CVS into ClearCase synchronization

Hello, we currently use ClearCase, but we are not satisfied with it, and would like to move to CVS. However, our management prefers ClearCase, so the only solution that has some chance, is that we use CVS for the daily work, but periodically synchronize the ClearCase repository with CVS. We have

CVS and Excel

Title: CVS and Excel I have a colleague who wants to derive some code development tracking metrics for our CVS hosted products. This needs to be done using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a relatively automatic way. What he would like is to be able to execute CVS commands, or use some

Re: CVS and Excel

Mark Hewitt wrote: I have a colleague who wants to derive some code development tracking metrics for our CVS hosted products. This needs to be done using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a relatively automatic way. How complicated is the spreadsheet? It could be generated via script as a

Deleting a Branch Tag

We created a branch of of the main trunk (HEAD) but would like to recreated it again off of a later version of the trunk. Is there a way to delete the branch and recreate it or must we create a new branch with a new somewhat different name? -- Jake Colman Principia

Re: CVS and Excel

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Mark Hewitt wrote: be done using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a relatively automatic way. What he would like is to be able to execute CVS commands, or use some DLL or ActiveX type functionality from a Excel VBA to get information back to the spreadsheet. Has

Restoring deleted files

Hello everyone, How can I restore a file deleted from CVS? I did a 'cvs update -r 1.1' (1.1 was the file's version when it was removed) and I get the sticky tag 1.1. When I do 'cvs update -A' , as indicated by the cvs FAQ to get rid of the sticky tag, I lose the file. What should I do? Thank

RE: CVS and Excel

Title: RE: CVS and Excel Matt, I think 'very' is the word we are looking for here! It has embedded buttons and events that go and get the latest values and perform all manner of HTML publication, manager and QA notification by email, graph plotting and enquiries to other tools providing

Re: CVS and Excel

Mark Hewitt wrote: I have a colleague who wants to derive some code development tracking metrics for our CVS hosted products. This needs to be done using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a relatively automatic way. How complicated is the spreadsheet? It could be generated

RE: Deleting a Branch Tag

Do you really want to delete the old branch? Might there not be revisions on it you want to keep? In the cause of safety it may be better to rename the old branch, then create the new one using a variation on the following $ cvs admin -nRENAMED-BRANCH:BRANCH file $ cvs

CVS server and WinCVS

In my department we have a problem using WinCVS with a pserver under Solaris. Images, which have to be checked out, are always empty! Does anybody know something about this? Greetings, -- Felix Moedritscher| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student of Telematics |

Re: Log INFO

Alex Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How would I see the cvs log info for a file from one tagged version to the next. I am trying to find bug defects fixed between loads. $ cvs log -rrev1:rev2 file Also, you should *really* look at rcs2log , in the contrib directory, or at cvs2cl.pl, at

Re: Deleting a Branch Tag

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jake Colman wrote: We created a branch of of the main trunk (HEAD) but would like to recreated it again off of a later version of the trunk. Is there a way to delete the branch and recreate it or must we create a new branch with a new somewhat different name? If

Re: NewbieQ: What is wrong with this server config

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Roger Glover writes: I have read the troubleshooting section of Cedarqvist's manual It would have been nice to tell us what happend when you followed the debugging advice given there. CVS 1.10.6 I seem

Re: Question about LockDir

Reinstein, Shlomo writes: But I have a problem with that: CVS versions 1.9 and older do not support the LockDir option (as written in the Cederqvist), and therefore if two different developers use different versions of CVS, e.g., one developer uses CVS 1.9, and the other uses CVS 1.11,

Re: What could go wrong with this scenario?

Philip Lijnzaad writes: ...probably need to set the set-group-id (SGID) bit on the directories in your repository (chmod g+s) -- that usually makes newly-created files and directories get their gid from the parent directory instead of from the creating process on systems where that

Re: Restoring deleted files

Dan Moinescu writes: How can I restore a file deleted from CVS? I did a 'cvs update -r 1.1' (1.1 was the file's version when it was removed) and I get the sticky tag 1.1. When I do 'cvs update -A' , as indicated by the cvs FAQ to get rid of the sticky tag, I lose the file. What should I

Re: CVS server and WinCVS

Felix Moedritscher writes: In my department we have a problem using WinCVS with a pserver under Solaris. Images, which have to be checked out, are always empty! Does anybody know something about this? Are the images properly marked as being binary files in the repository? -Larry Jones I

Q: documentation for VSS internal formats somewhere?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have some documentation how the MS VSS program stores its files on the remote file server? - -- Heiko Nardmann (Dipl.-Ing.), [EMAIL PROTECTED], Software Development secunet Security Networks AG - Sicherheit in Netzwerken