Checkin version numbers

2002-09-03 Thread Jayashree
Hi , Need a small clarification... I have a file a.c. Currently, the revision number is 1.3. If I do a checkin the revision number will become 1.4. Suppose, I want the checkin revision to be 1.7 wherein I will checkin 1.4 at a later point of time. Is this possible? If so,what should I do?? Rega

Re: CVS server process still running long after command is executed

2002-09-03 Thread Mike Ayers
Jeeva Sarma wrote: > Hi all > > I have received no replys for this question whish I > posted 2 days ago. The primary reason for that would be that you gave no information from which an answer could be derived. First, check if your server is set up so that it logs all its output - i

Re: branch access control

2002-09-03 Thread Adam Bregenzer
While it does run server side there is a CVS folder that is created. An Entries file is created with information only about files being checked in. There are no timestamps, but everything else is there. Also, the version number is the old version number, which can be especially confusing for th

Adding different files in same directory to differentrepositories...

2002-09-03 Thread simran
Hi All, I have a project whereby i package different files into different components (but the files "can" work in conjunction) so are in the same directory. However, as many developers work on their own "components" i would really like to be able to have them in different CVS repositories. e

Re: $CVS_USER won't expand in loginfo...

2002-09-03 Thread Larry Jones
Rudman, Chris writes: > > I'm using CVS v1.11 and i just can't seem to get the $CVS_USER environment > variable expanding in any of my *info files. Environment variables aren't expanded in *info files (although they are usually expanded in scripts called from *info file). > I can get $USER to e

Re: [commit aborted] cannot rename file ,xxx, to file,v: file exists

2002-09-03 Thread Larry Jones
McMurray, James writes: > > cvs.exe [commit aborted] cannot rename file ,filename, to filename,v: file > exits. ,filename, is the new RCS file -- after it's been completely written successfully, CVS renames it to filename,v, atomically replacing the existing RCS file (if any). This ensures that

Re: Strategy to merge an Rev A.a modification into Rev A, B, C ... sources

2002-09-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:28:05PM -0400, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > I have revisions A, B, and C (and D before long), of a released tarball > package (CGI-perl source). I made some widely scattered (almost 30 files > touched), but compact (almost always contained within a single-line) > revisions to

[commit aborted] cannot rename file ,xxx, to file,v: file exists

2002-09-03 Thread McMurray, James
Hello again everyone, hopefully I have nearly all of my problems ironed out. :-) I am trying to commit files on another PC and keep getting errors. It opens up the text editor just fine, and saves the comment. However, it then gives the following error: cvs.exe [commit aborted] cannot rename fil

$CVS_USER won't expand in loginfo...

2002-09-03 Thread Rudman, Chris
Hi, I'm using CVS v1.11 and i just can't seem to get the $CVS_USER environment variable expanding in any of my *info files. I'm using pserver to connect winCVS client to CVS on SunOS 5.8, and because not everybody has unix accounts i have a cvs passwd file which looks something like:- user1::cvs

RE: branch access control

2002-09-03 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 01:33 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote: > > At 01:06 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote: > > >Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods > > >mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file. Still, both > > >of these methods are client side and their success depends > > >upon soft

Re: branch access control

2002-09-03 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Hi Douglas, > From: Douglas Finkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:06:15 -0400 > > Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods > mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file. Still, both > of these methods are client side and their success depends > upon software

RE: branch access control

2002-09-03 Thread Douglas Finkle
> At 01:06 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote: > >Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods > >mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file. Still, both > >of these methods are client side and their success depends > >upon software (e.g. Perl) that may or may not be present on > >

Strategy to merge an Rev A.a modification into Rev A, B, C ... sources

2002-09-03 Thread Jeff Kowalczyk
I have revisions A, B, and C (and D before long), of a released tarball package (CGI-perl source). I made some widely scattered (almost 30 files touched), but compact (almost always contained within a single-line) revisions to revision A (cleaning up the HTML output of the CGI-perl), and I want to

RE: branch access control

2002-09-03 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 01:06 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote: >Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods >mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file. Still, both >of these methods are client side and their success depends >upon software (e.g. Perl) that may or may not be present on >client machi

RE: branch access control

2002-09-03 Thread Douglas Finkle
Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file. Still, both of these methods are client side and their success depends upon software (e.g. Perl) that may or may not be present on client machines. I've yet to see a good reason why a patch

Re: (no subject)

2002-09-03 Thread Mark D. Baushke
> From: Baris Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: (no subject) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:05:26 -0700 (PDT) > > hi,cvs doesnt pass branch information to commitinfo file,so you cant > use commitinfo for that.I had the

Re: cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up

2002-09-03 Thread Larry Jones
McMurray, James writes: > > I do currently have a Windows 2000 client and Linux server setup. Is there a > way to implement this? Of course, that's what lots of people do! > We are using Samba to communicate between the two, if that helps. No, it doesn't; in fact, it's almost certainly the roo

RE: cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up

2002-09-03 Thread McMurray, James
I do currently have a Windows 2000 client and Linux server setup. Is there a way to implement this? We are using Samba to communicate between the two, if that helps. Thanks, James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:5

Re: cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up

2002-09-03 Thread Larry Jones
McMurray, James writes: > > There is no LockDir= in the config file. In fact, the config file is still > the default one that was created at install. In that case, my second guess is that you're trying to share a working directory between DOS/Windows and Unix, which is a no-no due to the differe

RE: cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up

2002-09-03 Thread McMurray, James
There is no LockDir= in the config file. In fact, the config file is still the default one that was created at install. James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

Re: cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up

2002-09-03 Thread Larry Jones
McMurray, James writes: > > /#cvs.lock): No such file or directoryctory for `/home/my/cvs/repository > cvs commit: lock failed - giving up > cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up That error message is garbled -- my guess is that you have LockDir= in your CVSROOT/config file and it's got

cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up

2002-09-03 Thread McMurray, James
Hi everyone, I'm trying to commit files into the repository and here is the error message I get: /#cvs.lock): No such file or directoryctory for `/home/my/cvs/repository cvs commit: lock failed - giving up cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up I have previously locked the two files I tri

CVS behaviour on different platforms

2002-09-03 Thread Waleka Pawel
Good morning I would like to ask you for discussion on the following problem: CVS login: I need to run a CVS command: On windows I type the following: C:\cvs -d :pserver:olibsup:rams01@mucobet4:/ama/scm/repository/scmtest checkout . Works fine. >From another UNIX box I type the same command and

Re: (no subject)

2002-09-03 Thread Mark . Hewitt
I'd come to that belief too, but I was hoping otherwise!Thanks for the URL - I'll see where that gets me.#!/mjh-Baris Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: Baris Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: 09/03/2002 12:05PMcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: (no subject)hi,cvs does

Re: (no subject)

2002-09-03 Thread Baris Sahin
hi, cvs doesnt pass branch information to commitinfo file, so you cant use commitinfo for that. I had the same problem, and then solved with writing a patch for access control. Available at http://www.geocities.com/barissahin/ baris --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  A simple question. Can I disc

(no subject)

2002-09-03 Thread Mark . Hewitt
 A simple question. Can I discover on which branch a file is being committed from withina script run from the commitinfo file? Basically, I know how to apply per user/module access controls, but I would like to extend this to include branch information so that certain teams are confinedto branches.