Re: Group permissions to branches

2002-05-02 Thread Brian Poynor
>directory for lock files, specially in this case. > > Regards, > shakeel > > > Brian Poynor wrote: > > >You can't really do this with the CVSROOT/passwd file. But if you are > >primarily concerned about who can commit to Branch A and Branch B (as > &

Re: cvs commit problem

2002-04-10 Thread Brian Poynor
It is a permission problem on the server side, though it isn't completely clear without more investigation what it is. If you don't mind a little nitty-gritty, you can figure out exactly what is happening by tracing your cvs pserver. What I do is open a second port on the server as follows (you c

Re: Strange message from CVS...

2002-04-09 Thread Brian Poynor
Note that if you work with *big* CVS trees, deleting the val-tags file can make checkouts based on tags (including branch tags) take a long time. (By big I mean hundreds of directories, thousands of files.) We've found that adding new tags to val-tags before running checkouts or merges using them

Re: Group permissions to branches

2002-04-09 Thread Brian Poynor
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:19:58PM -0400, Danial Islam wrote: > Thanks a lot for the reply. Yes, I did notice the CVS/Tag file before, and I > wrote a simple shell script with commitinfo and checkoutlist. But you are > right that CVS/Entries should be checked instead. I don't know how to do > t

Re: Group permissions to branches

2002-04-09 Thread Brian Poynor
You can't really do this with the CVSROOT/passwd file. But if you are primarily concerned about who can commit to Branch A and Branch B (as opposed to checkout), you can implement that using CVSROOT/commitinfo. (I answered a similar request earlier, and discounted the option of using an alternate

Re: problem with pserver

2002-04-09 Thread Brian Poynor
Are you sure you restarted xinetd? It usually restarts with SIGUSR2, but check the man page for your specific version. If xinetd isn't opening the port, it should print or log an error message when it restarts--watch for that. Knowing which OS/version you're using might help one of us pinpoint t

Re: Backtracking on Branch? Please Help!

2002-04-08 Thread Brian Poynor
Can you checkout your branch at the specific date, tag it, and use that tag to backtrack the branch? e.g. cvs co -r -j -j ... -Brian On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:16:15AM +1200, Brian Sharpe wrote: > Hi You Guys. > > Does anyone know how I can backtrack to a date on a branch? > > I'm in a pic

Re: PROPOSAL: Addressing the list's spam issue: was: [GB2312] ±ÜÃâåeÎóµÄÍâÙQÐÐäN·½Ê

2002-04-08 Thread Brian Poynor
Another in favor. -Brian On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:00:47PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Les Bell wrote: > > > Before moderation, how about the simpler step of simply denying all posts > > by non-members? I can see no legitimate reason why a CVS user would want to > > post to

Re: HOwdo I restrict access to different directories within one repository?

2002-04-05 Thread Brian Poynor
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:58:02PM -, vishalvenkatram wrote: > We are in the process of implementing Win CVS here. > I have been able to create a repository and am in the process of > creating directory structure within the repository. > I wish to give users selective rights on some of the di

Re: Modify administrative files upon commit

2002-04-05 Thread Brian Poynor
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Stefano Costa wrote: > On 5 Apr 2002 at 4:02, Brian Poynor wrote: > > > Files keep their execute flags when initially committed to the CVS > > repository--that's the easiest way. > > > > Thanks Brian, good suggestion

Re: partial update

2002-04-01 Thread Brian Poynor
Think you mean cvs update -l cvs --help update -Brian On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:59:46AM +0530, Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote: > cvs -l update > > Shubho > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of Max > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:47