users of mcvs?

2002-10-24 Thread Matthew Herrmann
hi all, just wanting to find out how many people are using mcvs and what their experiences have been? i'm considering using it and wanted to get a feel for whether there is any community for it. cvs has many flaws, but they are overcome in large part by the community activity on this newsgroup.

RE: using cvs to contol system files

2002-10-24 Thread Hauke Fath
Am 23.10.2002 um 19:05 Uhr -0400 schrub Greg A. Woods: RCS is simple to use and gives you version control with few commands to know. I concur 100% I have in the past devised procedures and processes to use CVS to manage system configurations (which ended up having to be much more complex

Re: How to set CVS be the reserved checkout mode only?

2002-10-24 Thread Noel Yap
--- LIU,SHI-ZHOU (HP-China,ex2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CVS server version:1.11.2 on HP-UX 11i CVS client: Win CVS 1.3.8.1 on Win2K I'd upgrade the client to be able to take advantage of some newer commands (eg cvs edit). How to set CVS be the reserved checkout mode only? I mean that if

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:15:30AM -0400, James Hughes wrote: Nick Patavalis wrote: What tags exist, listed in chronological order? What are the names of the tags corresponding to vendor-branch imports, in chronological order? What tags exist in a specific branch? cvs

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread James Hughes
Nick Patavalis wrote: Is there any way to get, via a script of something, information about the tags in a CVS-controlled tree? I want for example to answer the questions like the following: What tags exist, listed in chronological order? What are the names of the tags corresponding to

RE: Have CVS perform actions on all files before checking in?

2002-10-24 Thread Zieg, Mark
Is it possible to have CVS perform some type of action on types of files before checking it in? I'd like to configure our server for all java and C++ code to do some nicetys, like strip out ^M's and replace bloody tabs with spaces where people put them in. Rather than having the

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Todd Denniston
Nick Patavalis wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:15:30AM -0400, James Hughes wrote: Nick Patavalis wrote: What tags exist, listed in chronological order? What are the names of the tags corresponding to vendor-branch imports, in chronological order? What tags exist in

Re: Set lock to strict

2002-10-24 Thread Noel Yap
--- Alejandro_Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ppl, I need to set strict locking on my repository... Why? Are you able to use the advisory locks patch available at SourceForge under project RCVS? Noel __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the

RE: using cvs to contol system files

2002-10-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 11:48:26 (+0200), Hauke Fath wrote: ] Subject: RE: using cvs to contol system files Am 23.10.2002 um 19:05 Uhr -0400 schrub Greg A. Woods: RCS is simple to use and gives you version control with few commands to know. I concur 100% I have in the

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:10:30AM -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: Nick Patavalis wrote: Take for instance this very real example (my source-tree is a linux-kernel): cvs status -v Makefile === File: Makefile

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Larry Jones
Nick Patavalis wrote: What tags exist, listed in chronological order? What are the names of the tags corresponding to vendor-branch imports, in chronological order? What tags exist in a specific branch? Your questions are mostly unanswerable. Tags are tags -- CVS keeps no record of

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:24:41AM -0700, Johnson, Susan wrote: Nick, I would need a tool like that too. People have pointed me to winCVS (windows tools) but I really want a command-line-based output. Looking arround I found a very interesting little perl program. I's called cvs-exp, its

Re: How to set CVS be the reserved checkout mode only?

2002-10-24 Thread Kaz Kylheku
LIU,SHI-ZHOU (HP-China,ex2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi there, CVS server version:1.11.2 on HP-UX 11i CVS client: Win CVS 1.3.8.1 on Win2K How to set CVS be the reserved checkout mode only? I mean that if one checkout a file and edit it, before he/she

Set lock to strict

2002-10-24 Thread Alejandro Gómez
Ppl, I need to set strict locking on my repository... I´ve added -I option on the line invoking cvs on xinetd.conf... That´s right? Is this enogh? TIA Alejandro Gómez IT Services Lempert S.A. Donaciano del Campillo 2068 Cerro de las Rosas (X 5009 JRZ) Córdoba - Argentina

Re: Have CVS perform actions on all files before checking in?

2002-10-24 Thread Larry Jones
Schoep, Grant @ STORM writes: Is it possible to have CVS perform some type of action on types of files before checking it in? One used to be able to use -t/-f wrappers to do that, but they never quite worked right and no one has gotten around to fixing them, so they've been disabled for quit

Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-24 Thread David R. Chase
Hello there, Searched some of the archives but came up empty. I don't think it's supported, but I'm mainly asking to see if this will ever be implemented in the future. Basically, I'm wondering if there's any way to limit read/write access to a repository on a modular level, that is, some users

RE: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-24 Thread Zieg, Mark
If not, and I wanted to write a patch to add this feature, what would be the best way to do it? My two bits...move CVSROOT and all its contents into normalized SQL tables. Not a trivial patch, but it would open up whole new doors for manipulating, querying, and accessing the repository (not to

RE: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Zieg, Mark
From: Nick Patavalis [mailto:npat;inaccessnetworks.com] Looking arround I found a very interesting little perl program. It's called cvs-exp, it's written by Sitaram Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED], and can be found at: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/code/cvs-exp/ That is cool. Thank you for

Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-24 Thread Larry Jones
David R. Chase writes: Basically, I'm wondering if there's any way to limit read/write access to a repository on a modular level, that is, some users mapped in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd will have read or write access to some modules, while other users will have it for others. I'm mainly