[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 17:44:45 (+1200), Chris Cameron wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
According to the original author of CVS, merging was ONE OF SIX advantages
of CVS, not THE advantage!
You missed the point, again, Chris!
While the ability to
Larry Jones wrote:
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No one on the list can do that. You can, however, do it yourself. As
it says in the headers of every list message:
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[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 11:06:30 (+1000), Sven Dowideit wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Greg - what is wrong with providing extra support for non-mergable files?
There wouldn't be any problem if you could do it
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[ On Thursday, July 12, 2001 at 18:16:29 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Every type of file is mergeable; trivially, the merge can be complete
replacement. In other words, a viable merge algorithm is
Somebody help...?
Is this the right way to rename a jpeg file?
$ mv old new
$ cvs remove old
$ cvs add new
$ cvs commit -m Renamed old to new old new
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Shaikh, Mehmood wrote:
I'm developing an application with a friend who is geographically located
1000 miles from me. We dont have resources at the moment to hava a dial-in
CVS server, etc. So, i was looking to see if someone would host CVS server
for me (for free of course) or provide a
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Somebody help...?
Is this the right way to rename a jpeg file?
$ mv old new
$ cvs remove old
$ cvs add new
$ cvs commit -m Renamed old to new old new
'cvs add new' should be 'cvs add -kb new' (for a jpeg).
-Matt
Meier, Sven wrote:
Hello,
is CVS also available for Windows2000?
The client should work ok, but I'm not sure about the server. See
http://www.cvsnt.org/ for details about the windows-based cvs server.
-Matt
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is there a possibility to check out/update all files that were
up-to-date at a certain point in time?
cvs [co|up] -D date
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[ On Thursday, July 12, 2001 at 16:53:53 (-0500), Thornley,
David wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Except that I'm not banging my head against the wall, and it doesn't
CVS is not, by itself, a configuration management system any more than
it is a build system. It does have several very important features that
allow it to facilitate CM though...
Yes, but it is a version control system. That's what wer'e talking about here.
Noel
This communication is for
What is CVS?
CVS is a version control system. Using it, you can record the
history of your source files.
At the risk of fanning the flames here, I feel I must give my opinion that
source files are
While the ability to use CVS to do merges of branches is but one
advantage of CVS, the need of CVS to do merges on a regular basis is one
of the requirements it has on the data it manipulates.
This situation can be avoided (not prevented) with proper procedures.
Indeed as the above quoted
I'm sending you a little more improved version of script to keep an up to
date copy via autoexport from loginfo. This version tries to remove files
when needed only (e.g. not trying to remove files which are added) and
export files when needed only (e.g. not trying to export files which are
hi all,
Trying to configure cvs with apache.
any pointers to documents or tips ..
AIX4.3.3 CVS apache ..
thanks
Shekhar.
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Hi,
Your configuration looks correct to me.
To see which groups you are actually a member of use the 'id' command. You
should get a list of your uid, gid(s) and their names.
Thanks to give me the idea of looking more carefully to the actual group
settings, the problems comes from here.
Just to finish up, I hate leaving posts unfinished having searched archives
myself to find no answer at the end ;^).
Much thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Jones, Jerry Nairn. After
rereading !!Current Documentation!! and changing some procedures we have
been running fine and made it through a
Dhotre, Shekhar wrote:
hi all,
Trying to configure cvs with apache.
any pointers to documents or tips ..
AIX4.3.3 CVS apache ..
thanks
Shekhar.
If all you need is a read-only web front-end, try
http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net. Otherwise, what are you trying to do?
-Matt
Hello :
We are using CVS SERVER in a RetHat 6.2, and WinCVS 1.2 like Client...
When I tried to connect to cvs server from command prompt :
D:\cvs -d :pserver:cvs_fv@maximus:/home/cvs/test login
Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted] connect to 192.168.1.190:2401
Hi all,
I'm writing a script for commitinfo to execute that checks that all
commited text files go into the repository in Unix line-feed format
(test with 'file', convert with 'dos2unix'). Now the script gets run
fine by commitinfo, and gets the directory and commited filenames fine,
however I
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 17:18:54 (+0530), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ]
Subject: is this right?
Somebody help...?
Is this the right way to rename a jpeg file?
$ mv old new
$ cvs remove old
$ cvs add new
$ cvs commit -m Renamed old to new old new
That's the best way, yes.
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[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 08:39:09 (-0500), Cameron, Steve wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
On the issue of whether storing binary files in CVS is a good
idea, vs. trying to use something else in conjuction with CVS,
my experience has been that putting
Our CVS repository lives on a Network Appliance F840 (running 6.1R1) and
we access it via NFS v2. Occasionally we get errors like the following:
Checking in design_review.tex;
/sweng/CVS/src/doc/design_review.tex,v -- design_review.tex
new revision: 1.6; previous revision: 1.5
cvs [commit
You mean this:
http://www.sub.nu/mod_cvs/
?
Dhotre, Shekhar wrote:
hi all,
Trying to configure cvs with apache.
any pointers to documents or tips ..
AIX4.3.3 CVS apache ..
thanks
Shekhar.
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That's a moot point Steve. If your build system (makefiles, scripts,
source to tools, etc.) is also checked in to your CVS tree then it will
be tagged and you can cvs checkout; make and you'll still ``get
_everything_'' but you won't have *any* problems with binary files in
CVS!
That's right.
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 09:25:58 (-0500), Thornley, David wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Because, so far, nobody's shown me how to make my problems, such as they
are, easier to manage than if I just use CVS.
Well, that might just be because you
Try to telnet to port 2401 .
It may be that port 2401 packets are being filtered.
You could use the rsh/ssh method to access the repository if those protocols
are not filtered.
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[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 10:39:25 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
I don't see how any system (let alone tools) can ever absolutely guarantee no
bugs. If it can, then it might as well guarantee no security holes.
Aegis doesn't
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:18:13PM -0500, John Lash wrote:
I have extracted a directory from CVS using a non-branch label off the trunk of
the source tree.
cvs checkout -r MYLABEL foo
I want to add a file in that directory but I want to add it on a branch
(MYBRANCH).
The usual way
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 00:13:15 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Whenever a merge is required, check if the -kb keyword expansion flag
is applicable. If it is (via command line, .cvsrc, or RCS file, in that
order), use an
Aegis doesn't guarantee no bugs. It simply requires a new test for
every change and re-runs all the old tests, as well as the new test, on
the submitted new code before it can become the baseline.
If the rest of your process is working then no bugs will ever be
re-introduced. If the change is
There's only one problem though How do you handle removal and then
subsequent re-addition of a file on the vendor branch? I don't think
your current script does that from what I can understand of it on one
quick read How about if there were previous local changes to a
removed
On Friday 13 July 2001 12:54, Greg A. Woods wrote:
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 17:18:54 (+0530), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: ]
Subject: is this right?
Somebody help...?
Is this the right way to rename a jpeg file?
$ mv old new
$ cvs remove old
$ cvs add new
$ cvs commit -m
The quick answer is: you can't.
One longer answer is: if you follow the instructions I sent out yesterday
about how to do an import without affecting the mainline (see the
importing vendor branches thread in this mailing list), then you
can easily merge the imported files into your branch without
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 11:00:40 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Indeed as the above quoted documentation hints the initial introdcution
of '-kb' to RCS itself was also primarily to deal with EOL issues.
But what of your
Looking into having CVS do some simple clean up of code, can anyone
recommend a tool for formatting source code? I have only managed to find
astyle. I'm looking to format PHP and Javascript...
DAve
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:06:14PM -0400, Raymund Rimando wrote:
On Friday 13 July 2001 12:54, Greg A. Woods wrote:
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wrote: ]
Is this the right way to rename a jpeg file?
$ mv old new
$ cvs remove old
$ cvs add
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 11:01:11 (-0700), Michael A. Fetterman wrote: ]
Subject: Re: importing vendor branches
There's no need to do anything special for these cases, as the current
cvs import doesn't do anything terribly evil here. The absence of a
releasetag on the vendor branch is
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[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 08:39:09 (-0500), Cameron,
Steve wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
On the issue of whether storing binary files in CVS is a good
idea, vs. trying to use something
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 13:58:39 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Then I fail to see how, as you implied, Aegis will _prevent_ bug fix branches.
It doesn't prevent them. It didn't really allow them originally
though. It might
Hi
Can anyone tell me where CVS stores information such
as tag names on files,branches created etc in the
repository so as to retrieve them later?
Thanks a lot,
Anita Chacko
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Given all that you've stated below, it seems that the crux
of your argument
turns on the ability of a file to be mergable. In my
unadorned, pooh-like
brain, I ask the simple (and rhetorical) question, why?
Why can't I have a
simple switch which tells CVS that for this file or this
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 13:36:39 (-0400), Eric Siegerman wrote: ]
Subject: Re: pvcs to cvs and magic branches
But then, why expend all this extra effort to do something
counter to CVS's documented design, just because you ought to be
able to get away with it? The conversion script
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 14:06:14 (-0400), Raymund Rimando wrote: ]
Subject: Re: is this right?
Is this also applicable to directory names?
Nope. CVS doesn't manage directories -- only the files within them. In
CVS directories are just nebulous bits of scaffolding that appear and
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 14:02:27 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
You still have to plan your use carefully, but at least with plain RCS
you're less likely to get trapped into trying to automate your merges.
(and of course rcsdiff
On Thursday, 12. July 2001 23:45, Eric Siegerman wrote:
Better would be to add an f suboption to -k:
- -kv would be changed as we're discussing, to say
override the stored keyword setting, except for 'b'
- -kvf would do what -kv does now -- always
overrides the stored
Come on guys...for goodness sake, give it a rest (or take it offline).
I think it is safe to say that most of the subscribers of this list would
rather not have all this bickering cluttering their Inbox.
Agree to disagree, and leave it at that.
- Dennis
Anita Chacko writes:
Can anyone tell me where CVS stores information such
as tag names on files,branches created etc in the
repository so as to retrieve them later?
In the RCS files in the repository.
-Larry Jones
Please tell me I'm adopted. -- Calvin
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 11:47:27 (-0700), Mike Castle wrote: ]
Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
And it is one that cvs supports VERY well. Why should I have to have two
solutions for the same problem of working remotely? cvs and scp or rsync
would work
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 12:19:09 (-0700), Jimmy Rimmer wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Or, you could just use the patch for reserved checkouts:
http://www.cvshome.org/cyclic/cvs/dev-reserve.html
No, you can't. That does nothing for branches and
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 12:31:30 (-0700), Anita Chacko wrote: ]
Subject: Where are branches,tags etc stored
Can anyone tell me where CVS stores information such
as tag names on files,branches created etc in the
repository so as to retrieve them later?
Right in every ,v file in the
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 14:20:07 (-0500), Cameron, Steve wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Re-reading my original message, I see I failed to mention those binary
files were 3rd party object code for which we do not have access to
the source code, yet
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 16:30:29 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
OK, we're getting somewhere. Why not make it preventable (eg via a flag and/or
when -kb is used and/or a RCS state and/or some other mechanism)? I don't see
how
Hi --
I have a repository that is accessed via rsh on my company's local
net, which we've been using for about 9 months. Once in a while,
though, access is suddenly cut off. One does 'cvs update', and after
no output for around thirty seconds, one finally gets error messages:
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 16:54:08 (-0500), Cameron, Steve wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
The point of it is that it works as-is for me today. I avoid
the effort of thinking up, (or copying), implementing, testing,
backing up, etc. some other method
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 14:57:41 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
How so? By giving the hint as stated in the proposal, the user has
specified the desired result. Whether the desired result is the same
as the correct result is
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[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 16:40:47 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
I think this is only partially true. Since CVS doesn't currently absolutely
know whether there are any remaining
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:03:09PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 11:47:27 (-0700), Mike Castle wrote: ]
presenting two versions of the files in question to the user.
Currently CVS does not present to versions of the file to the user.
Yes it does.
I tested it
Lucas Bergman writes:
I have a repository that is accessed via rsh on my company's local
net, which we've been using for about 9 months. Once in a while,
though, access is suddenly cut off. One does 'cvs update', and after
no output for around thirty seconds, one finally gets error
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[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 12:39:29 (-0400), Steven Rosenstein wrote: ]
Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Given all that you've stated below, it seems that the crux of your argument
turns on the ability of a file to be
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[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 14:57:41 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
How so? By giving the hint as stated in the proposal, the user has
specified the desired result. Whether the desired
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