Re: spam on this list

2002-03-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:39:02PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: > How about these? > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 09:53:54 > > X-RBL-Warning: (inputs.orbz.org) Open relay input. See >http://orbz.org/?211.181.167.7 > > X-RBL-Warning: (relays.ordb.org) Blackholed by

Re: spam on this list

2002-03-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:20:25AM +0100, Christian Andersson wrote: > They do use some orb-list to identify the spam, although they do not stop > the e-mails from these "blocked" server, they just insert some new header > tags, that state that the message is from a server that is blocked via orbz

Re: Major cvs surgery, need suggestions

2002-03-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:19:41AM +, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > As I move *.c to src/*.c, how do I preserve the history of each file as > it's moved? If I simply do: N! (A cry of anguish is heardyou just missed a multiday round of arguments, flames, and general bad behavi

Re: *BSD use of branch point tags w/ CVS

2002-02-28 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:59:17PM -0800, Claude Johnson wrote: > From reading some of the docs about NetBSD's and FreeBSD's > release processes, I have noticed that they both use what > FreeBSD calls "branch point" tags. Not having a lot of > experience with CVS, I don't quite understand what pro

Re: renames under CVS

2002-02-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:29:23PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > That would be a very good start. However it doesn't tell us how the > picture would change if you'd done ideal, or even just better, planning > of your modules and file structure before you first checked them into > CVS. I don't

Re: cvs problem with modules, please help!

2002-02-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:01:24PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > You can't use "-d ." -- you must specify a directory name other than '.' > > (you can't use ".." in the name either, and I don't believe a > sub-directory is legal either -- i.e. no relative pathnames, just a > basic simple director

Re: CVS Update Behaviour

2002-02-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:14:21PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 12:18:37 (-0600), Steve Greenland wrote: ] > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:16:35AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > It's hardly even noticably > > > more diffi

Re: CVS Update Behaviour

2002-02-22 Thread Steve Greenland
(I should know better than to get into this...) On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:16:35AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > It's hardly even noticably > more difficult to track the history across multiple files. Greg, *that* statement is complete and utter crap. Or, please post the single *cvs* command t

Re: Should I Branch Modules / Files or the Main Line?

2002-02-21 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:32:05AM -0800, Duncan wrote: > Hello all, > > is it a better practice for said groups to: > > 1) Branch the whole main line[...] > > or > > 2) Branch just the individual files / selections to be modified [...] I've found that branching anything less than the entire

Re: Developer branches

2002-02-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:20:16AM -0800, Mark wrote: > [Lot's of good stuff, up until:] > Branches are for parallel development (ie. conflicting software > requirements/functionality) not for resolving/preventing compile > issues or isolating developers work so their changes won't impact > others

Re: how to import modules in cvs

2002-01-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:14:54PM +0100, Strecker, Roland wrote: > hi all, > > I want to import some old (non cvs)projects in cvs. > > Q:Can I make the directory-structure direct on the server before > import the sources or have to do during the import? When you import, the directory structure

Re: Question about tag

2002-01-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:39:52PM +, Colm Murphy wrote: > > So I try "cvs tag TAG Module" from the top of the sandbox. > No joy. > I get the following: > > cvs tag: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory > cvs [tag aborted]: no repository Don't do it from above your

Re: Basic usage question

2002-01-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:02:27AM -0800, James A. N. Stauffer wrote: > --- Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If people cheat by committing only the files that they modified, they > > can get around the up to date check. But that is a bad idea because > > the changes you make in one set o

Re: vi spaces and EMACS tabs -> conflicting

2002-01-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:57:46PM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: > TC Shen writes: > > > > My friends are using VI and place spaces in front of each line and I > > am using EMACS and press TAB key to reformat his file. When I do 'cvs > > commit', nothing went wrong. Then, my friends checked out a

Re: Please help me arrange my development environment

2002-01-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:11:44AM +, Preston Crawford wrote: > Because, as I stated, the absence of something like FrontPage Server > Extensions seems to prevent the creation of an environment where there is > a centralized development server like this. The only way you could > seemingly do t

Re: trouble with symlinks

2002-01-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:29:59PM +0100, Simon Strandgaard wrote: > Its not the symlink it self, i store in my repository, its the symlinked > file. > > I have only files in my repository, without any symlinks! But i have > many symlinks in the directory where i checked out my source tree. > > Wh

Re: Question - commiting modified file

2002-01-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:00:09AM -0800, Anjali Madhekar wrote: > When I generate some files during the build, they appear as 'modified' > in CVS. when I do a 'diff' the exit status is '0' indicating that the > files are indentical. [Channelling GW] "Why on earth are you storing generated files

Re: history output to file

2002-01-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:16:53AM -0600, Jones, Steve wrote: > how can i output the results of a history command to a file? cvs history -whatever_options_you_need > filename > p.s.- i am using winCVS Drop to the command line (aka DOS Prompt, aka Command Prompt), and run your history command fr

Re: Importing files

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:17:24PM -0500, Datla, Raghav wrote: > Hi, >I have set off directories which contains files of both ascii and binary, > which I need to import them into CVS repository. I know that we have to use > keyword substitution for binary files, but since I have both ascii and

Re: Accidental -kb option used when adding a text file

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:25:23PM +, Duncan Sommerville wrote: > cvs admin -kv > > Typically you need to do an 'update' afterwards for the change to > be reflected in the workspace, however in my version of CVS (1.10) > changing from a -kb to -kv needed me to redo the 'checkout' operation >

Re: Accidental -kb option used when adding a text file

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Jeffrey Inns wrote: > I accidentally used the -kb option when adding a text file to my cvs > repository. Is there any way to “undo” this operation? Check out the "cvs admin" command. Steve ___ Info-cvs maili

Re: How can I see just the log messages from a certain date?

2001-12-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:24:50AM +0200, Ayelet wrote: > I've read the very informative line : > "-d datesSpecify dates (D1 but I probably did not understand it correctly, that's why I'm posting a > question. > When I write is: > CVS log -d 12/20/2001 12/22/2001 > it returns an error mes

Re: Some help if possible!!!

2001-12-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:09:26PM +0100, Frederico Costa wrote: > > In one of the projects I have the need to make some pre processor > changes, and the way I am able to do them is by going to VC++ and change > them by hand. The C++ code and include files don't change. That's not a CVS issue. W

Re: cvs log messages

2001-12-19 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:21:34PM -0500, Jeremiah wrote: > I am using CVS on HP-UX 11.00. I use CVS in the bash shell. The CVS version > is 1.10.8. When I cvs commit a file, it brings up the vi editor and asks me > to put my comments in, which I do. Then it prompts me saying that the log > messag

Re: verifymsg doesn't work for directories - bug?

2001-12-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Mehrdad Torky wrote: > So people in our department found out about this and they are > committing files left and right without associating the check-in with > a defect ID. > > Do you guys have any recommendation how to resolve this issue? Nail those peopl

Re: recursive add

2001-12-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:53:28PM +0100, David D wrote: > Is cvs add */*/* add three level directories ? > Wonderful ! Yes, but it's nothing to do with cvs, only standard unix globbing. You can do 'echo cvs add */*/*' to see what the actual command line is. Which means it probably won't work on

Re: [cvsgui] cvs branching problem

2001-12-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:12:14PM +1000, Sasha Case wrote: > At 05:08 PM 14/12/2001 +1000, Sasha Case wrote: > >At this point if we attempt to do any operations on the branched files, it > >is as though they are not in repository. > > I've just done some more playing.. If I select all the files

Re: Visual Basic and case-sensivity

2001-12-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:39:04PM +, Kenneth Loafman wrote: > Slightly off topic... does that mean that VB is case-insensitive, or is > this a case of the IDE trying to "help"? The VB language is not case-sensitive -- "FOOBAR" is the same identifier as "foobar". But the IDE likes to help you

Re: Visual Basic and case-sensivity

2001-12-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:15:33PM +0100, ?yvind Idland wrote: > We use CVS in our organisation, and its an incdredible tool. > > However, we have a couple of Visual Basic programmers here. > If one, for example changes a function-name from FOOBar to Foobar, > the VB IDE parses _every_ single for

Re: How to merge with my cvs

2001-12-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:15:45AM +1000, Sasha Case wrote: > 1. Checkout a copy of the module based on date/time using -D. Use the date > that you gave him the files. > 2. Copy his changed files over to the checked out copy. If you're not sure which ones are changed, just copy all his files, a

Re: How to explore a repository ?

2001-12-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:23:10PM -0800, James A. N. Stauffer wrote: > tkcvs (http://www.twobarleycorns.net/tkcvs.html) has a module browser. But that only works if the module file is actually kept up to date, and IIRC tkcvs really prefers that you put special comments in the module file for it

Re: removing from rep.

2001-12-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:40:50AM -0800, Gene Volkov wrote: > $ cvs release -d tc > You have [0] altered files in this repository. > Are you sure you want to release (and delete) directory `tc': y > $ No, that deletes the working copy (aka sandbox). Mr. Hostbaek wants to delete the module from t

Re: listing un-added files?

2001-11-30 Thread Steve Greenland
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:07:11PM -0500, Michael Reed wrote: > Hello, > Can anyone recommend a way to list files (or directories) that exist > w/in a working copy that haven't been added/committed? For example, > ClearCase had "ls -view_private" or something like that to list such > files... cv

Re: Help with "multiple level" repositories for a newbie

2001-11-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:32:21AM -0800, Borja Pardo wrote: > We have an idea about version management and i'm not sure if we can perform > it using CVS. I'm also sure it is possible, but i don't know how by now. > We want to have two different levels in repositories. Let me explain: we > want a

Re: CVS & a Web site

2001-10-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:22:28PM -0400, Jason Purdy wrote: > What is a good scheme of automating synchronization between a CVS repository > and a Web site... A few links about the way(s) that others have used CVS with web sites: http://www.durak.org/cvswebsites/howto-cvs/ http://philip.greens

Re: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially?

2000-02-21 Thread Steve Greenland
sion is tagged as live, that is the state > where the client is approving a change that involves REMOVAL of that > file. If I understand what you're trying to do, it may be that Aegis would fit your needs better: it explicitly deals with various "stages" of release. htt