Re: Newbie: problems adding directory to repository

2003-08-14 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:01:45PM +0200, Julien Wajsberg wrote: You have to use cvs update -dP on your server sandbox to create new directories and delete empty one in a workign directory. I've tried this, and it doesn't work: - begin included text - gossypiboma~/cvs/library/modules

Re: Howto?

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Helmer
Hello, On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:11:01PM +0300, Stephen Biggs wrote: 1. Rename a module in the repository? Is it even possible? That way, the next time somebody checks out the entire module, the directory name will have the change? I usually do this : 1) copy the module in the repository to

Re: Strange behaviour with cvs rlog and branch tag

2003-08-14 Thread Olivier Imbrechts
At 11:07 13/08/2003 +0200, you wrote: OK, so may be I do not use the right command to get what I want. All I need is to list files that will be checkout if I use the specified tag (ie the list of files that will be displayed when I checkout but without actually checkout them). That's what I

Re: How to determine the previous revision number?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:42:43PM -0400, Dickson, Craig wrote: Or alternatively is there a known algorithm, that given a CVS revision number, can determine what the previous revision number was? if the last component (the Z in 1.3.2.Z) is greater than 1 decrement it else if there are

Adding files on branch off a branch

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Herrmann
Hi All, If I create a new file on a branch of a branch, it creates a 3-digit branch (ie 1.1.2), and not 5 digit ones like all the other files which were already on the first branch and were then subsequently modified. I think this is because the simple handling of newly created files just adds a

Re: problems with a CVS authentication

2003-08-14 Thread Mark D. Baushke
ssh-agent should be setting environment variables and creating a socket for communication with ssh-add and ssh itself. If ssh-agent fails to get the environment set up so that it may communicate with ssh-add, then this is a problem you need to track down with the person who installed your OpenSSH

Re: should we branch or tag every time we add a file?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:58:09PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: If you want to get a previous release, you either need to have a tag or you need to get it by date. In either case, CVS won't include files from the future. But if you want to change that previous release (to create a patch release

Re: detect a merge

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Jones
Pedro Salazar writes: I made some merges in my project module but I didn't log with a suitable message on it saying that it was a merge from a specific branch in a specific revision. Can CVS track if specific revision was created by a merge from a branch? Or how could I know that? CVS

Re: revision macro

2003-08-14 Thread KK
Is it possible to add our own macro to the existing.Say for ex.my requirement is, file should contain the name of the person who modified it recently(this person may be different from the one who created the file) along with the file creator. Thank You very much Regards Krishna -

Re: should we branch or tag every time we add a file?

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Jones
Pedro Salazar writes: On specific time in my main branch, I decided to add a new file. Before I add the new file to the main branch, should I tag with a symbolic name or should I create a new branch where should exist the file? That's entirely up to you. For instance, if I don't add a new

CVSWeb(NT) problem on Win2K

2003-08-14 Thread Ralph Jocham
Hi, I am not sure if this is the right mailing list but I have the following problem. I installed CVSWebNT on my Win2K Server and after some playing around it did work. Now, suddenly out of the blue it does not work any more. The error message is the following (rlog is on the sys path) Error:

Using loginfo to mail commit notifications via PC and UNIX

2003-08-14 Thread Nicholas, George
Title: Using loginfo to mail commit notifications via PC and UNIX I edited the loginfo file to enable notification of commits via Unix but users of WinCVS don't trigger email notifications. Does anyone have a script that works for both Unix CVS and WinCVS. George

Repository design suggestions

2003-08-14 Thread Martyn Klassen
I'm trying to design the repository structure for a group of projects under team development and was wondering if anyone with more experience might have some recommendations for an efficient design. The projects are extensions to a commercial application and consist largely of text files

Newbie: problems adding directory to repository

2003-08-14 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I've recently started using CVS to help manage a programming project that I, and I alone, am working on, at least for now. I'm having a problem and couldn't find a solution in the docs or in the archives. My setup is that I have my CVS repository on my working server, and then a sandbox on my

problems with a unicode file

2003-08-14 Thread Tiziana Biondo
Hi All, I am using WinCvs 1.3 . I added to my repository a pdf file with the 'addunicode' optionsince the system warned me when I tried to use 'add binary'. When I checked it out Icouldn't open it because itresults corrupted, so I'vedeleted the file and added it once again forcing WinCvs

Re: how to really remove the information of the file?

2003-08-14 Thread david
When you remove a file from the repository you actually mark it as dead, and it stays in the repository.. Therefore the upcount in revision numbers. Yes. CVS has no way to distinguish between two different files with the same names and the same location in the directory structure. I think

permissions on modules

2003-08-14 Thread sbrown
Let's say I have in my repository, two modules: client1_module, client2_module. I only want my internal folks to view, commit, update, etc from client1_module. However, I want to be able to give an employee of my client2 access to and abilitity to commit, update, etc anything in client2_module.

RE: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 9, Issue 4

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Herrmann
Hi Gu, These are intermediate files used by C++ to make builds quicker that you don't need to keep in CVS. You're better off adding them to your .cvsignore file instead. HTH, Matthew Herrmann -- VB6/SQL/Java/CVS Consultancy Far Edge Technology

revision macro

2003-08-14 Thread KK
Hi all how to and where to set a macro so that the revision of the file appears inside the file. where can I get this information? Thanks in advance Regards Krishna ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: detect a merge

2003-08-14 Thread Dickson, Craig
Title: RE: detect a merge Yes the expressions are configurable. Look in your cvsgraph.conf file. -Original Message- From: William Deegan([EMAIL PROTECTED] consultant) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 11:27 AM To: Dickson, Craig Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: tools for deleting the expanded $Log$ comments

2003-08-14 Thread Zieg, Mark
Thanks for your code, I have tested we the example file I am sending to you, but it prints me the followin message: No RCS-formatted logs were found! I don't know why because I have such logs comments. It's because your log comments are in this form: begin snip //Source file:

Re: Adding files on branch off a branch

2003-08-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Matthew Herrmann wrote: Hi All, If I create a new file on a branch of a branch, it creates a 3-digit branch (ie 1.1.2), and not 5 digit ones like all the other files which were already on the first branch and were then subsequently modified. I think this is because the simple handling of

Any working informational links to convert PVCS to CVS please,thank you !

2003-08-14 Thread AdabalaP
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Re: Newbie: problems adding directory to repository

2003-08-14 Thread Julien Wajsberg
You have to use cvs update -dP on your server sandbox to create new directories and delete empty one in a workign directory. For your other problem I don't know sorry :) -- Julien I've recently started using CVS to help manage a programming project that I, and I alone, am

Re: going back to the trunk on update

2003-08-14 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Ronald Petty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did cvs update -r bra-1_0 file Now my file is on the branch. However I want to change it back to being the trunk, just the latest trunk version. I know I can look in the repository for the head version number but is there an easier way? cvs

Re: Comparing fileversions with tagged version

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Jones
Vikas K writes: I want to know what all file in a particular version are not latest. cvs rdiff -s -rtag module -Larry Jones In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs

going back to the trunk on update

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald Petty
Hi, I did cvs update -r bra-1_0 file Now my file is on the branch. However I want to change it back to being the trunk, just the latest trunk version. I know I can look in the repository for the head version number but is there an easier way? Thanks in advance Ron

tools for deleting the expanded $Log$ comments

2003-08-14 Thread David
Hello members, I would like to know if there is a tools (in perl for example) that delete all the $Log$ expanded comments. Sometimes it is usefull because your classes have revisions for a given project, but if you decide to eliminate from all your code the inserted log comments for a given new

CVS commit and breaking lock

2003-08-14 Thread Loïc Bertholet
Hi, Onthe HEAD, when a locked resource is commited, the lock is lost. If branches are made, and user puts several locks on head and branches, what is the normal behaviour of commit (on head or on branch) ? I try different case and results were not the same. Sometimes, lock is only lost

Re: Strange behaviour with cvs rlog and branch tag

2003-08-14 Thread Olivier Imbrechts
At 11:36 12/08/2003 -0400, you wrote: Olivier Imbrechts writes: When listing files tagged with a branch tag I only get directories while it works fine with simple tag. Am I missing something or is it a bug? There aren't any revisions actually on the branch yet (the root is not on the

Re: Repository design suggestions

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Priest
Martyn, I have not done anything like this myself but I think some of the information in Chapter 7, System Administration with CVS, from Open Source Development with CVS by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar might be helpful to you. A free version of the book under the GPL license can be downloaded from

Re: how to really remove the information of the file?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Priest
Just to clarify what Erik was saying you must remove the RCS file in the repository (in addition to the file in your working directory) in order to erase cvs's memory of that file. When you use cvs remove the RCS file is moved to a subdirectory of its original location named Attic so you should

RE: tools for deleting the expanded $Log$ comments

2003-08-14 Thread David
Zieg, Thanks for your code, I have tested we the example file I am sending to you, but it prints me the followin message: No RCS-formatted logs were found! I don't know why because I have such logs comments. I have tested it under: This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1

Re: Any working informational links to convert PVCS to CVS please,thank you !

2003-08-14 Thread Mark D. Baushke
There is a pvcs2rcs script in the contrib directory of any recent cvs source distribution. See also the thread: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-03/msg00248.html Older threads also exist... http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-08/msg00722.html As well as talking about

Re: Howto?

2003-08-14 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On 14 Aug 2003 16:11:01 +0300 Stephen Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Rename a module in the repository? Is it even possible? That way, the next time somebody checks out the entire module, the directory name will have the change? Just rename the dir in the repository, or play around with

CVS - Razor conversion

2003-08-14 Thread Zieg, Mark
Has anyone ever written a script to migrate a CVS repository to Razor (http://www.visible.com/Products/Razor)? I'm hashing one out in Perl, just wondering if anyone else has ever walked this path. (This post does not constitute an endorsement of Razor or a suggestion that it is a recommended

ClearCase - CVS

2003-08-14 Thread Dickson, Craig
My company currently has code in VSS, ClearCase and CVS - for various historical reasons. We are migrating towards a pure CVS solution. I have migrated the VSS code across quite easily using the vss-to-cvs.pl script. I did a quick search on Google for ClearCase to CVS migration utilities

Howto?

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Biggs
1. Rename a module in the repository? Is it even possible? That way, the next time somebody checks out the entire module, the directory name will have the change? 2. If I checkout a module from one repository, say from the Internet, and then import it into a second repository, say my local one,

Re: cvs server socket error

2003-08-14 Thread Mahantesh
Harmit Singh wrote: I have a CVS server(running on RH 8.0 intel platform) whcih has started giving me the error cvs [commit aborted]: writing to server socket: error -1. How can I stop this error put it back to normal operation. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg15165.html

cvs server socket error

2003-08-14 Thread Harmit Singh
Hi I have a CVS server(running on RH 8.0 intel platform) whcih has started giving me the error cvs [commit aborted]: writing to server socket: error -1. How can I stop this error put it back to normal operation. TIA Harmit ___ Info-cvs mailing

Re: Strange behaviour with cvs rlog and branch tag

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Jones
Olivier Imbrechts writes: When listing files tagged with a branch tag I only get directories while it works fine with simple tag. Am I missing something or is it a bug? There aren't any revisions actually on the branch yet (the root is not on the branch), which is why you're not getting any

cvswrappers question

2003-08-14 Thread Dickson, Craig
If I specify something like: *.abc -k 'b' in my cvswrappers file, will this also match a file called example.ABC, or example.Abc? ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: Newbie: problems adding directory to repository

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Biggs
Delete the CVS directory under MyDatabase in your local copy, re-add it and re-add the files under it, commit, and you should be fine. I just had this same problem. On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 16:55, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I've recently started using CVS to help manage a programming project that

How to tag by date on a branch with rtag?

2003-08-14 Thread Dickson, Craig
Title: How to tag by date on a branch with rtag? Is there a way to tag files on a branch based on a date using rtag? The script I am writing won't have access to a working copy of the branch. I tried something like: cvs rtag -D date -r branch tag module But I got an error which impled

RE: How to tag by date on a branch with rtag?

2003-08-14 Thread Dickson, Craig
Title: How to tag by date on a branch with rtag? Sorry, I found it in the archives. -Original Message-From: Dickson, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:46 PMTo: CVS List (E-mail)Subject: How to tag by date on a branch with rtag? Is there a way to tag

Re: Any working informational links to convert PVCS to CVS please,thank you !

2003-08-14 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Mark D. Baushke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a pvcs2rcs script in the contrib directory of any recent cvs source distribution. See also the thread: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-03/msg00248.html Older threads also exist...

Comparing fileversions with tagged version

2003-08-14 Thread Vikas K
Hi, I want to compare if the latest file versions in repository with the files in tagged version. Suppose I have latest version for file 'X' as 1.6 in repository and my tagged versions 'app-id-1' has file 'X' of revision 1.4. So there is diff in latest file version and tagged version.Is there

Re: Strange behaviour with cvs rlog and branch tag

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:36:42AM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: Olivier Imbrechts writes: When listing files tagged with a branch tag I only get directories while it works fine with simple tag. There aren't any revisions actually on the branch yet (the root is not on the branch), which is

RE: detect a merge

2003-08-14 Thread Dickson, Craig
Title: RE: detect a merge CvsGraph v1.4.0 has the ability to graphically show merges if you tag the branch and then the trunk (or other branch) after the merge with tag names that match particular regular expressions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

should we branch or tag every time we add a file?

2003-08-14 Thread Pedro Salazar
Greetings, On specific time in my main branch, I decided to add a new file. Before I add the new file to the main branch, should I tag with a symbolic name or should I create a new branch where should exist the file? For instance, if I don't add a new branch, I'll have to tag my module to a

Re: problems with a CVS authentication

2003-08-14 Thread S.Magesh
HI, Thanks for your reply , But ssh-add commands gives output like this Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. Is there anythingh to start?? I have started ssh-agent it started sucessfully. Pls help me to sort out this issue. S.Magesh Contentment brings happiness

Re: problems with a unicode file

2003-08-14 Thread Fabian Cenedese
I am using WinCvs 1.3 . I added to my repository a pdf file with the 'add unicode' option since the system warned me when I tried to use 'add binary'. When I checked it out I couldn't open it because it results corrupted , so I've deleted the file and added it once again forcing WinCvs to use

Re: Newbie: problems adding directory to repository

2003-08-14 Thread Wu Yongwei
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: The basic problem is that I had taken a specific program, and directory, called Book.pm and Book/ and then generalized it and renamed them to MyDatabase.pm and MyDatabase/ . In my dev sandbox, I have this directory called MyDatabase/ and there are a bunch of programs

Re: How to determine the previous revision number?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:47:06PM -0700, Paul Sander wrote: This algorithm does not consider: [lots of things] Woops, you're right! The next time I have a sneaking suspicion I might be writing beyond my knowledge ... I'll listen to it :-/ -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.

ViewCVS vs. CVSWeb with CVSNT

2003-08-14 Thread Portabill
Hello all, Which web server is better/preferred for web access to the CVS repository? ViewCVS or CVSWeb? Reasons? I hope this doesn't start a religious war. Thanks, Bill ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

history file question

2003-08-14 Thread Luis Gonzalez
Hi all´s: Needs to depurating this file by date, anyone know your design record ?. See string enclosed by quotes. F3f3006fd|rcortes|/d31/sistema/rcortes/temp.vta_carte.4gl|||temp.vta_carte .4gl Thanks in advance ... Estimados Gurúes Hispanoparlantes: