Question About CVS

2005-02-07 Thread Jacky Cheang
Hi, How does the CVS work? I have read the documentation by Jim Blandy (https://www.cvshome.org/docs/blandy.html) but it doesn't say how the modified source code is updated into the server. Does it update to the server via HTTP or FTP connections? Our company is currently looking for a HTTP

forcing -N option

2005-02-07 Thread Xavier
Hi, I'd like to use a remote repository with local method. With the last version of wincvs, i have to use the -N option. How to force this option for all cvs commands ? Thanks ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

Which combination of CVS-Tools can be recommended in a (Windows-Linux) Client-Server environment?

2005-02-07 Thread Christian
Hi, I'm currently installing a linux-server with red-hat 9. There are a few clients that run on Windows XP or Windows 2000. Now I have to make thoughts which CVS- tool to take, because it is planned to use CVS for source control. Has someone made experience in such a client-server environment?

Re: CVS diff and unknown files.

2005-02-07 Thread Sergei Organov
Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ On Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 15:33:28 (-0800), Mark D. Baushke wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS diff and unknown files. Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes -- we are in almost full agreement, but it cannot use '-n'. (no commitinfo

RE: forcing -N option

2005-02-07 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Xavier wrote: I'd like to use a remote repository with local method. With the last version of wincvs, i have to use the -N option. How to force this option for all cvs commands ? I don't know about wincvs, but with the command-line CVS (which this mail list deals with) you just add an entry to

Re: Question About CVS

2005-02-07 Thread Larry Jones
Jacky Cheang writes: Does it update to the server via HTTP or FTP connections? No. Remote access is via a remote command facility like rsh or ssh, or a proprietary protocol (pserver). Of those, only ssh is recommended for use across the public internet. I believe the current feature release

Re: Rebuilding administrative file database taking long

2005-02-07 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The message Rebuilding administrative file database appears immediately after the commit, but the command does not complete until much later. What could cause this delay? This delay does not occur for commits in any other directory. That's because the

user permissions of files and directories

2005-02-07 Thread Matthias Friebe
Hey folks, I was unsuccessfully checking several CVS documentation for user permissions in CVS. What we want to do is give explicit read permissions to users for files/directories. By default a user should have no read or write access to files/directories unless we specify that they do. I

Re: Testing for updated files

2005-02-07 Thread russ . sherk
Bill Moseley wrote: My hope was I could do something like: cvs update do_something_with_updated_copy via cron to update a local build whenever there's a change in cvs. Anyone have a suggestion how to tell when a cvs update actually updates files in the local copy? -- Bill Moseley

Re: Making cvs not check out the root directory of your repository

2005-02-07 Thread russ . sherk
More specific to your situation; mkdir www; cvs co -d./www Project1/www This will check out module Project1/www to local direcory ./www The previous posters command will check out Project1/* to local dir. So if you had Project1/www, Project1/test, Project1/resource, you'd end up with ./www,

Re: how to rollback

2005-02-07 Thread russ . sherk
Jim: Most recent? Not sure what you mean by that. The first -j tag is the destination tag. The second is the source tag. Frank: you can read this line: cvs up -jafter -jbefore [module names] Like this: I want to update the cvs sources labeled 'after' with the changes taken from sources

How to tag a branch?

2005-02-07 Thread vik
Hi all, I have used CVS for a while in a developer(checkout-update-commit) mode,but have little experience in admin/branching stuff. Could someone please guide me in what i need to do? When our app went live, i created a branch called production-release-1-1. Our application development continued

Re: user permissions of files and directories

2005-02-07 Thread Todd Denniston
Matthias Friebe wrote: Hey folks, I was unsuccessfully checking several CVS documentation for user permissions in CVS. What we want to do is give explicit read permissions to users for files/directories. By default a user should have no read or write access to files/directories unless

Re: Testing for updated files

2005-02-07 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: grep for leading 'U' in cvs output. In the form of : U path/to/my.file And 'P', too. -Larry Jones I hate being good. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

Re: Testing for updated files

2005-02-07 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:18:26AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep for leading 'U' in cvs output. In the form of : U path/to/my.file Ah, that's easy. Thanks. cvs also writes this to stderr: cvs server: Updating . cvs server: Updating bin cvs server: Updating lib Can that be

Re: user permissions of files and directories

2005-02-07 Thread Larry Jones
Matthias Friebe writes: I was unsuccessfully checking several CVS documentation for user permissions in CVS. https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.19/cvs_2.html#SEC13 -Larry Jones How am I supposed to learn surgery if I can't dissect anything? -- Calvin

Re: how to rollback

2005-02-07 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank: you can read this line: cvs up -jafter -jbefore [module names] Like this: I want to update the cvs sources labeled 'after' with the changes taken from sources labeled 'before' [limiting the sources to be changed to module names] No. What that command

file both in the root and the Attic

2005-02-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Sevigny
Hi, How can a file, on the repository server, be both in the root ($repo/Module/file/.txt) and in the Attic ($repo/Module/Attic/file.txt) ? I'm trying to reproduce that, without success. I wonder if someone copied them directly, on the server. Regards, Jean-Pierre

Re: RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-02-07 Thread russ . sherk
Spiro: Unified diff format will not solve the posters problem of safely committing arbitrary files. It will also create more work. As Pierre stated, Nestor should implement tighter guidelines for obtaining and submitting sources. This can be difficult if dealing with 3rdparty dev-co's (or

RE: Testing for updated files

2005-02-07 Thread Matt Doar
cvs -q should do it ~Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Moseley Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:20 PM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: Re: Testing for updated files On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:18:26AM -0800, [EMAIL

tagging and branching of modules in a repository

2005-02-07 Thread Xapp
Greetings, I am currently maintaining some code in a 2 monolithic cvs repositories. A/3rdparty A/project1 A/project2 B/project3 B/project4 B/otherDir When I started working with these repositories the only builds (asside from developer's private builds) where done by tagging building all

Re: file both in the root and the Attic

2005-02-07 Thread Larry Jones
Jean-Pierre Sevigny writes: How can a file, on the repository server, be both in the root ($repo/Module/file/.txt) and in the Attic ($repo/Module/Attic/file.txt) ? It can't unless there's a bug in CVS that's never been reported or someone did it by hand. -Larry Jones The surgeon general

Re: Testing for updated files

2005-02-07 Thread Larry Jones
Bill Moseley writes: Can that be suppressed? I'd like my cron job to be quiet unless there's a problem and then mail me stderr output. ``cvs --help-options'' Pay particular attention to -q and -Q. -Larry Jones Rats. I can't tell my gum from my Silly Putty. -- Calvin

Re: file both in the root and the Attic

2005-02-07 Thread Xapp
It was probably added on a branch. Files added on a branch will appear in the root (or other branches) in the attic. Can you post the cvs log for the file? ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: How to tag a branch?

2005-02-07 Thread vik
Thanks for your reply Larry! Vik ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

CVS install Help

2005-02-07 Thread Steve
I installed CVS on box 192.168.1.5 I wanted this to be my server. I then installed CVS on a separate PC 192.168.1.10 How can I point to the X.X.X.5 machine? I setup the remote repository. I specified a hostname etc. I am not understanding what I need to do to the server side and client so I

Re: Which combination of CVS-Tools can be recommended in a (Windows-Linux) Client-Server environment?

2005-02-07 Thread Pierre Asselin
Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently installing a linux-server with red-hat 9. There are a few clients that run on Windows XP or Windows 2000. Now I have to make thoughts which CVS- tool to take, because it is planned to use CVS for source control. Has someone made experience in

Re: user permissions of files and directories

2005-02-07 Thread Pierre Asselin
Matthias Friebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was unsuccessfully checking several CVS documentation for user permissions in CVS. Larry already pointed you to the docs on cvshome.org, so start there. Note the bit about LockDir in CVSROOT/config, which is necessary if you plan to give read-only

Re: Rebuilding administrative file database taking long

2005-02-07 Thread gjschlitz
Thanks all the cvs -t tip helped me find the problem- commits in the CVSROOT directory were taking a huge amount of time when the mail command was being run to send notifications to watchers of CVSROOT. I disabled the watches on that dir and all works fine now- I'll have to look into the issue