How can I statically link CVS on Solaris 8?

2002-08-16 Thread Neis, Mark
Hi ! First, let me say that I'm fairly new to this, so bear with me should I make stupid assumptions. I'm trying to get a statically linked CVS binary on a Sparc/Solaris 8 box in order to set up a chrooted environment. So I first compiled the sources with the regular Makefile, logged the

Re: Help with tags

2002-08-16 Thread Derek Robert Price
Larry Jones wrote: Mullican, Catherine writes: All the files included in our 4.4.1.0 release are tagged v4_4_1_0 at the appropriate revision. Files modified since that time which should be included in the 4.4.1.1 release are tagged v4_4_1_1 -- but only changed files are currently tagged.

Re: Getting diffs between two revisions

2002-08-16 Thread Derek Robert Price
Johnny John wrote: Hello: Should I not be able to update my working copy of a file by doing something as follows? cvs update -j HEAD:2002-07-17 12:00 -j HEAD:2002-07-19 12:00 to get changes between July 17 and July 19 placed into my local working copy? I tried it, and nothing was

Re: CVS corruption

2002-08-16 Thread Rob Helmer
Hello, Well, I don't think salvaging by hand would be good or neccessarily effective :) Or easy, for that matter. For one, depends on the corruption, if it's a hardware or kernel VFS failure of some kind, and the blocks that the file are on are bad, then there is no salvaging it, since the

Re: Getting diffs between two revisions

2002-08-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Derek Robert Price wrote: Johnny John wrote: Hello: Should I not be able to update my working copy of a file by doing something as follows? cvs update -j HEAD:2002-07-17 12:00 -j HEAD:2002-07-19 12:00 to get changes between July 17 and July 19 placed into my local working copy?

Re: Getting diffs between two revisions

2002-08-16 Thread Derek Robert Price
Mike Ayers wrote: Derek Robert Price wrote: In other words, it's a static tag, the most recent version on the trunk, not the trunk itself as a branch. There isn't a trunk tag, but if you use dates to tag the trunk at the two times you mentioned, you should be able to get what you

Re: Getting diffs between two revisions

2002-08-16 Thread Larry Jones
Mike Ayers writes: If I am interpreting correctly, no such tags were made. Johnny wants to get changes between July 17 and July 19 placed into my local working copy, i.e. filter based solely on date of commit, which I do not believe is possible with CVS. Derek was suggesting

RE: Getting a file that was removed in repository back?

2002-08-16 Thread Albin Takami
Hi Karl and all, If I removed files using cvs (cvs rm), I see the files I removed in the Attic-dir. Now in your book (Open Source Development With CVS chapter: What Happens When You Remove A File), you mention that This means that if you want to restore a removed file, you can't just take it