Re: Merging on Vendor releases

2002-12-02 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:03:36PM +0100, Fabio Fracassi wrote: What I like to do is porting one local change at a time e.g. I have the following tags VendorRelease basicChanges extension1 extension2 product I'd like to take the new Vendor version and first apply the basicChanges,

Re: Merging in CVS

2002-11-22 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:35:17AM -0500, MacMunn, Robert wrote: When I merged 2 files I got extra lines teling me where the merged lines where. Is there any way around this ? The extra lines with and appear only when there are conflicts in the merged files. They are a feature, not a bug,

vendor branch imports, deleted files

2002-10-31 Thread Nick Patavalis
I see that when I import a new vendor version (to the vendor branch), files that have been removed by the vendor (but not modified by me) are not removed. Is this a bug or a feature? Any sugestion for an easy way to find and remove these files? Thanks /npat -- In the beginning the Universe was

Re: vendor branch imports, deleted files

2002-10-31 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:43:18PM -0800, Kaz Kylheku wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Nick Patavalis wrote: Did you complete the merge merge from the vendor branch by doing the update/checkout -j old -j new ? Oooops! You're right! /npat -- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file

Re: vendor branch imports, deleted files

2002-10-31 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:30:11PM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: (note that you *MUST* use the actual release tags for this to work as opposed to using branch:yesterday or any similar schemes) Why -- Developing skills that depend on a proprietary product makes you a sharecropper on your own

When are keywords substituted?

2002-10-29 Thread Nick Patavalis
Reading from the CVS (info) manual [keyword substitution / using keywords]: To include a keyword string you simply include the relevant text string, such as `$Id$', inside the file, and commit the file. CVS will automatically expand the string *as part of the commit operation*. Is this

Re: Per-modules readers/writers ?

2002-10-25 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:49:08PM -0400, David R. Chase wrote: Hello there, I'm mainly trying to obtain finer granularity access control via pserver (or other remote access) authentication rather than via the filesystem's uid/gid and related permissions. What's wrong with uid/gid based

Re: Stow

2002-10-25 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:07:22PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote: Stow (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html) is excellent for this! It's basically a package manager, but an extremely lightweight one. I agree. Stow rules! It is a fine example of treating problems with a purelly unix

Re: CVS Web frontend

2002-10-25 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:03:40PM -0500, Steve Buehler wrote: Does anybody know of a few that I can checkout? Try http://freshmeat.net; and search for CVS. I am sure you will find some. I hava not used any, but I am certain I've seen a few when I was looking arround. /npat -- This

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:15:30AM -0400, James Hughes wrote: Nick Patavalis wrote: What tags exist, listed in chronological order? What are the names of the tags corresponding to vendor-branch imports, in chronological order? What tags exist in a specific branch? cvs

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:10:30AM -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: Nick Patavalis wrote: Take for instance this very real example (my source-tree is a linux-kernel): cvs status -v Makefile === File: Makefile

Re: Info about tags

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:24:41AM -0700, Johnson, Susan wrote: Nick, I would need a tool like that too. People have pointed me to winCVS (windows tools) but I really want a command-line-based output. Looking arround I found a very interesting little perl program. I's called cvs-exp, its

Re: Merging from vendor-branch to branch

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:28:43PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: In effect, that after the import a user checking out from the branch might get files from the newer vendor version? No, that's one thing that shouldn't happen. Indeed that's part of the problem though -- after an import and

Info about tags

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
Is there any way to get, via a script of something, information about the tags in a CVS-controlled tree? I want for example to answer the questions like the following: What tags exist, listed in chronological order? What are the names of the tags corresponding to vendor-branch imports, in

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:49:36PM -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: Nick Patavalis wrote: You merge the local changes cvs co -j VENDOR_R1 -j VENDOR_R2 module You resolve the confilicts, test the new sources, and generaly make sure that everything is stable. Then commit your changes

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:58:27PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: I would think that with the situation above, doing a cvs tag VENDOR_R2_MERGED in the working directory where conflict resolution was finished would be the safest method, to be sure you tagged the resolved files and not

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:24:47PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: The problem was, if one of the files was *deleted* on the branch, cvs tag wouldn't move the tag for that file - you'd have to use cvs rtag for it. The developer in question had done separate cvs rms on the mainline and the branch,

Merging from vendor-branch to branch

2002-10-22 Thread Nick Patavalis
We have a cvs tree, on which we work for quite some time now since the sources were first imported. As a result a considerable amount of changes have been collected. Now the vendor has shiped a new version and we would like to merge the changes back to our tree. Due to the complexity of the task

Re: Merging from vendor-branch to branch

2002-10-22 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:16:31PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: It's not really safe to use normal branches in a vendor-branched module, at least not one in which you plan to do more cvs imports to the vendor branch. What do you mean!?! That if I create a branch (a normal branch), and latter