Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread irina sturm
Hi, I am trying to understand how sticky tags work (or they are useful). One way is to identify branches, this seems pretty clear. The other way is (according to the manual), to allow a user to avoid updating a portion of a larger tree into his working copy. I then tried to imagine a

Re: checking out modules into an existing directory

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Riechers
Jason Allen wrote: The directory I'm checking it out into, isn't controlled by CVS (no CVS folders). I am using cvs co -d dest module, I have also tried to just name the module on the server the same as the existing directory and then check it out into one directory higher. I get the

Re: Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread Mark
--- irina sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to keep up with the modifications other users perform on file_1, but not on file_2. I want to incorporate the other users modifications on file_2 only when I've finished my own modifications. Then the sequence of commands to achieve this

Re: Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread irina sturm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- irina sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to keep up with the modifications other users perform on file_1, but not on file_2. I want to incorporate the other users modifications on file_2 only when I've finished my own modifications. Then the

Re: Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread Mark
--- irina sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will need to update -A on file_2 to commit it. If you didn't have to do this before commiting (and say the latest is 1.6), you would lose everyone elses modifications since version 1.3 Once you do the update -A on

Re: RTFM? [ was Re: cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root']

2001-07-11 Thread Robert Koberg
don't know if you all know this or not but it helps me when I can't find what I need (which is often) on a particualr site: at google.com's input field: __ | site:cvshome.org error messages |and hit enter --- site: is a command and so

Re: problem with remotehost

2001-07-11 Thread krishna rama
hello sir, I was run this command cvs -d :pserver:prasadm@tsl:/usr/local/newrepos login.Before run this command I was set all instructions whatever mentioned in the documentation.we geting an error connection refused..After that I was found in the troubleshooting for make sure

Re: Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread Edouard Cugni
Hi Irina, Perhaps it could be a good idea to have a look at this. http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#Getting_Snapshots__Dates_And_Tagging_ You surely will understand why sticky tags are, and how they works ! (Buying the book is also a good idea) Edouard

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Daniel Beckham
Greg, as someone else pointed out. It's a rare project that does not have a few binary files peppered in the source for various reasons. Although, in your mind it would make the most sense to maintain those in a seperate facility, in my opinion, it's stupid and inefficient. Just because you

Re: problem with remotehost

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Riechers
krishna rama wrote: hello sir, I was run this command cvs -d :pserver:prasadm@tsl:/usr/local/newrepos login.Before run this command I was set all instructions whatever mentioned in the documentation.we geting an error connection refused..After that I was found in the

Re: CVS on AIX 4.2

2001-07-11 Thread Steven Rosenstein
Hi Guy, I would expect that the version of CVS compiled under AIX V4.3 will *not* work under V4.2, and that you will need to compile your own if you can't find a 4.2-compiled version. AIX V4.3 contained a lot of new and updated libraries, and I would be very surprised if the 4.3 executable

Re: Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread irina sturm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- irina sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will need to update -A on file_2 to commit it. If you didn't have to do this before commiting (and say the latest is 1.6), you would lose everyone elses modifications since version 1.3

Re: checking out modules into an existing directory

2001-07-11 Thread Jason Allen
I figured out a way to check the module out into an existing directory. I simply created a CVS folder and then created an empty Entries file and created a empty Repository file and add the name of the module to the Repository file. Now it works great, thanks for your help Matthew. Jason A.

Problem with CvsWeb

2001-07-11 Thread Arash Khodabandeh
Hi, I am using CvsWeb (almost the latest version.) From yesterday I have a strange behaviors. When connecting to it: - I get a message at the top of each page saying that it does not find gzip in $PATH. - Opening any folder with files in it, says: NOTE: There are n files, but none matches

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2001-07-11 Thread Anwar,Raquib
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RE: problem with remotehost

2001-07-11 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: krishna rama [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] tcp nowait root /bin/echo echo hello .After make this I was run telnet servername 2401 for this also we geting error telnet:Unable to connect to remote host:connetion refused.I was given all detailes whatever i

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Noel L Yap
You can cry using the cvs edit -c, cvs edit -f', and cvs ci -c patches available at www.sourceforge.com under project RCVS. I think I named them reservation.diff. Noel |+--- || | || [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ||

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 08:52:37 (-0500), Daniel Beckham wrote: ] Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data? Greg, as someone else pointed out. It's a rare project that does not have a few binary files peppered in the source for various reasons. Although, in your

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 08:52:37 (-0500), Daniel Beckham wrote: ] Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data? Greg, as someone else pointed out. It's a rare project that does

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Peter Fox
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:44 AM To: Daniel Beckham Cc: CVS-II Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data? [ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 08:52:37 (-0500),

Correct options for export

2001-07-11 Thread Ingolf Steinbach
Hi, people keep suggesting to use -kv keyword substitution with export. I'd definitly like to use it, but we have some binary files in the repository which might be corrupted during export -kv (see also http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_12.html#SEC102). What is the reason that the -k option is

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Lan Barnes
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 08:52:37 (-0500), Daniel Beckham wrote: ] Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data? Greg, as someone else pointed out. It's a rare project that does not have a few binary files peppered in the source for various

cvsweb installation

2001-07-11 Thread Datla, Raghav
Hi, I am trying to configure Cvsweb on AIX4.3 server.I am having cvs-1.11, perl5.005_03 and apache1.3.6(working fine) on the same box. Is it compulsory that i should have rlog and rcsdiff to install before configuring Cvsweb.If that is the case where can i get those utilities. any other

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Jeff King
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thornley, David Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? Why? It may make sense to you, with your applications, but I don't see that it makes

moving files from a branch to the Main trunk

2001-07-11 Thread Ketan Shah
HI I have many files that are branched and have the tag next_release. I would like to collapse this branch and have these files on the main trunk. so that when a developer checks out files he/she does not have to use the -r option. Thanks ketan

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:29:08PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: Exactly. Source code and binary data are quite conceptually different. Not always. Both can be used to create an executable (embedded icons, for instance). So, from the viewpoint of source items that are used to make a final

Re: Correct options for export

2001-07-11 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:00:23PM +0200, Ingolf Steinbach wrote: if they were checked in as binary? I believe that many users would appreciate a change which ignores -k for binary files. So when are you going to contribute the code that does it? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL

Re: CVS

2001-07-11 Thread Lan Barnes
Anwar,Raquib wrote: I am a new CVS user. While trying to update any file from the repository using netbeans, I get following error. The repo is in an nt server and our workstaton are also NT. We are using pserver (with no password). My user name is correct on passwd file and also CVSROOT

Re: moving files from a branch to the Main trunk

2001-07-11 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:33:48AM -0700, Ketan Shah wrote: HI I have many files that are branched and have the tag next_release. I would like to collapse this branch and have these files on the main trunk. so that when a developer checks out files he/she does not have to use the -r

Re: Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
--- irina sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand: if I am doing what you say, I am not preserving myself of integrating the other users' modifications before finishing with my own, but just doing the same as for file_1. To do this (i.e. make and commit changes without (yet)

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Noel L Yap
Not only that, but CVS does't handle code reformats elegantly at all. Philosophically, this means that CVS can't merge source code under all conditions. Does this mean you shouldn't use it when such tasks can occur? Of course not, All it means is that these situations need to be controlled so

Re: moving files from a branch to the Main trunk

2001-07-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:33:48AM -0700, Ketan Shah wrote: I would like to collapse this branch and have these files on the main trunk. Use the -j option to cvs update. See the manual for details. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / With

Re: cvsweb installation

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Riechers
Datla, Raghav wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure Cvsweb on AIX4.3 server.I am having cvs-1.11, perl5.005_03 and apache1.3.6(working fine) on the same box. Is it compulsory that i should have rlog and rcsdiff to install before configuring Cvsweb.If that is the case where can i get

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:12:30AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Monday, July 9, 2001 at 00:01:01 (-0400), Eric Siegerman wrote: ] Well, with CVS the meaning of frozen file is quite a bit different. In the most basic sense what I'm saying is that -kv should be the default for cvs export.

Re: moving files from a branch to the Main trunk-clarification

2001-07-11 Thread Ketan Shah
Clarification from my earlier post. I do NOT want to merge my changes. I just want the branched file on the main trunk. Earlier post--- I have many files that are branched and have the tag next_release. I would like to collapse this branch and have these files on the main trunk. so that

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Noel L Yap
I had meant to say that source code is not CVS-mergable in the strictest sense of the word. Noel Not only that, but CVS does't handle code reformats elegantly at all. Philosophically, this means that CVS can't merge source code under all conditions. Does this mean you shouldn't use it when

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Jeff King
I think there's a major difference between datatypes that are occasionally difficult to automatically merge (source code) and datatypes that are fundamentally unmergable (bitmaps). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Noel L Yap Sent:

Re: CVS For VMS

2001-07-11 Thread Martin Eismann
Hello dear list-members! I am very interested getting an OpenVMS-Alpha-binary (maybe client and server? would be great!!). Upper mentioned wildcard-support would be excellent... Has anybody compiled/linked a OpenVMS-Client from actual sources? I have linked CVS v1.11 on an Alpha

RE: Sticky tags

2001-07-11 Thread Chris Cameron
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RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Noel L Yap
What's the difference? In either case you'll have to handle the merge on your own. What about binary files for which there already exists a merge algorithm (eg Word docs)? Noel |+--- || | || [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |

Re: moving files from a branch to the Main trunk-clarification

2001-07-11 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:00:46PM -0700, Ketan Shah wrote: Clarification from my earlier post. I do NOT want to merge my changes. I just want the branched file on the main trunk. In a separate area: cvs export -r branch In the sandbox: cvs up -A find . -name CVS -prune -o -type f -print |

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Jeff King
The difference is that CVS is an excellent tool for managing source code, because the VAST majority of cases involving concurrent editing of source code is automatically mergable, and in the case of conflicts it is easy to mark the differences between the files to make it easy to fix by hand. CVS

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Jeff King
No, my recommendation would be to not use CVS with Delphi 3 or earlier. However, version 4 and later of Delphi support text-based forms. We use Delphi 5, and it works great with CVS. We keep resource files (for icons, toolbar bitmaps, and other images) outside of the repository. Instead of

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:31:42PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: There could be hooks for handling mergable binary formats, but at that point I think a tool other than CVS would be more appropriate. Can you suggest such a tool? That's free? That supports networking? That supports branching?

Best way to share repositories

2001-07-11 Thread Eric Hawkins
Due to corporate paranoia, we cannot open our network to let our customer access our common CVS repository. We are working on a design together. That means every other week we have to tar and zip the entire thing and send it to the other party, and sit on top of check-in's until we get it back

RE: cvsweb

2001-07-11 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
We are just having the not match cuurent tag issue. The admin here says it is CVS but I don't think it is. To fix the other problem, you need to fix your PATH. Address not the web server but the cvsweb.conf and uncomment the PATH and make sure you add where ever your gzip is to the PATH.

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Thornley, David
-Original Message- From: Jeff King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thornley, David Sent:

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thornley, David Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? Why? It may make sense to you, with your

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:31:42PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: There could be hooks for handling mergable binary formats, but at that point I think a tool other than CVS would be more appropriate. Can you suggest such a tool? That's free? That supports

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Chris Cameron
How do you KNOW you're pulling in the correct resource for the particular icon etc. Does each change in an icon result in a new resource file? How do you ensure that you can always exactly recreate a previous release or does 'exactly recreate' only apply to your source code?

problem in Configuring CVSweb

2001-07-11 Thread Datla, Raghav
Hi, I am trying to configure CVSweb on AIX4.3.In the process of that i am trying to install rcs-5.7 to have rlog and rcsdiff through source code. when i am running ./configure script from the source dir of rcs-5.7, its giving the following output. loading cache ./config.cache checking diff

How can i give access rights at Directory level in CVS.

2001-07-11 Thread Bhavaniprasad Polimetla
Dear Sir, We have directorys like as shown. src |--login_module |--dataentry_module |--calc_module |--report_module We have the users. robert, john, satya, Now i need to give checkin rights to robert only on login_module. he need to have rights to checkout other modules. In the same

Re: The hated $Log$ keyword

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 15:40:04 (-0400), Eric Siegerman wrote: ] Subject: Re: The hated $Log$ keyword On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:12:30AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: In the most basic sense what I'm saying is that -kv should be the default for cvs export. Ah, now I get it.

Set UID bit on files

2001-07-11 Thread Cheyne Wagner
I have some shell scripts that I need a setuid bit on the file for when it executes. However whenever I commit or do an update using CVS this set uid bit is removed and new file permissions are assigned to the file. Is there anyway that I can update files from CVS without losing the

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 16:07:14 (-0400), Jeff King wrote: ] Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? I think there's a major difference between datatypes that are occasionally difficult to automatically merge (source code) and datatypes that are fundamentally

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 16:31:42 (-0400), Jeff King wrote: ] Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? The difference is that CVS is an excellent tool for managing source code, because the VAST majority of cases involving concurrent editing of source code is

Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 14:13:29 (-0700), Mike Castle wrote: ] Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data? Can you suggest such a tool? That's free? That supports networking? That supports branching? Exactly what IS the better mousetrap? Sorry, you're asking the

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 13:28:55 (-0400), Peter Fox wrote: ] Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? But why re-invent the wheel. If CVS gives you 95% of what you want, when spend 10 weeks on obtaining the last 5%. It's not worth it. IFF (if and _only_ if!)

Re: Correct options for export

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 20:00:23 (+0200), Ingolf Steinbach wrote: ] Subject: Correct options for export people keep suggesting to use -kv keyword substitution with export. I'd definitly like to use it, but we have some binary files in the repository which might be corrupted during

RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

2001-07-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 11:35:14 (-0500), Thornley, David wrote: ] Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? OK, what? For my purposes, it has to support concurrent development and branching, and right now my company isn't going to spend gobs of money. It has to

CVS Server and Proxies

2001-07-11 Thread Haug Thomas
Hi everbody, I´m a newbie to the CVS system and have the following problem: I try to access an CVS Server (at www.openorb.org) using WinCVS 1.2. Trying to login in at the remote CVS server always results in : NEW CVSROOT: pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/openorb (password authentication using a