ANN: CVSROOT/passwd file editor

2005-03-02 Thread Thomas Maier
Hi all, in contrib/README.gz I have found the paragraph --- If you have some software that works with CVS that you wish to offer it is suggested that you make it available by FTP or HTTP and then announce it on the info-cvs mailing list. --- So I have written some such software and post to this

Re: Any plan for file level CVS ACL in near feature?

2005-03-02 Thread Tushar
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:44, Peter Connolly wrote: The 'cvs_acls' script in the 'contrib' directory: https://ccvs.cvshome.org/source/browse/ccvs/contrib/ already supports file-level as well as directory-level access control. Since this is one of the 'commitinfo' scripts triggered at

Re: Long version numbers | Tedious to keep track

2005-03-02 Thread Swaroop George
We use version numbers extensively to inform the client infrastructure point of contact about the particular version of file going in during a particular release. Hence these version numbers form the core part of any communication. We already have a tagging/ branching system in place. - Swaroop

cvs server

2005-03-02 Thread Gleidson Sá Barreto
This hardware profile ( celeron 1,7 GHz; 240 MB Ram)is ideal for server cvs? ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Instale o discador do Yahoo! agora. http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ - Internet rápida e grátis

linux distribution

2005-03-02 Thread Gleidson Sá Barreto
which better linux distribution for server cvs? ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Instale o discador do Yahoo! agora. http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ - Internet rápida e grátis

RE: Long version numbers | Tedious to keep track

2005-03-02 Thread Mark Priest
Swaroop, It is not clear from your message why you need to use the rcs version numbers. If you are already using tags then you seem to have missed the point of why they are useful. I can't imagine a reason why you couldn't just tell somebody the tag name and have that be good enough. Maybe I

RE: 'No such file or directoryctory' [sic] error

2005-03-02 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Alex Hunsley wrote: I can't find a way to change the default line ending in cygwin once it's already installed (via the update) - AFAIK you only get offered the option on first install... (I'm sure I could find out how to change that though...) mount -t will force it into text mode. Or,

RE: Long version numbers | Tedious to keep track

2005-03-02 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Swaroop George wrote: I am experiencing a peculiar problem. Ours is a huge project and had multiple enhancement versions going in since live. Inaddition, we have monthly maintenance release as well as patch releases on an as needed basis. All this led us creating multiple branches to the code

Re: Long version numbers | Tedious to keep track

2005-03-02 Thread Xapp
If I am not mistaken, you are trying to use the rcs version numbers as file version numbers (in windows you can see this info by right click-properties-details). The number should not be the same as rcs version numbers because they where not designed (as you can see) to be used externally. The

RE: cvs server

2005-03-02 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Gleidson Sá Barreto wrote: This hardware profile ( celeron 1,7 GHz; 240 MB Ram)is ideal for server cvs? How big is the hard drive? Let me rephrase that - just make sure the disk space is enough to hold what you need. How many users do you have? How many of them will be trying to access the

RE: Can CVS run batch files?

2005-03-02 Thread Jim.Hyslop
harry wrote: I want to send a batch file via CVS and have CVS run it after it has been downloaded to the client on the clients machine. Is it possible to issue a command in CVS to run batch files or executables? No. This is a two-edged sword - it would be a useful feature to have (IIRC PVCS

Re: Long version numbers | Tedious to keep track

2005-03-02 Thread Todd Denniston
Jim.Hyslop wrote: Swaroop George wrote: SNIP - Is there anyway of alternate versioning and making it much more simple, but still maintaining the history to an extent. I'm almost certain your branching and versioning strategy can be simplified. It's been my experience that when people

ANN: CVSROOT/passwd file editor

2005-03-02 Thread Francois Legrand
I released recently a web tool which allows to add/modify passwords in CVS. all informations here: http://cvsacls.planck.fr/ Cheers Francois ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: Any plan for file level CVS ACL in near feature?

2005-03-02 Thread Francois Legrand
I tried to use the cvs-RACL patch to CVS !!! And I was really not satisfied... I suspect that it's quite buggy ! Thus we decided to use the cvs-acls contrib which works perfectly. If you are interrested, I released a web tool to administrate easily the rights without having to edit manually the

RE: making cvs repository online using IIS

2005-03-02 Thread Jason Sicotte
You may also want to consider CVS for IIS. THE STEPS to install it on IIS are available ON their SourceForge SITE: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=18720group_id=88210 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark D.

Re: Any plan for file level CVS ACL in near feature?

2005-03-02 Thread Peter Connolly
Afaik, there is no way to restrict checkouts. On 02 Mar 2005 12:41:48 +0530, Tushar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:44, Peter Connolly wrote: The 'cvs_acls' script in the 'contrib' directory: https://ccvs.cvshome.org/source/browse/ccvs/contrib/ already supports

Re: Long version numbers | Tedious to keep track

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Sander
One of the problems with using tags is that developers can and sometimes do move them around. This was a serious concern for me at one time, and it's one of the reasons why my preferred change control and build audit methods pass around lists of file names and version numbers. If this is of

Again: multiple vendors (was: Re: Long version numbers | Tedious to keep track)

2005-03-02 Thread Baurzhan Ismagulov
Hi, I see an interesting discussion about branching. I've posted a similar question (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2005-02/msg00284.html) a couple of weeks ago, but received no answer. I skimmed through the mentioned branching guide; it's very useful, but I'm not sure how to apply

re-entering comments: admin -m

2005-03-02 Thread GuyBrush Treepwood
At http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/cvs-1.10-to/cvsbook/main_78.html it is stated: Invoking admin -m actually changes the project's history, so use it with care. There will be no record that the log message was ever changed -- it will simply appear as if that revision had been originally

RE: re-entering comments: admin -m

2005-03-02 Thread Jim.Hyslop
GuyBrush Treepwood wrote: At http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/cvs-1.10-to/cvsbook/main_78.html it is stated: ... Although its name might seem to imply that only the designated CVS administrator can use it, in fact anyone can run cvs admin, as long as they have write access to the project in

CVS server for Win 2000?

2005-03-02 Thread alexx
This may seem a silly question. But I can't seem to find one. Unfortunately, I don't have access to any linux boxes where I currently am. :( If I want a CVS server, I need to put it on a Win 2k box. :-P Thank you! ___ Info-cvs mailing list

RE: CVS server for Win 2000?

2005-03-02 Thread Jim.Hyslop
alexx wrote: This may seem a silly question. But I can't seem to find one. Unfortunately, I don't have access to any linux boxes where I currently am. :( If I want a CVS server, I need to put it on a Win 2k box. :-P So, what exactly is your question? You never did ask it, you know. :=P

Re: Any plan for file level CVS ACL in near feature?

2005-03-02 Thread Tushar
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:03, Francois Legrand wrote: I tried to use the cvs-RACL patch to CVS !!! And I was really not satisfied... I suspect that it's quite buggy ! Thus we decided to use the cvs-acls contrib which works perfectly. If you are interrested, I released a web tool to