Re: Why can't root check in files?

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:37:47PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, I still think that I'm onto something good here - the cvs > control of Unix config files. Unfortunately, this sensible cvs feature > utterly prevents me from providing this useful facility. Use something like GNU's cfe

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg A. Woods wrote: >> * 'cvs log BAR' does not list changes in file FOO > >Of course not You do not want it to! That would be illogical. That is false. Just because the tool doesn't do something doesn't mean we don't *want* it or that it is illogical. Some

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

At least in pserver access it is and I think it is also available in for local repository access as well. I am not sure about :ext: access though. I agree that its contents and its structure is entirely internal to CVS and may change without notice from one CVS release to another. I do not write

Re: Why can't root check in files?

On 10 Oct, Larry Jones wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root' > > > > Can someone explain this to me, please? It's a major problem for me. > > I had a look through the FAQ and the cvs document, but could find no > > mention of it. > >

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

[ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 08:24:11 (+0530), Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: ] > Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in > > Wondering why this enhancement is needed in the commitinfo interface when > you can always get the branch information out of the CVS/Entries file which > is always ava

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

[ On , October 10, 2001 at 17:31:23 (-0400), Sam Steingold wrote: ] > Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: rename in cvs] > > if you rename FOO to BAR "the right way", i.e., > > $ mv FOO BAR > $ cvs rm FOO > $ cvs add BAR > $ cvs ci BAR > > then you lose in many ways: No, you lose absolutely no

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

[ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 14:40:11 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] > Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: rename in cvs] > > In one method, you lose the ability to get a file's entire revision history > in one place (i.e. you must track down its old location(s) and fetch > additional histo

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

Yes it is - I use that same kind of scenario down here in my workplace. I had posted a script to do this sometime back on this list, a Python script I forget the name of the author - apologies) was also posted a couple of weeks back which achieves the same thing - searching the archives should u

RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

Is CVS/Entries available to the commitinfo script when the repository is on a Unix server and the developer is working on an NT client (pserver)? If so, I can put something together. With companies like mine that have so many branches in order to support a number of back and future releases, I

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

Wondering why this enhancement is needed in the commitinfo interface when you can always get the branch information out of the CVS/Entries file which is always available to the commitinfo script. Thanks Shubho -Original Message- From: Pyatt, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Brad L. Chisho

Re: CVS import branching question

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chalmers, Tim wrote: >I am experiencing some weirdness that I do not understand. I am issuing the >following commands: > >cvs import -m InititalRelease GyLocation VenderTag ReleaseTag >cvs checkout filename >cvs status filename > > >The output looks like: > >Fi

RE: moving a tag

> From: Arcin Bozkurt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 6:35 AM > Will the following command update the tag Dev13 to point to > the newest versions in the repository?? (It should work only > for the files that were tagged with this tagname before) > > cvs rtag -F

Re: Module directory nameing....

Does this mean I could do this in the modules file?? foo-jsp -d foo foo-jsp/dir foo-html -d foo foo-html/dir and the when a user does this: cvs checkout foo-jsp it will get copied to foo and so will this cvs checkout foo-html ?? Kaz Kylheku wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryon La

RE: How to lock CVS for check-in

"How to lock a branch?" This seems to be the number one question posted to info-cvs. I posted it myself two years ago. Is there anyway this enhancement can get rolled into a future release of cvs (e.g., 1.12)? If not, is the fear that it may break existing commitinfo scripts? Thanks, -Scott

Re: cvs exit status

>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 10:57:50 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: cvs exit status >> >> Under some error conditions, the exit status gets incremented rather than >> being set to a fixed value. That means that under those error

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * On the subject of "Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: rename in cvs]" > * Sent on Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:06:14 -0400 (EDT) > * Honorable [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes: > > [ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 10:52:04 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] > > Subject

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 10:52:04 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: rename in cvs] >> >> Generally speaking, renaming stuff in CVS is royal pain. You always lose >> something. It's up to you to decide wha

How to set-up CVS server on RedHat 7.1 to use from Netbeans?

Hello: I have the following development environment: Dell Laptop Windows 2000 JDK 1.3 Netbeans 3.2 I need to share a project with several developers that are remotely located. Therefore, I am thinking of setting up a CVS server on a RedHat 7.1 machine that I hav

Re: CVS:short path

> "Sawasy, Matthew" wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm currently in the process of installing CVS on Solaris. One of the > senior geeks wants the CVSROOT to be as simple as possible for the > developers. That being said my question is: > > Do you know of a method in CVS of shortening the path from say

Re: CVS:short path

Sawasy, Matthew writes: > > Do you know of a method in CVS of shortening the path from say > > :pserver:foo@bar:/usr/local/cvs_rep > > to > > :pserver:foo@bar:/cvs_rep > > while keeping the repository in /usr/local/cvs_rep and not using a symbolic > link? Some systems have a loopback

Re: cvs exit status

[ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 10:57:50 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] > Subject: Re: cvs exit status > > Under some error conditions, the exit status gets incremented rather than > being set to a fixed value. That means that under those error conditions, > the exit status varies and may some

Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

You can selectively lock branches, but only if the branch info can get passed to your commitinfo script. We have "enhanced" the commitinfo interface locally to send additional parameters we find useful, including the branch info. I'd be happy to send the diffs (commit.c), if anyone is intereste

CVS:short path

Title: CVS:short path Hello! I'm currently in the process of installing CVS on Solaris.  One of the senior geeks wants the CVSROOT to be as simple as possible for the developers.  That being said my question is: Do you know of a method in CVS of shortening the path from say     :pserve

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

[ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 10:52:04 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] > Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: rename in cvs] > > Generally speaking, renaming stuff in CVS is royal pain. You always lose > something. It's up to you to decide what you're willing to give up. You never loose any

Re: cvs [login aborted]: connect to 216.254.34.156:2401 failed: Connection timed out

Matt Burba writes: > > I am a newbie to cvs and I am having problems logging in as a client > from my work machine (WinNT). The server I am logging into is running > Linux and I have no trouble connecting from home (using WinCVS or > Forte For Java's built in client). I am DEFINITELY behind a f

Re: CVS client port and proxys

david delbecq writes: > > Am trying to use the cvs tool (client part) from behind a proxy (running on a > RedHat). The configuration of the proxy fobids me to connect (I always receive > a connection timed out) to public cvs servers. Do you mean a firewall? > Does somebody know the lines to a

Re: file,t

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > What are and of what purpose are *,t-files? > In my case they seem to be appeared when new files where created. Exactly. The *,t file stores the message you supplied (with -m) to the add command until you commit the file (and the message goes into the RCS file). >

Re: How to handle drive letters on 'Windows

Chris Nelson writes: > > cvs -d "C:\Data Files\Repository" import ... > > but keep getting a parsing error. The : confuses cvs. Is there a > command line workaround? Pay careful attention to the fourth paragraph. -Larry Jones I like

Re: committing alias modules

Brooke Smith writes: > > It seems obvious that commit doesn't work with module alias files - > commit must only work with files and directories in the current working > directory. Exactly. "checkout" and the various r* commands are the only CVS commands that work on modules -- all the other c

Re: Why can't root check in files?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root' > > Can someone explain this to me, please? It's a major problem for me. > I had a look through the FAQ and the cvs document, but could find no > mention of it. Here's what the current development version of the

No $Name$ substitution

Hello, I would like to use the $Name$ within my source code, but have failed to get a substitution to work. I've done something like cvs co -rHot-1 module if I do cvs status, the Sticky tag is set to Hot-1. looking into the source code only shows $Name: $ I've also tried cvs export -rHot-1 mo

RE: deprecated caommand in 1.11.1.1

[ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 09:22:50 (-0400), Stanton, Curt (NCI/IMS) wrote: ] > Subject: RE: deprecated caommand in 1.11.1.1 > > Well, I am planning on getting comfortable with the concurrent part > of it, but why not get comfortable with it using CVS seeing as there was > some sort

Re: cvs exit status

Under some error conditions, the exit status gets incremented rather than being set to a fixed value. That means that under those error conditions, the exit status varies and may sometimes indicate success (due to overflow) if there are a lot of problems. So, exit status is not a reliable way to

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

Or, you could copy the ,v file to the new location and move the original to the Attic. (Well, that's true if the rename is on the trunk. If it's on a branch only, don't move to the Attic.) That at least leaves the original version history in its original location. The downside that, of course,

cvs [login aborted]: connect to 216.254.34.156:2401 failed: Connection timed out

I am a newbie to cvs and I am having problems logging in as a client from my work machine (WinNT). The server I am logging into is running Linux and I have no trouble connecting from home (using WinCVS or Forte For Java's built in client). I am DEFINITELY behind a firewall at work that I have no

Re: rolling back

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, r w wrote: >Hey all, >time for a newbie question i believe. I was curious if there was a way to >roll back to a previous version utilizing cvs AND deleting the current >version of a file. I should abandon thinking about version control in terms of the primitive

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Storrs wrote: >Hi Miklos, > > What he means is this: let's say that you want to rename file >"foo.c" in your working copy to "bar.c", and you want the name change to >sync up in the repository, without losing any of "foo.c"'s version >history. You would

Re: CVS - setup reserved checkout

> Andrew writes: > Has anyone setup reserved checkout in CVS (ver 1.11.1p1) in Unix > (Solaris)? Or is there any documentation on this other than the > manual that comes with the source code? Given the CVS model of unreserved checkouts, why do you need reserved checkouts? Also, are you tal

Re: cvs edit -c command

The patch is available at SourceForge under project RCVS. The gist of the patch is: 1. "cvs edit -c" will abort the edit if another is editing the files. 2. "cvs edit -f" will force the edit. 3. "cvs ci -c" will abort the checkin if a valid edit does not exist on the files. Noel Does anyone

rolling back

Hey all, time for a newbie question i believe. I was curious if there was a way to roll back to a previous version utilizing cvs AND deleting the current version of a file. Everytime I try to roll back and check in a previous versioned file .. the changes are merged.. am i missing a flag of s

Re: Module directory nameing....

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryon Lape wrote: >When a user does cvs checkout foo-jsp, I would like the local directory >that gets created to just be called foo and not foo-jsp. One way is the module definition foo-jsp -d foo foo-jsp This defines a regular module called foo-jsp which

cvs edit -c command

Does anyone know where I can find some info on this command and arguments. I can't seem to find it Thanks Curt Stanton ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

cvsup question

Hi, slight offtopic, I've encountered strange entries in cvsup logfile: . Applying fixups for collection Products/cvs Fixup Products/Desktop/Comp/ScanSupport/ANALYSIS.CPP,v Fixup Products/Desktop/Comp/ScanSupport/ANALYSIS.H,v Fixup Products/Desktop/Comp/ScanSupport/BIC.LOG,v . what are

cvs exit status

I am writing some shell script that invoke cvs commands: some command appear to return always "0". For example [andrew]$ cvs update no-such-file.fig ; echo $? cvs server: nothing known about no-such-file.fig 0 My repository is remote (pserver) and my CVS version is 1.10.8. There is a m

Module directory nameing....

I have a project that is divided into two modules. One contains HTML files and the other is java and jsp code. They each live in different areas (one under the JSP server, the other under the HTML server). Let's say the project is named foo, so the directories in cvs are named as such: foo-jsp

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Re: Info-cvs digest, Vol 1 #1069 - 16 msgs

Hi, To keep the full histories and be able to reconstruct old versions of the project do the following : - Make sure no one else is accessing the repository right now. - 'cd' into the repository, find the file named "foo.c,v"cp foo.c,v bar.c,v Then from your cvs client : 1) do an update (you wi

CVS client port and proxys

Could somebody help me. Am trying to use the cvs tool (client part) from behind a proxy (running on a RedHat). The configuration of the proxy fobids me to connect (I always receive a connection timed out) to public cvs servers. Does somebody know the lines to add to the proxy configuration fil

How to handle drive letters on 'Windows

Sorry if this is a FAQ, I've skimmed the group and the FAQ and not found an answer. I'm running cvs.exe on 'Windows 98. My repository is in C:\Data Files\Repository and I want to import files from another drive. I've tried: cvs -d "C:\Data Files\Repository" import ... but keep getting a

moving a tag

>From a set of files in the repository which are tagged as Dev13, I want the tag Dev13 >to point to the latest versions of these files. (Moving the tag in CVS terminology?) >But i don't want to specify each file. I want a command to automatically find all the >files associated with a tag and m

RE: deprecated caommand in 1.11.1.1

Well, I am planning on getting comfortable with the concurrent part of it, but why not get comfortable with it using CVS seeing as there was some sort of locking feature on it already. I was simply asking if there was something like that on the newest version or if I had to start out w

Web interfaces that supports the CVSROOT/modules

I have a developer that is interested in a web interfaces that supports the CVSROOT/modules file to display the directory representation rather than the actual set of directories. Does anyone know of a interface of this nature? Rich ___ Info-cvs maili

file,t

What are and of what purpose are *,t-files? In my case they seem to be appeared when new files where created. I'm suffering from unresolved conflicts which I can't resolve, update won't work (cvs update: conflict: *file* created independently by second party) andso cvs doesn't give me any conflict

Re: [kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

Hi Miklos, What he means is this: let's say that you want to rename file "foo.c" in your working copy to "bar.c", and you want the name change to sync up in the repository, without losing any of "foo.c"'s version history. You would then do the following: - Make sure no one else is acce

Re: making binaries versioned

N> And, speaking of CVS2.0, are there any tools now out to convert N> CVS repository to SubVersioN repository? Anyone done that? AFAIK developers of SubVersion are going to implement such tools. But it is not ready yet. Anyway IMHO it is too early to migrate on SubVersion. IMHO it is not ready

Re: CVS - setup reserved checkout

The most you could hope for in CVS is to install a patch that allows advisory locks -- reserved locks are counter to the purpose of CVS. You can find a version of the patch (I think against cvs-1.11.1) at SourceForge under project RCVS. Once the patch is installed, tell the users that they must

making binaries versioned

Hi, i was wondering if it could be possible by somehow running the binary thru wrapper and encoding it on the way to the repository. Something like uuencode but more suitable. Not that I'd like to store octal dumps in CVS of the actual binaries, but similar... And, speaking of CVS2.0, are there

[kfogel@collab.net: Re: rename in cvs]

Hi info-cvs, Have you tried to rename a file and to retain the revision history? Karl suggested to cp the ,v file from the Repository. Which one? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Miklos - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: qmi@localhost Subject: Re: rename

umask

Hi i am running a pserver and i was wondering if there is anyway to get the cvs server to use a umask for when it is creating files. like umask 007 thanks James -- 11:30am up 35 days, 19:46, 12 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Re: CVS - setup reserved checkout

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:18:55AM -0700, Andrew wrote: > Has anyone setup reserved checkout in CVS (ver 1.11.1p1) in Unix > (Solaris)? Or is there any documentation on this other than the manual > that comes with the source code? Try http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ for a very good book about CVS. P

CVS - setup reserved checkout

Hello all, Has anyone setup reserved checkout in CVS (ver 1.11.1p1) in Unix (Solaris)? Or is there any documentation on this other than the manual that comes with the source code? If there is any info., please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks in advance Andrew __

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