RE: Won't let me cvs commit config

2005-04-26 Thread Jim.Hyslop
twoeyedhuman wrote: When I tried to cvs edit config, nothing showed up, That is normal. and when I tried to cvs commit config it said root is not allowed to edit files. Does anyone know what's wrong? Like it said - you aren't allowed to check in things as root. Log in as yourself and

RE: I managed to start up CVS, is it now ready to work across the internet?

2005-04-25 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Alex v.Below wrote: Anonymous access via pserver is a bit more complicated, but well documented too. Note that pserver is the least secure protocol available, and should definitely *not* be used if the repository is to be accessed from the Internet. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer

RE: Hack to remove empty dir from CVS repository

2005-04-25 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Thomas Phelan wrote: [...] So, is it ok for me to just do the following? $ cd $CVSROOT $ rmdir DataProvider Yes, that's what you need to do. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (

RE: Spaces in file and directory names (was: Alias syntax for a m odule that has a space in its name)

2005-04-22 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Stephen Carville wrote: No. I am reminding you that new tools sometimes require learning new ways. Sometimes. In the example you cited, the technology simply didn't exist to allow automobiles to be controlled using reins. The computing tools of the 20th century required you to use short file

RE: OT - Spaces in file and directory names (was: Alias syntax fo r a m odule that has a space in its name)

2005-04-22 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Bulgrien, Kevin wrote: It is easy to tell everyone else what they ought to do in hind-sight. Nobody's doing that. I clearly acknowledged that *when these applications were written*, handling spaces was extremely difficult to do. I'm not denegrating the years of hard work that went into various

RE: Cross merging

2005-04-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Erik Andersson wrote: Anyone who tell me about or point me to any good information about cross branching? Is cross branching on a regular basis a risk or is it straightforward and only to keep track of what's merged where etc. What do you mean by cross branching? I have some guesses, but

RE: checking out multiple branches of a project

2005-04-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Chris Cheshire wrote: I have a project in source control called mylib (for example) that contains libraries used for my various programs. Currently I need to make some changes to a development branch, as well as some changes to the head. I have been deleting one, checking out the other,

RE: cvs add-ing large source tree

2005-04-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Jate Sujjavanich wrote: I am having trouble cvs add-ing a very large source tree (500mb). I take the following steps: 1) create a blank module by importing an empty directory 2) check out the empty module into my source root 3) do a find . /( -type d -name CVS -prune \) -o \( -type d \) |

RE: checking out multiple branches of a project

2005-04-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Doug Lee wrote: I have often wished for an automatic way to check out all existing branches of a given module with one command. Example: If I have module mymod with HEAD and branches named rel1 and rel2: mkdir cvs_co cd cvs_co cvs co -b mymod cd mymod ls # would list HEAD (or head),

RE: checking out multiple branches of a project

2005-04-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Russ Sherk wrote: On 4/21/05, Jim.Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, piece of cake. Check out [sic] the -d option to the checkout command. To be clear: [etc]. I was _trying_ to encourage Chris to study the manual so he'd be more familiar with the options. Oh, well :-) -- Jim Hyslop

RE: cvs add-ing large source tree

2005-04-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Jate Sujjavanich wrote: The simple cvs commit doesn't work for me. It errors out with a Protocol error: too many arguments. Hence my current solution to break it up with finds. Ah, I see. How many files are you dealing with? If you're having difficulties just adding the modules, you are

RE: Alias syntax for a module that has a space in its name

2005-04-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Todd Denniston wrote: [1] IMNSHO, spaces in file and directory names are one of the many evils in computers, remove them when possible and re-educate the creators (as much as you are allowed :). Well, at the risk of starting up a jihad, I'd disagree with that statement. Computers are no

RE: Alias syntax for a module that has a space in its name

2005-04-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Stephen Carville wrote: Jim.Hyslop wrote: Tools should conform to the way people use them. Not the other way around. Automobiles never should have forced people to adapt to using a wheel when everyone already knew how to use reins

RE: Disable cvs commands for users ?

2005-04-20 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Maik Walter wrote: it's possible to block/disable single cvs commands for several users ? We use pserver-access and it would be nice (better :-)) that some users cannot tagging or create branches. First of all, do you really need to block tagging? Creating tags and branches is pretty

RE: How do we get in touch with the list owners?

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
mgrd wrote: Jim.Hyslop wrote: [..] Who's minding the store? How do we get in touch with them? More to the point, how do we get rid of [EMAIL PROTECTED] from this list? I'm getting really annoyed with all the bounce messages I get from the server saying No such user in German

RE: updating Entries files only

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Steve Sapovits wrote: I think I asked this before, but I can't find it: Is there a way to update just the CVS/Entries files so they reflect the current directory structure that's checked in? Sure. Just issue a 'cvs update -d' command. That will retrieve any new files and directories. As a

RE: Installing CVs on Windows or Unix. Which one is better?

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Ritesh_Srivastava wrote: I need to install CVS for our software development. At the same time, a team sitting across globe would also be using the same CVS server for version control Under the circumstances, will it be good to install CVS on Windows or UNIX? What are the pros and cons

RE: updating Entries files only

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Steve Sapovits wrote: I agree. We got ourselves into a weird state where I'd like to be able to have Entries reflect what can be updated so I can start at the root and selectively update pieces. In its current state it thinks there are only two subdirectories. But I think doing 'cvs -n

RE: updating Entries files only

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: * On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:53:28AM -0400 Jim.Hyslop wrote: As a side note, though: don't be poking around the Entries file. There is rarely, if ever, any need to examine the contents of the file. You mean, do not poke around with them unless you are working

RE: What should I do with CVS after IP address changed

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Hong, Yi wrote: I got the following error message after I tried cvs update command: cvs [update aborted]: connect to cvs-rep(141.106.32.35):2401 failed: Connection timed out We just readdressed IP of our test server. We are using CVS to transfer modified files from test server to

RE: updating Entries files only

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Well, renaming ABC/ to abc/ was a deliberate decision as all directories should be lowercase on our side. We did not know that CVS has such a problem with this. I see. That's a tricky one to overcome. Sometimes, you just gotta bend the rules a little: how important is

RE: updating Entries files only

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
I wrote: Actually, though, I should think a 'cvs update -P ABC' followed by a 'cvs update -ld abc' should do the trick for you. Sorry, the -l option wouldn't be necessary: 'cvs update -d abc' -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (

RE: Share A cvs repository between two OSes

2005-04-19 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Mr. Question wrote: I dual boot Windows and Linux. In linux, I have a CVS repository set up. Is there a way to access (commit, checkout, update, add, etc.) this repository from Windows (using cvs in cygwin). If there was some way to have windows map the ext3 drive so that it could be

RE: Update to create a directory with absolute paths

2005-04-18 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use cvsnt and I have the following problem: You will get better, more complete answers if you contact a list that focuses on CVSNT. This list focuses on CVS available from www.cvshome.org Try http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt or

RE: Best method to overwrite someone's changes?

2005-04-18 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or maybe this... cd to branchA sandbox cvs up -j branchA -j tag_yesterday_branchA cvs commit I found this e-mail (below) from Derek a while back. Can I use this method to revert a branch to a certain tag date? IOW, cvs up -r branchA -j

How do we get in touch with the list owners?

2005-04-18 Thread Jim.Hyslop
I have tried on many occasions to get hold of the list owners to complain about a particular user. I have not received any responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED], or from [EMAIL PROTECTED]' (the 'mailto' link at lists.gnu.org). I have received neither an acknowledgement of my request, nor a bounce

RE: tortoisecsv

2005-04-15 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Gleidson Sá Barreto wrote: I use the TortoiseCVS client... I imported a project for the repository, successfully. Later the necessity appeared of if to create a sub-directory in my project... I made a checkout of the project, and added the sub-directory and I commited. It happens that

RE: Locking the branch

2005-04-15 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Vijay SP wrote: I have a requirement to lock a branch just before the release. I tried to browse thru the documentation and did get some idea. Has someone implemented it? If so could you please share the details? Get rid of the requirement. There is never any reason whatsoever for locking

RE: How to see if a tag was moved?

2005-04-14 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Koen wrote: does any of you know whether it is possible to see if and when a (non-branch) tag has been moved in a CVS repository? If so: how? 'cvs history' _might_ show it, if the rlog command was used. Other than that, no. (Isn't that Kaz's cue to jump in and promote Meta-CVS? :=) -- Jim

RE: Clearing the stick option???

2005-04-14 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a text file that, for some reason, has a -kb sticky option. How do I clear it via cvs admin? cvs admin -kkv filename cvs update -A filename [resolve any CR/CRLF issues if necessary] -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (

RE: Clearing the stick option???

2005-04-14 Thread Jim.Hyslop
I wrote: cvs admin -kkv filename BTW, in case anyone's wondering: no, that is not a typo - you need two 'k' in there: -kkv not -kv -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )

RE: Clearing the stick option???

2005-04-14 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks! that worked. I did actually look at the help and docu. but I couldn't make sense out of it. Was there anything in particular you would recommend changing to make it more understandable? -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International

RE: Clearing the stick option???

2005-04-14 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Christopher Fouts wrote: cvs -H admin says, for -k, -k subst Set keyword substitution mode: kv (Default) Substitute keyword and value. How does one associate sticky option with keyword and value, for example? Are these words synonymous in the CVS world? Not quite. The sticky

RE: Removing files and directories from repository

2005-04-13 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Tulio Bender wrote: I want to permanently remove some files and directories that I imported to the wrong path in the repository. I tried to checkout that module, delete the files from working directory and them commit. But looking in the repository, the files are now inside the Attic and

RE: Severe speed problems with binary files

2005-04-13 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your case, you've got five distinct revisions of the file (1.1 and 1.1.1.1 should be identical) Should they? -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (

RE: Severe speed problems with binary files

2005-04-13 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1.1 same as 1.1.1.1] Normally. The only time they wouldn't be is if the file already existed when you did the first import. Ah, right, import vs. 'cvs add'. I usually don't use import ;-) -Larry Jones Rats. I can't tell my gum from my Silly Putty. -- Calvin I

RE: Problems after branching

2005-04-12 Thread Jim.Hyslop
KS wrote: cvs watch is probably on. just change the unix permissions on the working copy and it should temporarily fix it. the other option is to use cvs edit and unedit before and after doing work on the working copy, but it has its own side effects. Maik Walter wrote: (cvs add:

RE: Problems after branching

2005-04-12 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Maik Walter wrote: I use a SuSE SLES 9 server with CVS 1.11.14. After branching and new checkout for this new branch I have the strange effect that some directories from project have in their CVS/Tag file the entry Nbranch-name instead of Tbranch-name. All files in the relevant

RE: Problems after branching

2005-04-12 Thread Jim.Hyslop
I wrote: cvs watch for a reason - do not subvert that reason by simply restoring read access locally. Oops - sed 's/read access/write access' -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (

RE: Removing nonexistant mail account (was: Benachrichtung zum +A Nw-bermittlungsstatus (Fehlgeschlagen))

2005-04-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: BTW, at least the first mail address you mentioned is not the one listed on the given page. ;-) It's gnulist-ownrr (yes, there is a typo in it. This might be intentionally, or it might not.) Well, the display text is completely different from the link - the link

RE: Newbie Query: Command line option for checking out to local c omp from cvs server

2005-04-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Russ Sherk wrote: Please direct all other questions about cvs on windows to: http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt or news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt Correction: please address questions about CVSNT to those addresses. This list is the appropriate place to discuss CVS on

RE: Newbie cvs question - large project

2005-04-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies. Regarding the 'millions of source files' remark - sorry, but what I meant was my project has thousands (2000+) of source files, with a combined size (including bitmap resources etc) of hundreds of megabytes. Ah, that sounds much more sane and

RE: Win32 cvs client - Unix cvs server

2005-04-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Sisyphus wrote: The FAQ says that Win32 cvs clients don't get along with Unix cvs servers, and the mix should be avoided. Is that advice still correct ? Absolutely not. AFAIK that mis-advice has _never_ been correct. Where did you read that? I didn't see any topic along those lines at

RE: Fwd: Benachrichtung zum +ANw-bermittlungsstatus (Fehlgeschlag en)

2005-04-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: * On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:16:29PM +0530 Satya Prasad D.V wrote:a Does this mean, no one receiving mails OR this guy's id no longer exists?? It's only that this guy does not exist anymore. As he does not exist for very long know, this might raise the

RE: setting main branch permission in CVSNT

2005-04-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: may i know how i can set the write permission in the main branch (HEAD)?? so that only the team leader has the right to check out and commit in the HEAD. the other developers only can check out/commit in the sub-branches from the HEAD, but NOT the HEAD itself.

RE: Newbie cvs question - large project

2005-04-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.We are currently working on a large project now. As the project is currently under way, we are constantly making changes to the codes, with different people changing different part of the codes. In this situation, what is the best way to start implementing CVS? I was

RE: Seeing all changes between 2 tagged versions?

2005-04-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Koen wrote: Now, I'd like to know if CVS can help me in verifying step 4, by listing for me all the changes to my codebase between TAG_MyApp_1.0 and TAG_MyApp_1.1. Any advice? The diff and log suggestions earlier in this thread should fit the bill perfectly. Ideally, I would only get the

RE: CVS I/O exception Message

2005-04-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
DHARNA, AJAY [AG/1000] wrote: Does anyone know whether the I HATE YOU message can be changed? Error validating location: I/O exception occurred: Connection refused: I HATE YOU Whether it is possible to either change or capture this message and then display a more appropriate message to

RE: no such repository

2005-04-07 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim.Hyslop writes: You can have as many '--allow-root' options in your (x)inetd.conf file as you want. Well, I suppose there is some upper limit, but for practical purposes it's probably much higher than any sane person would use :=) Not necessarily, many

RE: Copying from one branch to another

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Suhas Hangal wrote: If i have 2 branches in cvs and for a particular file there is no difference in content of the 2 branches and i make changes in one branch and commit, then can i simply copy from branch A to branch B No or i have to checkout branch B use cvs update -j Branch A x.x and

RE: no such repository

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Vincent YSMAL wrote: Yes, i did a cvs init for the /cvsroot Here's a thought - can you try with a different repository, and log the entire process? -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (

RE: Checkout first branched version (Derek or Mark please read)

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: - I omitted to say I need to do this on a branch that was created months ago and has subsequent commits to it. Ah, of course, life is never simple is it? :=) There was a patch submitted about a month ago on the bug-cvs list, which added special reserved tags, such as

RE: cvs update -A doesn't work . . . ?

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Christopher Currie wrote: I'm trying to commit a file that has a sticky tag: cvs server: sticky tag `1.8' for file `shopnav.ascx' is not a branch cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! From all the documentaton I have, I read that the way to clear the sticky tag

RE: Check time of tagging

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: Is it possible to produce a list of all files with a specific tag The only thing that comes to mind is: cvs lo -h | grep -E (RCS file|blah) | grep -B1 blah | grep -v blah and the time each file was tagged (not commited, tagged)? Well, if the tags were applied with

RE: Check time of tagging

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Euan Guttridge writes: Is it possible to produce a list of all files with a specific tag Yes, see the various log/rlog options, particularly -r and -S. Well, yeah, if you want to do it the _easy_ way :-) -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology

RE: cvs update -A doesn't work . . . ?

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Christopher Currie wrote: Robert -- the output of 'status,' 'update,' 'status,' and then a final try at commiting the file is below. [...] === File: shopnav.ascxStatus: Locally Modified Working revision: 1.8

RE: cvs update -A doesn't work . . . ?

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Christopher Currie wrote: cvs on our server is version 1.3.2.03, and on our client machines, the version is: 1.3.20.3 Beta (Build 3), WINCVS. Thanks Jim. - Christopher P.S. I've been using the command line interface of WINCVS to run cvs commands. WinCVS uses CVSNT, not CVS

RE: no such repository

2005-04-05 Thread Jim.Hyslop
(re-adding info-cvs to recipients) Vincent YSMAL wrote: Ok,so i make all the process to another repository, and it's work fine when login to /cvsroot but, i was for an gforge install, and all the other repositery like /cvsroot/prjtest, are not accesible.. have you an idea, or some

RE: Is there a safe way to do this kind of offline CVS management ?

2005-04-04 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Doug Lee wrote: Forgive me here please, but I understand neither what scares and annoys you, nor what you suggest. The fact that you are relying on others to remember not to modify the repository scares me. The fact that you are telling people not to modify the repository annoys me. Some of our

RE: Is there a safe way to do this kind of offline CVS management ?

2005-04-04 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Catching up a little here. Boy, these conversations can move quickly on weekends! In your first message, the part Tell everyone that they should not modify the central tree really scares (and annoys) me. Generally, the only operations where you should tell people not to check things in are

RE: rlog questions

2005-04-04 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Mark O'Brien wrote: Is there any reason not to use the -n option to cvs when calling rlog? None that I can think of offhand. Is there a way to run rlog without getting the comment entries in the output? Have a look at the rlog options (cvs --help rlog) - there are several options that

RE: Checkout first branched version

2005-04-04 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: How can you check out from a branch the first version of a file since branching? Apply a non-branch tag, then check out based on the tag. Why do you want to do this? -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )

RE: Checking out a particular version through command line

2005-04-04 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Balaji D wrote: I need to check out files of a particular version from CVS into anoher module. What do you mean into another module? Can I perform this through command line.(Checking out a particular version from some other CVS where I have only read access). Certainly - 'cvs --help

RE: Branch or version tag?

2005-04-04 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: How can you determine if a tag is a branch or version tag? 'cvs status -v' will tell you. You could also use 'cvs log' but then you'd have to manually interpret the revision number. Any revision number where the second-to-last number is 0 is a branch tag. For example:

RE: Checkout first branched version

2005-04-04 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: To: 'Jim.Hyslop'; 'info-cvs@gnu.org' Why do you want to do this? - To apply a non branch tag to mark the start of the branch (root) for merging purposes using Eclipse. Ah, I see. I thought you meant you wanted to tag version 1.x.y.1, i.e. the first version you checked

RE: delete an from local CVS/Entries file

2005-04-01 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Antony Paul wrote: Web based - Java. We use branches and it is to avoid merging only. Each task have some modified and some new files. We send mails for each task. If editing Entries file is so problematic it is better to have another working copy where testing passed files are checked

RE: RE: Not all modules are checked out

2005-04-01 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Sarah Steinmetz wrote: repos is the repository: CVSROOT=:pserver:host:/somedirectories/repos proj1, proj2, proj3 are subdirectories of repos. So they are on the same level. Do I understand right, that proj1, proj2, proj3 are modules? Is repos a module too, because checkout expects

RE: no such repository

2005-04-01 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Vincent YSMAL wrote: Hi, I just installed Cvs on a Fedora Core 3, i init the cvsroot, put the --allow-root in xinetd.d, but when i try to log on in pserver mode, i always got a error message : no such repository. Can anyone help me Double-check to make sure the repository part of your

RE: Not all modules are checked out

2005-03-31 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Sarah Steinmetz wrote: I have I problem when trying to checkout all modules of a repository: I have access to an repository called repos. There are three modules called proj1 proj2 proj3. After the checkout with cvs checkout repos only proj1 proj2 are in my working copy. When I checkout

RE: Not all modules are checked out

2005-03-31 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Sarah Steinmetz wrote: There are only comment lines. Therefore I don't understand why one module (proj3) is treated differently when I checkout all modules. Should I insert the modules explicitely in the modules file? OK, so 'repos' is a top-level directory in your repository, yes? In the

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 workspace

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 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

RE: Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Todd Denniston wrote: ok another set of assumptions on my part 1) each _project_ has a separate repo and any NDA stuff is kept even separate from the other normal things. Hmmm... given the large number of projects we have, which share sub-projects (e.g. internal libraries) this wouldn't be

RE: cvs editors funny

2005-03-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Colm Aengus Murphy wrote: The current cvs edit command stores the users name and workspace location in the fileattr file. I'm guessing that when you unedit or checkin it it only matching the users name and not the workspace location. How difficult would it be to check the users name and

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: I want to check out a branch, then subsequent tagged files on top of that branch. I do not want to -j merge the subsequent tagged files into the branch but do a wholesale replacement. What is the best method please? Actually, a -j would do the job: cvs update -A [make

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Rick Genter wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Euan Guttridge Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:29 AM To: 'info-cvs@gnu.org' Subject: Checkout's over checkouts. I want to check out a branch, then subsequent tagged files on top of that branch. I do not want to -j merge the

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
I wrote: Euan Guttridge wrote: I want to check out a branch, then subsequent tagged files on top of that branch. I do not want to -j merge the subsequent tagged files into the branch but do a wholesale replacement. What is the best method please? Actually, a -j would do the job:

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: Thanks for the input Jim and Rick, to clarify Objective: - check out a branch to workspace - *overwrite* a number of those files in workspace from various tags (not update so there is no possibility of merge conflicts) - tag the consolidated workspace Caveats: -

RE: Checkout's over checkouts.

2005-03-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Euan Guttridge wrote: [EUAN] A number of files will have the same tag, i.e. if you check out tag1 you will get 20 files. This will be done weekly. OK, now let's back up a step. Why are you doing this? What are you trying to accomplish with this procedure? -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software

RE: Diff Info

2005-03-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Todd Denniston wrote: SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote: [...] In the future, Please chop out any digest matterial that is not related to the new question. Better still - and as I have asked Saravanan before - do not start a new message by replying to an existing message. Many mail clients

RE: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

2005-03-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[top posting as a courtesy for Doug] I haven't examined the patch, so I don't know how closely the implementation matches the proposal, but if I understand the proposed changes, whitespace is still insignificant, there's just more of it added as a buffer, as an optimization to improve speed when

RE: Remote repository permissions best practices

2005-03-28 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Todd Denniston wrote: 1) all the users who need write access to the repository should be in the same UNIX group. Doesn't this effectively negate any benefit of using groups? For example, in our setup we want full-time staff to have general access to most of the repository, and co-op students

RE: cvs editors funny

2005-03-24 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Colm Aengus Murphy wrote: We've come across the following funny when using the cvs editors feature. In my workspace I do a cvs edit to indicate I am editing a file. cvs editors correctly reports me as an editor. If I then create another workspace using cvs co and run cvs editors I am no

RE: cvs editors funny

2005-03-24 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Paul Sander wrote: You don't have to store the actual locations in the repository. (Doing so is pointless anyway given that mount points can appear and disappear non-deterministically.) Just store an identifier there, [etc] Thank you for corroborating how difficult this would be to

RE: third-party sources sharing same directory

2005-03-23 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Vitor wrote: Here is more information : i do use the following structure to keep my projects: /bin /doc /src /obj But i do use some use some external libs that i normally place at : /src/libname I understood that cvs would require an exclusive module to store external

RE: parsing loginfo (was: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 28, Issue 35)

2005-03-23 Thread Jim.Hyslop
SUBRAMANIAN, SARAVANAN (SBCSI) wrote: My requirement is to parse the the username, comment and last revision from a specified branch from the log info Can any help me with the syntax of the command. I tried may of the options, nothing work out fine.Please help me out. First, have you read the

RE: cvs -n up request to remove '?' entries

2005-03-18 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Paul vL wrote: I'm a happy cvs user for many years. One of the more annoying things however is the behaviour of cvs -n up for large working directories; I use a global -q option to trim down output, but still get an enormous list (200+) of '?' before I get my one or two 'M' entries.

RE: Tags

2005-03-17 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Gleidson Sá Barreto wrote: I made checkout TortoiseCVS project. I was view the grafic of revisoes of some files. In one revision have more tags. I don´t undestand why have more tags on only one revision. Somebody, somewhere along the line, added more tags to that revision. CVS doesn't add tags

RE: return previous revision

2005-03-17 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Gleidson Sá Barreto wrote: I work with TortoiseCVS. At some moment, I would like to return previous revision. For example my current revisiom is 1.5 and I would like return to revision 1.2. How to make this? it is necessary to create a branch? Or only update? I don't know how to do this

RE: verifymsg script

2005-03-17 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Christopher Fouts wrote: What information does CVS provide that a script that runs in verifymsg, ie, during a cvs commit, can process? I want to write a script that scans this info and say Hey I was looking for such and such, and didn't find it. The commit will then subsequently fail. Hmmm...

RE: Attic

2005-03-14 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Gleidson Sá Barreto wrote: how do you do to move an arquiv of the Attic to my project with TortoiseCVS. I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're asking. Allow me to explain a little about the Attic, and see if that answers your question. When you issue the 'cvs remove' command on a trunk

RE: Check-out with Special message on the Object about the modifi er

2005-03-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Mary Lou RODRIGUEZ wrote: How can I check-out the object and have my name visible in the Graph Selection so that other people would know that I am working on the particular object? Currently I am doing this by selecting the object and choosing the Edit Selection' All this is Greek to me.

RE: Mac CVS Client Recommendations

2005-03-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
MoonsOfJupiter wrote: My command-line impared Mac-using workmates want to know what GUI CVS client they should be using. Some are using MacCVSX now. All are running panther. I've used SmartCVS. Most of the GUI clients I've seen are simple shells that wrap the command-line client in a GUI,

RE: configuration permissions

2005-03-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Gleidson Sá Barreto wrote: How do you do to restrict the level of access to the modules of the project? For exemple all users have permission to access the module templates, but only Jon have permission to access the module system´s test. There are a couple of ways to do this. For very

RE: Renaming a file in the trunk but not in branches

2005-03-11 Thread Jim.Hyslop
David Leskovac wrote: Will the following commands work to rename a file in the trunk but retain the old file name in all its branches?: cvs co module cvs remove -f oldfile cvs add newfile cvs commit -mRenamed oldfile to newfile oldfile newfile Yes, that will work fine. -- Jim Hyslop

RE: Checkout after a change

2005-03-10 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Xapp wrote: It may not be possible to use the bash history commands in a script. Even if it is possible, I'd be very wary of doing it. It seems just a little non-deterministic for my liking. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )

RE: Checkout after a change

2005-03-09 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/rublind/public_html]# ^blindmonkey (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd /home/rublind/public_html/blindmonkey; cvs -q update -d) ) /var/chroot/cvs/cvs/CVSROOT/updatelog 21 bash: :s^blindmonkey (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd

RE: Checkout after a change

2005-03-09 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Mark E. Hamilton wrote: His error was: bash: :s^blindmonkey (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd /home/rublind/public_html/blindmonkey; cvs -q update -d) ) /var/chroot/cvs/cvs/CVSROOT/updatelog 21: substitution failed [...] in bash I get the same error -bash: :s^test: substitution failed Ah,

RE: Checkout after a change

2005-03-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting on a new project, and I only have one file in the repository now, but I've noticed that CVS does not keep the actual file on hand, but another type of file that keeps track of edits and revisions. But I want to be able to use the actual file, so is it

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