be pictures - class and ladder diagrams - with explanatory text. I also use sidebars, i.e.

Re: how to delete the module?

2001-06-26 Thread Donald Sharp
No. I mean there is no way to entirely remove a unwanted module through cvs. Delete the unwanted demo module by hand. donald On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:27:04PM -0400, kamesh jayachandran wrote: Hai, You mean Module once imported should not be deleted? with regards kamesh jayachandran On

Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Keyes
Anyone have any good ideas? I've gotten my WinCVS to interact correctly with CVS on a Linux server... now I'm looking for a good (free) diff program. Thanks! Matt ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CVS/Vis Studio 6

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Keyes
I got my CVS server to work correctly with WinCVS now, but I have the following situation (which is not necessarily a huge problem, but could be the indication of something wrong): I had created several projects under Visual Studio 6 (Vis C++). I imported the ASCII files (i.e. .h, .cpp) to CVS

Re: How to avoid conflicts avalanche

2001-06-26 Thread Chris Sharpe
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Sergiy wrote: Our software has different modifications for different countries. Thus in our cvs repository we have the main development trunk, and country branches. When we cut a new major release on the trunk, we need to merge from the trunk to all country branches.

RE: Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Giang, Richard P
Try Visual Diff from StarBase Corporation. Richard Giang Phone (281)244-4703 -Original Message- From: Matt Keyes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good Win32 Diff Program... Anyone have any good ideas? I've

subscription request

2001-06-26 Thread Sunil

Re: CVS/Vis Studio 6

2001-06-26 Thread Laine Stump
Matt Keyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had created several projects under Visual Studio 6 (Vis C++). I imported the ASCII files (i.e. .h, .cpp) to CVS with the following command (run from the Linux box... I transferred the files there first): cvs import -m Source Code Source mkeyes

Re: SOS..Need Help Fast.

2001-06-26 Thread Daniel Beckham
I'm assuming you are using a pserver here? To stop the first error, you need to put -f in your cvs startup command. I have no idea about the second error unless it's related to the first. Daniel - Original Message - From: vignesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Newbie query on login

2001-06-26 Thread Matthew Riechers
kamesh jayachandran wrote: No cvs co - [c|s] is not giving the result that I am expecting Just try out cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvspublic login password:anoncvs then try out cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvspublic co -c It is giving something like, .

RE: CVS/Vis Studio 6

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Keyes
On the same note... how can I issue commands from a Win32 machine to a Linux CVS server without WinCVS? Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laine Stump Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:08 AM To: Matt Keyes Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: .doc file concerns

2001-06-26 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Mike Castle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .doc file concerns On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:56:34PM -0700, Anita Chacko wrote: Any alternate way to handle .doc files? Switch from

Windows servers

2001-06-26 Thread Kent Annergrund
Hi, We are interested in maintaining a repository of docs and program files on the same OS as they are created - Windows NT or 2000. Why is Windows versions of cvs servers considered 'experimental'? What are the main problems with them? Does it exist any 'stable' Windows version of a cvs

RE: Am I wrong?

2001-06-26 Thread Delos Nash
Thanks. I understand what you were saying now. Have a good day. Del Nash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 6:53 PM To: Delos Nash Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Am I wrong? [ On Monday, June 25, 2001 at 15:26:45

RE: Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Keyes
I looked at cvs diff via WinCVS... just looking for something a little prettier since WinCVS will support external diff progs. Since I'm planning on using WinCVS, I thought I might find something to sidestep a command prompt (just one more extra step). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: CVS/Vis Studio 6

2001-06-26 Thread Matthew Riechers
Matt Keyes wrote: On the same note... how can I issue commands from a Win32 machine to a Linux CVS server without WinCVS? Thanks! Use the command prompt. 'cvs --help-commands' should get you started. -Matt ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Windows servers

2001-06-26 Thread Matthew Riechers
Kent Annergrund wrote: Hi, We are interested in maintaining a repository of docs and program files on the same OS as they are created - Windows NT or 2000. Why is Windows versions of cvs servers considered 'experimental'? What are the main problems with them? Does it exist any

Re: Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Dennis Jones
Since he is using WinCVS, he probably wants to use a graphical diff tool (supported by WinCVS), and graphical diff tools are MUCH more useful than the command line cvs diff. You can use Microsoft's WinDiff (which is not all that great), or you can use StarBase's Visual Diff (which is much

Re: Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Matthew Riechers
Dennis Jones wrote: Since he is using WinCVS, he probably wants to use a graphical diff tool (supported by WinCVS), and graphical diff tools are MUCH more useful than the command line cvs diff. That's debatable ;-) IMHO, GUI diff tools are only more useful when merging files by hand (drag

Re: Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Matthew Riechers
Matt Keyes wrote: I looked at cvs diff via WinCVS... just looking for something a little prettier since WinCVS will support external diff progs. Since I'm planning on using WinCVS, I thought I might find something to sidestep a command prompt (just one more extra step). Not to beat this

Re: Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Laine Stump
Matthew Riechers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMHO, GUI diff tools are only more useful when merging files by hand (drag 'n drop lines, etc). This scenario should hardly come up under typical use of CVS, since it merges for you. Readability of GUI or CLI styles is a matter of taste. One thing a

Re: How to avoid conflicts avalanche

2001-06-26 Thread ATD Hill, Bruce
Title: Re: How to avoid conflicts avalanche On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Sergiy wrote: Our software has different modifications for different countries. Thus in our cvs repository we have the main development trunk, and country branches. When we cut a new major release on the trunk, we need to

RE: Good Win32 Diff Program

2001-06-26 Thread ATD Hill, Bruce
Title: RE: Good Win32 Diff Program Matt Keyes wrote: Anyone have any good ideas? I've gotten my WinCVS to interact correctly with CVS on a Linux server... now I'm looking for a good (free) diff program. Thanks! Matt We're using ExamDiff, www.nisnevich.com/examdiff/examdiff.htm, a

cvs user creation

2001-06-26 Thread kamesh jayachandran
Hai all, Sorry to repost. I don't want to create regular system user accounts for my users.In stead cvs specific user accounts for each user corresponding to one system user account for the project this cvs user involved in. What I need is something like cvsadduser,cvsdeluser,cvsmoduser which

RE: Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Keyes
That's debatable ;-) IMHO, GUI diff tools are only more useful when merging files by hand (drag 'n drop lines, etc). This scenario should hardly come up under typical use of CVS, since it merges for you. Readability of GUI or CLI styles is a matter of taste. One thing a GUI diff *can not* do is

Re: cvs user authentication

2001-06-26 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16 -0400, kamesh jayachandran wrote: I have to set up cvs across the organisation of 400+ people.I can create regular system accounts for all the users(400) and group them according to their projects. I do not want to create regular system account instead a single

Re: cvs user creation

2001-06-26 Thread Matthew Riechers
kamesh jayachandran wrote: Hai all, Sorry to repost. I don't want to create regular system user accounts for my users.In stead cvs specific user accounts for each user corresponding to one system user account for the project this cvs user involved in. What I need is something like

Re: Good Win32 Diff Program...

2001-06-26 Thread Felix von Delius
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:57:55AM -0500, Matt Keyes wrote: Anyone have any good ideas? I've gotten my WinCVS to interact correctly with CVS on a Linux server... now I'm looking for a good (free) diff program. Thanks! Try csdiff. It's free and you can find it at the following place:

Almost simultaneous commits causing incorrect email messages

2001-06-26 Thread Sanjay Bhatia
Hi, We have a problem that shows up once in a while when 2 users commit files at almost the same time. The email message that gets sent out is incorrect and contains the wrong filenames. Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone know of a fix for this? Thanks, sb

RE: Is CVS free for commercial development?

2001-06-26 Thread Peter Ring
I was actually thinking of this new Microsoft EULA when I asked. Not that I'd like to do a non-GPL client; and it would probably be necessary to study not only the protocol documentation, but also the cvs source code, i.e., it would be difficult to prove that I had not lifted a bit of code from

Re[2]: Renaming a branch

2001-06-26 Thread Boris
Hello Karl-Heinz, Monday, June 25, 2001, 1:25:52 PM, you wrote: KHM Hi Boris, KHM i assumbe you mean rename the branch tag? Yes, that was my problem. I had created a branch with a name, people checked out and later the branch name was not the right name for the end result of this branch. KHM

Re: .doc file concerns

2001-06-26 Thread Paul Sander
The thing is, most writers seem to prefer WYSIWYG editors such as Word or Frame Maker to using mark-up languages. This is reasonable, because they're much more productive with such tools, especially since they're much more concerned with an attractive presentation than are engineers who happen

RE: Am I wrong?

2001-06-26 Thread Paul Sander
Agreed. My tool of choice for software reuse used to be the editor, until I inherited 60,000 lines of code from someone who felt the same way. Now my tool of choice for software reuse is the linker. -- me, 1988 Abstracting out the shared code into shared or static libraries is far easier than

Re: Almost simultaneous commits causing incorrect email messages

2001-06-26 Thread Paul Sander
It sounds like your *info script has a hard-coded temporary file name that assembles the message. Try making it unique for each invocation of the script. --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have a problem that shows up once in a while when 2 users commit files at almost the same

RE: .doc file concerns

2001-06-26 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 6:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .doc file concerns The thing is, most writers seem to prefer WYSIWYG editors such as Word or Frame Maker to using mark-up languages.

Re: .doc file concerns

2001-06-26 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at 16:13:38 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: .doc file concerns The thing is, most writers seem to prefer WYSIWYG editors such as Word or Frame Maker to using mark-up languages. This is reasonable, because they're much more productive with such tools,

Re: .doc file concerns

2001-06-26 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:13:38PM -0700, Paul Sander wrote: The thing is, most writers seem to prefer WYSIWYG editors such as Word or Frame Maker to using mark-up languages. This is reasonable, because they're much more productive with such tools, especially since they're much more concerned

Re: cvs user creation

2001-06-26 Thread Peter Ajamian
kamesh jayachandran wrote: Hai all, Sorry to repost. I don't want to create regular system user accounts for my users.In stead cvs specific user accounts for each user corresponding to one system user account for the project this cvs user involved in. What I need is something like

Re: .doc file concerns

2001-06-26 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at 16:13:38 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: .doc file concerns The thing is, most writers seem to prefer WYSIWYG editors such as Word or Frame Maker to using mark-up languages. This is reasonable, because

RE: .doc file concerns

2001-06-26 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 6:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .doc file concerns The thing is, most writers seem to prefer WYSIWYG editors such as Word or