Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Xanana Gusmao
I am compiling a short list of best practise for CVS usage especially for someone who's is the build engineer. Assuming that the source tree compiles and passes all tests and is basically ready to be deployed to production, I am recommneding that: Before any public release of the software, you

AW: Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Guus Leeuw jr.
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Xanana Gusmao Gesendet: donderdag 7 oktober 2004 8:50 Betreff: Best practise with tagging Before any public release of the software, you must tag the module. I would suggest Before any

RE: Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Paras jain
There is already a document published for CVS best practices(look at that also, good one): http://www.magic-cauldron.com/cm/cvs-bestpractices/ Best Regards Paras -Original Message- From: Xanana Gusmao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Urgent help needed: recover lots of files from Attic

2004-10-07 Thread Fabian Cenedese
I've accidentally removed a whole source tree, which contains 500 source code files (plain text only, no binary). I searched the web, and found ways to recover files from Attic one by one, namely: - use cvs admin -o 1.x (deleted file), or - use cvs update -j 1.x -j 1.y (deleted file) both

Re: AW: Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Xanana Gusmao
Guus, I would suggest Before any ... You must branch the module with a release tag Yes that makes sense. Code release should come from a branch which is the stable version of everything from HEAD. That branch should be tagged. The next question: In a tagged branch, is it advisable to retag it

cvs lock ..

2004-10-07 Thread Gurpreet Singh (SCM)
Hi All, I am facing a strange behavior related to any of the cvs operation (co / update / rtag) on a repository some time. The cvs oparation stops (say a tag task) and waits for the lock. It gives a message waiting for sys_user's lock at CVS_File_Path The tag process stucks in-between till

What is CVSNT?

2004-10-07 Thread Alastair Growcott
Title: Re: cvs client Can someone just give me a very brief description of CVSNT? From the name it sounds like a Windows NT CVS client, yet if so why does it compile on Linux, etc. etc.? Is it an executable that TortoiseCVS runs with a system call, or a library? Since it is open source,

RE: Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Alastair Growcott
Title: AW: Best practise with tagging Err - you don't want to branch every release, just major releases. Minor releases presumably do not involve any major changes in functionality. Here at my company we tag every potentially public release (even though testing often means they never get

Re: What is CVSNT?

2004-10-07 Thread Slawomir Nowaczyk
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:32:15 +0100 Alastair Growcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Can someone just give me a very brief description of CVSNT? Most certainly: http://www.google.com Also, this has been discussed on this list recently, so you may want to take a look here:

client

2004-10-07 Thread Gleidson S Barreto
Tortoise cvs is combined in windows to explorer. E excessively clints, since they are not combined to windows to explorer, as it occurs? ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador

RE: Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Guus Leeuw jr. wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before any public release of the software, you must tag the module. I would suggest Before any ... You must branch the module with a release tag I disagree. Branches can be very complex to manage. I

RE: Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Xanana Gusmao wrote: I am compiling a short list of best practise for CVS usage especially for someone who's is the build engineer. Assuming that the source tree compiles and passes all tests and is basically ready to be deployed to production, I am recommneding that: Before any

AW: AW: Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Guus Leeuw jr.
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Xanana Gusmao Gesendet: donderdag 7 oktober 2004 10:52 Betreff: Re: AW: Best practise with tagging Guus, I would suggest Before any ... You must branch the module with a release tag

AW: Best practise with tagging

2004-10-07 Thread Guus Leeuw jr.
Von: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Guus Leeuw jr. wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before any public release of the software, you must tag the module. I would suggest Before any ... You must branch the module with a release tag I

AW: cvs lock ..

2004-10-07 Thread Guus Leeuw jr.
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Gurpreet Singh (SCM) Gesendet: donderdag 7 oktober 2004 11:06 Betreff: cvs lock .. It gives a message waiting for sys_user's lock at CVS_File_Path I've seen this only happening when

RE: cvs lock ..

2004-10-07 Thread Gurpreet Singh (SCM)
So what workaround can there be to check this !! Regards Gurpreet S -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Gurpreet Singh (SCM) Gesendet: donderdag 7 oktober 2004 11:06 Betreff: cvs lock .. It gives a message waiting for

branch/tag short questions

2004-10-07 Thread Richard Pfeiffer
Three short questions: We have dev grp that labeled a tag the same as the branch. Now they can't get to the branch. 1) Is their a way we can rename the tag? 2) Will the branch then be available? 3) or would it be simpler to restore the repository from backup? Thx! -R Do you

Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread Chris Weiss
I've got one client who is having trouble connecting to our CVS server. I'm trying to troubleshoot the problem, but am not having much luck. Our setup is CVS server 1.11.5, client 1.11.1.3, we're connecting via SSH tunnel. We've got the keys syncronized, so the client doesn't need to enter a

Re: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread J. David Boyd
Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got one client who is having trouble connecting to our CVS server. I'm trying to troubleshoot the problem, but am not having much luck. Our setup is CVS server 1.11.5, client 1.11.1.3, we're connecting via SSH tunnel. We've got the keys

Re: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread Chris Weiss
J. David Boyd wrote: Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got one client who is having trouble connecting to our CVS server. I'm trying to troubleshoot the problem, but am not having much luck. Our setup is CVS server 1.11.5, client 1.11.1.3, we're connecting via SSH tunnel. We've got the

Re: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread ai26
In a message of Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:24:49 -0700 Received on Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:33:14 +0200 Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to J. David Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] J. David Boyd wrote: Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got one client who is having trouble connecting to our CVS

Re: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread J. David Boyd
Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J. David Boyd wrote: Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got one client who is having trouble connecting to our CVS server. I'm trying to troubleshoot the problem, but am not having much luck. Our setup is CVS server 1.11.5, client

Re: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread Chris Weiss
J. David Boyd wrote: Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J. David Boyd wrote: Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got one client who is having trouble connecting to our CVS server. I'm trying to troubleshoot the problem, but am not having much luck. Our setup is CVS server

Re: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread Chris Weiss
Chris Weiss wrote: J. David Boyd wrote: Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J. David Boyd wrote: Chris Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got one client who is having trouble connecting to our CVS server. I'm trying to troubleshoot the problem, but am not having much luck. Our

AW: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread Guus Leeuw jr.
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Chris Weiss FYI - the output of -t update is (the user/servernames have been changed to protect the innocent): C:\c:\Program Files\gnu\WinCvs 1.3\cvs -z9 -t update - main loop with

No conflits but no importing at all!

2004-10-07 Thread emammendes
Hello I am trying to cvs import via ssh to another computer . The command returns the message No conflits which is good but doesn't import anything. What is wrong? cvs ci -m First import to my laptop chap2 eduardo start Many thanks Ed ___

Re: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread Chris Weiss
Larry Jones wrote: Chris Weiss writes: C:\c:\Program Files\gnu\WinCvs 1.3\cvs -z9 -t update - main loop with CVSROOT=username@cvs.servername.com:/usr/local/cvsroot And that's it... it'll sit until we ctrl-C out of it... Get rid of the -z9 -- there were some interoperability problems

RE: AW: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

2004-10-07 Thread ai26
In a message of Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:15:31 +0200 Received on Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:20:56 +0200 Guus Leeuw jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to: 'Chris Weiss' [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Chris Weiss FYI - the

AW: No conflits but no importing at all!

2004-10-07 Thread Guus Leeuw jr.
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von [EMAIL PROTECTED] cvs ci -m First import to my laptop chap2 eduardo start This is a check-in, not an import... Weird that is says No conflicts though. What have you done before that (give us the output of 'ls'), and what is

RE: cvs lock ..

2004-10-07 Thread Gurpreet Singh (SCM)
Hi, That's fine for now, that for the lock directory where these are being created. But I am looking for a work-around which can identify (how?) between a live cvs-client process and a *dead*/stale cvs-client process or else atleast an assumption that the pids lasting since say a given amount of

Re: What is CVSNT?

2004-10-07 Thread Arthur Barrett
Re: cvs clientAlastair, CVSNT is a modern, feature rich implementation of CVS server and client. It is licensed under the GPL (free) and is currently available for Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X. Most windows GUI's use CVSNT to perform the work. CVSNT is not a DLL but an EXE (in windows

Re: problems with Visual C# projects

2004-10-07 Thread Arthur Barrett
Naveen, WinCVS has it's own newsgroup and uses CVSNT as it's default client. I suggest you ask this question on the CVSNT newsgroup or the WinCVS newsgroup. WinCVS newsgroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/cvsgui The best place to ask about CVSNT is the newsgroup for CVSNT (or search the