online backup

2005-03-30 Thread Vijay Kumar
Hi,   We have a cvs server and right now we just take a .tar.gz of the cvsroot directory. If we restore it then the user cannot start using the restored cvs data.   I need to configure a online cvs server where both the servers are in sync and the second server should act a hot back

Re: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-03-30 Thread Antony Paul
I work on a maintenance project. There will be more than one task delivered at one time. The onsite guy will checkout the files by task, and test. If a task is OK then the working copy is tagged by task number. If any of the task is not working and it is a new file that has to be deleted in order t

Re: Editing Log Description

2005-03-30 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mary Lou RODRIGUEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I edit the log description of the objects that have already been > commited? Basically, some technical developers forgot to enter details > during commit and I want to take note of the referenc

Editing Log Description

2005-03-30 Thread Mary Lou RODRIGUEZ
Hi, How can I edit the log description of the objects that have already been commited? Basically, some technical developers forgot to enter details during commit and I want to take note of the reference ID and Description of the checked-in object for a particular revision. Please advise. I appr

RE: Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-30 Thread Yves Dorfsman
> I had suggested one group per project, but that has its own set of > difficulties: > - Each user has a default group that is used to set permissions on new > files > (I know there's supposed to be a way to configure the O/S to inherit > permissions from the parent, but our sysadmin either hasn't

Kerberos authentication

2005-03-30 Thread Nádaski Dávid
Hi,   I've installed cvs, it is working fine, but I'm having problems configuring the Kerberos authentication through gssapi.   (I believe) I've successfully compiled CVS with encryption and gssapi support, krb5 and installed a master KDC with several principals, including cvs/.   The proble

Re: Repository on shared drive of dual boot system (WinXP and Linux)

2005-03-30 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FCC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Be real here. You have a gmail account and still are playing games with the reply address? Why do you make life difficult for everyone who might want to reply to you? > Anybody has any experience with such a setup? I

Re: cvs editors funny

2005-03-30 Thread Paul Sander
No, it's not. But in your last message you seemed rather upbeat about finding the path of the workspace having been squirreled away. I'm just pointing out that you can't hope for a solution to this problem unless the workspace and repository can both agree on an identity for the workspace. C

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-30 Thread Euan Guttridge
Of course, excellent solution - and simple. Just needed to add the '-F' to apply the consolidated tag to subsequent tagged versions. cvs rtag -rbranchname consolidated-tag module cvs rtag -F -rtag1 consolidated-tag module cvs rtag -F -rtag2 consolidated-tag module cvs co -j HEAD -j consolidated-t

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-30 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: > The problem with doing that, which in fact also applies to my (bad) > suggestion, is that this will 'schedule for removal' all > files in HEAD not > in tag1. Oh, right, missed that. You still don't need the extra tags and branches though: cvs rtag -rtag1 consolidated-tag m

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-30 Thread Euan Guttridge
The problem with doing that, which in fact also applies to my (bad) suggestion, is that this will 'schedule for removal' all files in HEAD not in tag1. -Original Message- From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 March 2005 17:00 To: 'Euan Guttridge'; Jim.Hyslop; info-cvs@gnu.org

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-30 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: > I will use the consolidated tag to replace HEAD > ( cvs up -r HEAD -j HEAD -j consolidated-tag module ) That makes it even simpler. You don't need all those extra branches and merges. Just: cvs update -A (make sure you have no un-committed changes) cvs update -jHEAD -jtag1

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-30 Thread Euan Guttridge
Hi Jim I will use the consolidated tag to replace HEAD ( cvs up -r HEAD -j HEAD -j consolidated-tag module ) Euan -Original Message- From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 March 2005 16:28 To: 'Euan Guttridge'; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: Checkout's over checkouts. Euan

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-30 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: > The best I can think of using CVS is to combine branch + tag1 as tagA, > combine tagA with tag2 as tagB, combine tagB with tag3 as tagC etc.. Sorry, one question I forgot to ask - once you have this consolidated tag, what will you do with it? Will you be doing further develo

RE: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-03-30 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Antony Paul wrote: > It will become complicated to keep the list of files. Better I will > write a script to delete the file from CVS/Entries file. If this is something you are going to do on a regular basis, then sooner or later this will turn around and bite you - hard. I *strongly* recommend y

RE: cvs editors funny

2005-03-30 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Paul Sander wrote: > Be careful here. The location appears to the directory > identified by > the client at the time the edit was done. Due to network > mounts, this > path is not unique. So when editing, unediting, or > committing a file, > there's really no way to know if the workspac

Re: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-03-30 Thread Russ Sherk
Ok. That way you will only have to keep track of all the files you don't want tagged as well as all the corrisponding CVS/Entries files you are modifying. Sorry for the sarcasm. But you still need to keep track of a list of files and editing CVS/Entries sounds a bit dangerous. I'd be inclined t

Reg: Basic CVS commands

2005-03-30 Thread Balaji D
Hello All, I am a technical writer and I am asked to version control my documents and also take care of release activities. I am going through the documentation set from CVS, but still expect a few pointers. The procedures/tasks that I am held responsible are: 1. Maintain separate CVS area for

RE: Authentication Error while trying to access CVS from Eclipse.

2005-03-30 Thread Arthur Barrett
Title: Message   For questions about CVSNT please refer to the CVSNT newsgroup:news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsntorhttp://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt   Since the pserver method writes the username (including domain) into the sandbox, I think you will need to check out the sa

Re: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

2005-03-30 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, sorry for the late reply to this, but I was on vacation. Anything, I believe I might be able to contribute something to this discussion, which even resulted in some code. * On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 11:54:32PM + Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > OK, my conscience will let me carefully ign

Authentication Error while trying to access CVS from Eclipse.

2005-03-30 Thread Dey Arindam, Milton Keynes
Title: Authentication Error while trying to access CVS from Eclipse. Hi all, This issue is related to using CVS from Eclipse using PSERVER method. We could access CVS from Eclipse and things were fine ...till the point when the our DOMAIN name got changed i.e. all were migrated to different

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-30 Thread Euan Guttridge
The best I can think of using CVS is to combine branch + tag1 as tagA, combine tagA with tag2 as tagB, combine tagB with tag3 as tagC etc.. cvs co -r branchname -j branchname -j tag1 module cvs tag tagA cvs -j tagA -j tag2 module cvs tag tagB cvs -j tagB -j tag3 module cvs tag tagC .. and so on

Repository on shared drive of dual boot system (WinXP and Linux)

2005-03-30 Thread FCC
Anybody has any experience with such a setup? I have a dual boot laptop that I use for developing code, and I have experimented with CVS for some time on WinXP and on Linux, but with repositories on WinXP and on Linux respectively. I would like to use one single repository regardless of whether I

Repository on WinXP client on WinXP and Linux

2005-03-30 Thread FCC
Anybody has any experience with such a setup? I have a dual boot laptop that I use for developing code, and I have experimented with CVS for some time on WinXP and on Linux, but with repositories on WinXP and on Linux respectively. I would like to use one single repository regardless of whether I