RE: WinCVS in french

2003-04-03 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Samuel Blanchet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:20 PM I would like to know if WinCVS exist in french ??? Hello, Please send only plain text messages to technical mailing lists. No HTML or Rich Text, please. I had a look at the

RE: OpenSource CVS-related project Needs Developers!

2003-04-03 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Greg A. Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:41 PM [ On Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 11:00:59 (-0800), Christian Bryant wrote: ] Subject: OpenSource CVS-related project Needs Developers! http://asmai.sourceforge.net/ Please take a look and email

RE: CVS Manual, section 2.9.2

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I use ssh instead of rsh because a) the connection is encrypted b) Authentication can be done on a Private Key / Public Key basis, which I consider much more secure than .rhosts at rsh. When using key authentication (using

RE: Modules and external repository

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Adam Witney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:19 AM Does anyone know why this error message means? cvs server: existing repository /usr/local/cvsroot does not match /usr/local/cvsroot/bugs/php_dev cvs server: ignoring module php_dev Yes. Your

RE: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Franky Van Liedekerke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:07 AM So now the cvs command itself ws happy, but the server complains with: up-to-date check failed for -filename.txt First do `cvs update -filename.txt` and see what that says. My testing

RE: Removing file with Wincvs not running?!

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Denis JULIEN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 6:45 AM I'm using WinCvs connected to a pserver cvs running on RH 8.0. I am not able to remove file from a module when I use the WinCvs GUI (remove selected file menu) , it displays an error message saying that

RE: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Franky Van Liedekerke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:51 AM The file was already checked out from cvs, so it is commited. Sound logic there. But now I want to delete it, and it seems modifying the repository by hand is the only way to do it ...

RE: Log data for branches

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:23 PM On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Mike Ayers wrote: Hmmm - not the results I got... cvs server: invalid option -- S Usage: cvs server [-lRhtNb] [-r[revisions]] [-d dates] [-s states

Log data for branches

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Ayers
I created a test project to illustrate a problem that I am having. I added a file, SwingApplication.java, then branched branch1. I made some changes in SwingApplication.java for both files, then added a new file, SwingApplication2.java, on the main branch. Here's the log

RE: Log data for branches

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Douglas Finkle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:32 PM I have been meaning to get this back to Karl Fogel. Actually, you should send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think Karl is the maintainer anymore. I'll get my diffs done as well, in case they

RE: CVS Manual, section 2.9.2

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Ayers
From: John Daues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:51 PM In the CVS manual, in section 2.9.2 Connecting with rsh, it says: --- For example, suppose you are the user `mozart' on the local machine `toe.example.com', and the server machine is `faun.example.org'. On

RE: Log data for branches

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:56 PM In 1.11.5, on that file, cvs log -rbranch1 would have suppressed the revisions, though it would still have printed the header information. The new(ish?) -S option would have suppressed the header as well,

Re: Bug Tracking

2003-02-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Jenn Vesperman wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 01:33, Zieg, Mark wrote: CVS's support for bug tracking is poor to nonexistent and many people have commented on it and requested better support. It already exists. http://www.bugzilla.org/docs216/html/integration.html snip CVS integration is

Re: How to tell WinCvs where is Python?

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Ayers
Richard Uhlmann wrote: Hi, I just installed WinCvs13b10.zip. When I invoked the program the first time it searches for tcl and python For future questions regarding WinCVS, you will get best results posting to the cvsgui mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). After this I installed: tcl823.exe

Re: Help please with problem with rtag

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Ayers
Lynch, Harold wrote: The problem I am seeing is that very infrequently the rtag command seems to miss a file when I tag (either a tag or a branch tag) a module in my repository. These doesn't seem to be a pattern to the file missed (both text and binary files have been missed). The

Re: CVS case problem

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Ayers
Zanabria, Moises wrote: I've a problem, I have a lot of files with the same name but with different case in the same directory, since I working on UNIX there is not a problem, but now when I tried to check out on NT this return a Conflict and this is fine because cvs try to check out 2 files

Re: CVSROOT/passwd problems.

2002-12-26 Thread Mike Ayers
Gagneet Singh wrote: I have been using the SystemAuth=yes method to authenticate users for CVS Server. (available in the CVSROOT/config file). The System I am using is Red Hat 8 with cvs-1.11.2. The repository is in /cvs directory. The permissions for this are ug+rwx. It belongs to root user

Re: GUI client that checks out 1 file?

2002-12-23 Thread Mike Ayers
Phil R Lawrence wrote: mehul choube wrote: Does anyone know how to check out just 1 file (as opposed to a whole directory) in WinCVS, Eclipse, or some other client? cvs checkout cvsClient/client.c Sorry, I've been directed to find a gui client that allows this. Do you know of any? You

Re: Problem: CVS RPM package relocation incomplete

2002-12-20 Thread Mike Ayers
Hi Martin, I think you'll have better results pursuing this in an RPM forum. The problem as you describe it seems to be a rather generic one, and I imagine that the solution, if there is one, is well known amongst RPM experts. Sorry, /|/|ike

Re: Security setup

2002-12-19 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: Let me make sure of this. You're saying that even when running only over ssh, in a jail, with a login shell of cvs, someone can still get shell access? They can't actually get an interactive shell, but unless you criple CVS, they can execute arbitrary

Re: cvs server:Up-to-date check failed for 'team/test/MyTest.java'

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Ayers
Okay, I'm just curious here, but why is your character encoding set to Japanese? HALESHAPPA SATHEESHA wrote: Hi, Could some body help to know what this problem is. Am working on CVS 1.11.3.1 installed on win2k and connecting from IBM's WSAD. There is no CVS 1.11.3.1 - current version is

Re: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname problem

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: I do not think it is possible to use WinCVS and Cygwin compiled CVS on the same sandbox. Cygwin CVS expects ALL files to be in Unix mode. While WinCVS can check out sandbox files with Unix line endings, it should still expect the CVS/* files to use

Security setup

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Ayers
Here's a bit of a challenge for the list. We need to set up a CVS repository on a Linux server such that the users can't modify the files, except through proper CVS operations. The catch? They are currently permitted to log into the server. Is there a way to seal off the repository

Re: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname problem

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: I don't think so -- I'm talking about when you install Cygwin stuff, on the Select Root Install Directory screen, there's a Default Text File Type check-box that allows you to select DOS or Unix. Provided you select DOS, the Cygwin cvs interoperates just fine with WinCVS.

Re: Security setup

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Once you're connected to a pserver, it's a fairly simple process to get it to execute arbitrary commands for you; giving someone pserver access is equivalent to giving them shell access. s/pserver/server/g The above applies to *any* kind of client/server mode, not just

Re: Security setup

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Rewrite CVS? Seriously, as I've said many times before, CVS was designed to facilitate cooperative work, it was *not* designed to enforce security in any way, shape, or form. Any attempt to make it do so is doomed to fail. I'm not quite sure if this changes anything, but

Re: Where is diff getting its path?

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Ayers
Mark Scoville wrote: Good point. Initially I could only get WinCvs to work. I checked in several files, and now that I have the CLI working, I would like to commit changes that I have recently made. However, the LF problem haunts me. If I do a CLI diff on the file now, every single line is

Re: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname problem

2002-12-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Mark Scoville wrote: I removed the directories and did a new checkout on the command line (bash) and that did the trick! Thanks. Now WinCvs is confused. What is the trick in WinCvs to teach it better (UNIX - CR/LF) manners? I did uninstall it and reinstalled it hoping it would pick up the

Re: binaries

2002-12-11 Thread Mike Ayers
Phil R Lawrence wrote: Yes, I do want multi-platform clients. So even though my -ko flag for import will remove the keyword expansion problem, the windows clients will attempt newline conversins on my binaries, and that would mess them up? Yes. So would the Mac clients. You want to add

Re: check-out via command line

2002-12-11 Thread Mike Ayers
Michael wrote: I have a problem with Wincvs checking out via command line: All files are stored in dos-format (CRLF at end of line)so I tried to use the -kb option to get no additional CR at the end of line. But Wincvs checks out every file now as binary now. In the GUI-version it is possible

Re: Using CVS to maintain XML

2002-12-11 Thread Mike Ayers
Wayne Johnson wrote: We're using InstallAnywhere5. One of the features of IA5 is that the builder control file is in XML. We were sort of hoping that we could use CVS to manage these files. It works fine until we attempt merges. The problem is that in order for CVS to properly merge the

Re: List files of a Tag

2002-12-10 Thread Mike Ayers
Fabian Cenedese wrote: There are Win32 ports of almost all Unix tools, so you should be able to do the Unix method quite well on Windows too. Maybe without the special redirecting stuff. Better still, write a script in one of the better free scripting languages - Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Python -

Re: update -l -r brnch dir doesn't seem to do anything

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Ayers
CHARLES HART, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK wrote: I've used CVS for a bit over 24 hours, having used ClearCase for the past 16 years, and I am trying to get a handle on how NOT to get a whole directory dumped into my work area. We have a directory with approximately 1,500 source files in it. (No

Re: Binary update and merge problem

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Walter Ghijsen wrote: Hi, I'm running into problems with merging binary files from one branch into another. SNIP/ Does anyone have any suggestions? Yes. Don't merge binary files. CVS knows how to merge only text files. Binary files you must handle on your own. What you probably

Re: Bug tracking.

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Steven Buroff wrote: I would like to vote for this feature too. This open source. Only patches count as votes. CVS's support for bug tracking is poor to nonexistent and many people have commented on it and requested better support. Tags don't really do it. That's because CVS is not a bug

Re: Problem with WinCVS

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Please send only plain text messages to technical mailing lists. Thanks. David Gagnon wrote: Hello, I am a new to CVS and I need some help: We have a CVS server on a Mac OSX computer and it's work well with MacCVS Pro client on a remote Macintosh. All the things seem to be ok for the

Re: Commit Problem

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Please send only plain text messages to technical mailing lists. Thanks. Bill Smith wrote: Below is a message I posted to the tortoise cvs mailing list. Additionally, I tried doing a cvs commit with cygwin cvs, I get /CVSROOTccess /var/cvs No such file or directory This is not a

Re: Commit Problem

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Bill Smith wrote: - Original Message - From: Mike Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, yes it is a cut-and-paste, here it is again including the command line Here s the entire trace with the -t option $ cvs -t commit cvs commit: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: AW: using .cvsrc in client-server setup

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Fabian Cenedese wrote: Windows 98 does not allow me to name/create a file as .cvsrc I tried naming a file just cvsrc and setting HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.It doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how they accomplished setting global options on windows 98?Any other suggestions? I really really need cvs

Re: Changing CVSROOT in CVS/Root of working directory

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Ayers
Riechers, Matthew W wrote: Alternatively, you could add the IP address of the server to the client host file(s). In Windows 98, I believe the file is c:\windows\hosts. In Windows NT systems and derivatives, the file is usually %SYSTEMROOT%\etc\hosts. CAVEAT: Doing this now may cause much

Re: Changing CVSROOT in CVS/Root of working directory

2002-11-25 Thread Mike Ayers
mmala wrote: Hi I am facing a problem. Actually, right now our DNS is down so for running client server cvs,I am adding IP address of the clients as entries in the /etc/hosts file of the machine where cvs server is running.But we all have previously checked out working directories;the old CVSROOT

Re: cvs does not add hierachy files

2002-11-25 Thread Mike Ayers
Charles Sun wrote: I am a newbie. I added many files and directories in the original check out. Is there a simple way to add all of them? ??cvs add?? does not add hierarchy files and directories. ??cvs import?? will create unnecessary tags on other cvs files. I wish ??cvs add?? has a

Re: Display all assets by TagName...

2002-11-20 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: DePaul, James writes: Is there a way in WinCvS to list all of the assets tied to a specific tag!? This is regular (command line) CVS -- WinCVS has it's own mailing list (see www.wincvs.org). But I strongly suspect the answer is no. You are correct in your suspicion.

Re: An automatically commit

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Ayers
Giohanna MEndez wrote: /---Version 11 /---version 1-/ / \ /\Version 12 version base /---version 2 \---version 3 - Version 31 Each version has: version base

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 22:20:39 (-0800), Mike Ayers wrote: ] Subject: Re: Newbie question re: ssh Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without

Re: WinCVS problem - sandbox files not shown

2002-11-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Stefan Andersson wrote: (I've tried all combinations of the Show buttons, but the only thing that differs is if non-cvs files is shown or not...) Incorrect. There are a number of Show buttons colored red. Those buttons will hide all files *except* those shown. Please check those and make

Re: Newbie question re: ssh

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Robert Koster wrote: I have set up a repository, and want to use :ext w/ SSH (without keys). Pros/cons? Con: this isn't possible. ssh operating without keys will forcibly invoke username/password login, which will gag the CVS client. /|/|ike

Re: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 11:17:10 (-0800), Shankar Unni wrote: ] Subject: RE: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts Greg opines: Then you have no accountability in your CVS repository. None. You have as much accountability as you have from ssh and the passwd file:

Re: Moving to Pserver from .rhosts

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Mahantesh writes: we have working repository running right now. Currently the mode of authentication is .rhosts. We are planning to migrate the mode of authentication to pserver. Why? :ext: is generally consider superior to :pserver:, particularly when used with ssh rather

Re: CVS, emacs, shh, cygwin

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Seth Copen Goldstein wrote: I am having trouble using cvs, emacs, bash, etc. on my windows XP machine. My configuration is: CVS: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server) Emacs: GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)\n of 2002-03-19 on buffy Cygwin: not sure version, cygwin1.dll is

Re: can't add with wincvs

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Steve Buehler wrote: Ok. I was able to get a private key setup and running so that it logs me in. Now I am running into another problem. I can connect to the server. In fact, in WinCVS, I can even do a create which gives me the following reply in WinCVS: cvs init *CVS exited normally

Re: can't add with wincvs

2002-11-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Steve Buehler wrote: I am not sure if this got through to the list or not since I didn't see it come back to me. So I am sending it again in the hopes that someone can help me. ---original message I am hoping that someone might be able to help me. My customer can't do without

Re: Newbie Problem: About repositiory

2002-11-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Noel Yap wrote: There're several things (with varying pro's and con's) you can do: 1. move back the repo until you've checked in everything you need (and don't checkout another working directory until it's moved back) 2. create a symlink (or mount the new repo) to the location of the old repo 3.

Re: Nubie question

2002-11-02 Thread Mike Ayers
Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hello all! Can anyone explain me how to get latest STABLE release of some package from CVS? Manual says that i have to use tags. But all examples in it contain tag's name, such as cvs update -r Release-02 But what if i dont know this name? Can I find it somehow? Is there

Re: pserver login problem to Linux from Win2k

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Ayers
Kaz Kylheku wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Steve deRosier wrote: Here's what is happening: 1. J: is a networked drive connected to my home directory on our Linux server via Samba You can't do that, because Linux and Windows don't agree on the representation of text files. This affects the

CVSIGNORE on WinCVS

2002-10-30 Thread Mike Ayers
I am using WinCVS. Setting the CVSIGNORE environment variable, either for user or system, does not seem to work. Does anyone know what will work. I would prefer to avoid changing CVSROOT/.cvsignore if possible, as that tends to change things for everyone on all projects. TiA, /|/|ike

Re: Visual Studio .NET projects and CVS

2002-10-28 Thread Mike Ayers
Kaz Kylheku wrote: Knowing what files are primary objects that should be version controlled is a Visual .NET problem, not a CVS problem. It's your responsibility to understand the development tool you are using, and know what all the .dsw, .opt, .ncb, .aps and whatever files mean. So that

Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Ayers
Nick Patavalis wrote: What's wrong with uid/gid based permissions? For starters, they require that each CVS user have a login account on the machine in question. In some cases, this is not acceptable. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: How do I tag only on branched module

2002-10-22 Thread Mike Ayers
I'm going to take my best shot at this, although I'm not entirely certain what the situation is. I believe your problems stem largely from your use of `cvs rtag` instead of `cvs tag`. As I understand it, you have a trunk and two branches, and are making changes, sometimes to more than one

Re: CVS server debugging

2002-10-19 Thread Mike Ayers
Dan Peterson wrote: Is there a way to start the CVS server (pserver) so it can be run through gdb? From inetd? I should hope not. This would (I believe) imply a rather serious security gap in inetd. I want to be able to debug the server process from the very beginning, but the best I can

Re: cvs commit features

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Reinstein, Shlomo wrote: Of course, a user can always use cvs add and cvs remove to add or remove files, but these two options can help him/her make sure they didn't forget to do this for some of the files. This is one of those things that might work really well, but only for

Re: Tag locking change

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Adam Bregenzer wrote: Not at all. The server that holds the cvs repository also has apache runing on it. When a commit occurs each file that is committed is copied into a seperate directory. That directory is the DocumentRoot for apache. That way, when a change is committed it is

Re: multiple servers

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Ayers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to maintain my cvs repository in multiple servers and then the client to pick a ramdom server and get the update from there. CVS was not designed for this. If you wish to do this, you will need to figure out the repository synchronization isues. You

Re: Installing WinCVS 1.2 as a stand-alone

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Ayers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Similar question here: Is there a Win98/2000 light cvs server? Light server? There's a full-featured one that you can get at http://www.cvsnt.org that will run on Windows 2K. It is implemented as an NT service. I am not a Windows expert, but that

Re: Installing WinCVS 1.2 as a stand-alone

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Ayers
Stan Berka wrote: Thanks a lot, Mike! That was exactly what I needed. CVS gives me a reliable versioning and backup this way. And yes, it's a single person development at home for our parish. Good. Now just remember to do regular backups and store them offsite, and you're

Re: Tag locking change

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Ayers
Greg A. Woods wrote: If you really Really REALLY want to tag the head of a branch then just check out the branch (or do a cvs update in any existing working directory which has no un-committed changes) then then apply the tag to what you get as a result by running cvs tag in that working

Re: symbols in patterns interpreted *recursively*?

2002-10-07 Thread Mike Ayers
RLMuller wrote: Hi All, Hello! Using a pattern I encountered behavior I didn't expect, as follows: my $ABC = abc; $_ = $ABC; print \$ABC . (/^$ABC$/? matches : does not match) . \$ABC\\n;# Matches my $ABC_DEF = abc\\def; $_ = $ABC_DEF; print \$ABC_DEF .

Re: New to CVS

2002-10-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Rob Beach wrote: As the subject says i'm new to CVS and from what I have read about it, it sounds really good. BUT I was wondering if it can handle excel .xls files ? and word .doc files the same way it can handle .txt files ? as I am Not exactly the same, but the same. When

Re: Hung CVS server processes

2002-10-01 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: That sounds like someone started a commit, the editor came up for the log message, and the person forgot about it until the next day when they finally saved the log message and let the commit complete. So... can the editor zombie or die in some other fashion

per-directory checkout files as?

2002-09-30 Thread Mike Ayers
Here's what my project structure looks like: DeathRay | +--- include | +--- source | | | +--- drivers | | | +--- applications | +--- projects

Re: Including file version during checkout

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Ayers
Frederic Brehm wrote: I don't remember many unhappy comments about $Rev$ or its cousins $Id$ and $Name$. There are many reasons to avoid $Log$, though. Ever archive a Perl script that used variables with the (not exactly unusual) variable names $Rev, $Name, or $Log? I'd like to

Re: checkout multiple tags

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Ayers
Eric Fritz wrote: The problem is what if I want to checkout the last 3 updates. If I try to use: cvs checkout -r tag1 -r tag2 -r tag3 module it only gets the files in tag3. If I try to run them seperately, one on top of the other, subsequent checkouts actually remove the files that are

Re: Newbie question : common/shared objects

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Ayers
Jay Yarbrough wrote: I'm quite new to using CVS. Our applications rely on common source, and built products alike. Some of these are 3rd party (dlls, jars, source, etc.) and some are internally developed. For instance, to build release 1.2 of product X, I need release 3.4 of product A,

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Todd Denniston writes: Not that I WANT to work in the windows environment, but if CVS/RCS as a repository is unstable in a local mode there, I would like to know if it is something CVS is doing or could protect against (besides refusing to work there :). If the data

Re: Adding Files To A Release Branch

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Ayers
Chuck Tomasi wrote: I'm still fairly new to CVS (less than two months). I'm using CVS 1.11.2 on a Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 system. I have a main trunk for development and currently one release branch to maintain the production system. Over the course of time the main trunk has had some files

Re: Backup single module

2002-09-23 Thread Mike Ayers
Mahantesh wrote: Hi, I want to backup single module in cvs(not whole repository) and restore whenever I want with version information. I am morally obligated to inform you that this is probably not a good idea, and may not do what you want. Can you please brief me about how to

Re: cvs [annotate aborted]: invalid change text in filename,v

2002-09-23 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Unfortunately, there's no easy way to fix your corrupted files; you'll either have to live with them, try to recreate them, or become intimately familiar with the RCS file format and try to repair them by hand. DUDE! Backups... I have had

Re: Hung CVS server processes

2002-09-20 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: So we're back to the unfriendly option -- it seems that Solaris accepts the KEEPALIVE option but doesn't actually do KEEPALIVE processing. Like I said, I suggest finding some Solaris experts and asking if there's a way to enable it. This actually isn't all

Re: pserver problem, still

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Ayers
James P. Schmidt wrote: cvs -d :pserver:zaren@(host):/usr/local/cvsrepos login CVS password: cvs login: authorization failed: server (host) rejected access to /usr/local/cvsrepos for user zaren $ ls -ld /usr/local/cvsrepos It should be at least 755. If it is, then check

Pandora's Black Box (was: Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS)

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Ayers
Eric Siegerman wrote: I'd rephrase there should be no need to depending on your process, you might be able to get away without it. I wouldn't. But I will concede that most of the industry has accepted standards of work in software that could be vastly improved upon, and my should

Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Ayers
Frederic Brehm wrote: For performance reasons (I/O throughput during compiles and network traffic) you might want to put it on a local disk. Policy makers don't always understand performance issues, though. It also helps to point out that there should be no need to backup the

Re: no space on device - import

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: If you can move it without changing its full path and without using symbolic links, the move will be completely transparent. If you keep the path the same by using symbolic links, most things will work fine but eventually you'll probably run into problems with things

Re: CVS WINDOWS

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Ayers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry I'm using WinCVS. I checked the option check for an alternate rsh name = c:\cvs\ssh2.exe I tried: c:\cvs\ssh2 myname@mayserver and it works If you're using WinCVS, then setting CVSROOT does nothing, unless you've set it inside WinCVS. WinCVS

Re: Ignoring everything *but* a list of flies

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Nuno Nunes wrote: I was wondering what is the best way to do something that I cannot find documentation for (maybe I haven't looked deep enough?). I want to have cvs keep track of some files in a directory where I will have a lot of other files appear. The problem is that of course I only

Re: CVS server process still running long after command is executed

2002-09-03 Thread Mike Ayers
Jeeva Sarma wrote: Hi all I have received no replys for this question whish I posted 2 days ago. The primary reason for that would be that you gave no information from which an answer could be derived. First, check if your server is set up so that it logs all its output - if

Re: Getting diffs between two revisions

2002-08-16 Thread Mike Ayers
Derek Robert Price wrote: Johnny John wrote: Hello: Should I not be able to update my working copy of a file by doing something as follows? cvs update -j HEAD:2002-07-17 12:00 -j HEAD:2002-07-19 12:00 to get changes between July 17 and July 19 placed into my local working copy?

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: Yes, I have tried this and it's works. Would replacement of checkout with co result in the exact same thing? `cvs checkout` and `cvs co` are the same command, so yes. /|/|ike ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: Mike Ayers writes: So if you are using CVS properly, the CVSROOT env var never comes into play. I think you're overstating the case. Most people just use a single repository and even people who use multiple repositories usually have one repository

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-13 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Albin Takami wrote: To clarify, the repository location is the directory that you set the CVSROOT variable to, right? Yes, but you should not need to set CVSROOT - in fact

Re: sync repositories

2002-08-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Zieg, Mark wrote: I have to sync two CVS repositories located on two non- connected networks. (yep, this means tape/CDROM transports, I know it sounds silly). I was wondering if there is a better way than creating incremental tar files on both sides and applying them on the other side.

Re: (OT) Mailing List Commands

2002-08-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Mark Cooper wrote: Does anyone know where the list of recognisable embedded commands for this mailing list can be found? Well, the web admin page, as listed below, at http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs, contains the options. There aren't many, though. The web page

Re: sync repositories

2002-08-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Zieg, Mark wrote: I have to sync two CVS repositories located on two non- connected networks. If you MUST do this (and it is almost certain that you do not need to, but that's another story) I assume that you've never had to develop under DOD-enforced contract requirements, or you

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-02 Thread Mike Ayers
Albin Takami wrote: 5.5 Peggy never checked out any files/module because the files she is trying to check-in/commit are new files (first time check-in). *BZZZT* Sorry... This is the problem. Once a project is created, in order to work in the project, one must

Re: Newbie Q: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading

2002-08-01 Thread Mike Ayers
H Albin Takami wrote: 4. Checked in/committed a bunch of files with cvs ci *.v What are *.v files? (Just curious) 5. I setup the .cshrc file for another user, Peggy. 5.5 When did Peggy do `cvs checkout project/module`? This is when the CVS directories

Re: Trying to download sourcecode

2002-07-31 Thread Mike Ayers
Naughty, naughty! Please don't send HTML or rich text email to newsgroups or mailing lists. Steele, Lynne wrote: I am trying to download cvs source from ccvs.home.org to use for a You mean ccvs.cvshome.org, I hope? project and the download seems to be just pushing me

Re: (no subject)

2002-07-31 Thread Mike Ayers
Josh wrote: As I am running the CVS server (v1.11.2 pserver) on a (linux) machine with two network adapters I would very much like to know if it is possible to bind the server to a specific network interface? Douglas Finkle wrote: Check out http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ipfilter/. You

Re: ftp location for CVS mailing list archives

2002-07-30 Thread Mike Ayers
Yep! L(.)(.)k here--+ | Johnson, Susan wrote:| Is there an ftp location where I could download the| CVS mailing list archives? |

Re: Repairing repository

2002-07-30 Thread Mike Ayers
Okay, here's how I restored my repository from a recent archive of the repository itself and a good working tree (sandbox). Thanks to all who responded - I couldn't have done it without you. First, all work is done on copies of the archive and the sandbox. Whenever I made a

How I repaired my repository

2002-07-30 Thread Mike Ayers
[Note: this is an update. There were two steps I forgot] Okay, here's how I restored my repository from a recent archive of the repository itself and a good working tree (sandbox). Thanks to all who responded - I couldn't have done it without you. First, all work is

Re: Is there a mean to set up cvs to check-out methods?

2002-07-29 Thread Mike Ayers
Cristian Romanescu wrote: I have a request from my boss, to find a mean to check-out from the repository not files, but at method level. Is there a way to set-up cvs to do that? Ummm - does your boss realize that this is an unsound request? Allow me to elaborate. The file is the

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