Re: RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-02-07 Thread russ . sherk
Spiro: Unified diff format will not solve the posters problem of safely committing arbitrary files. It will also create more work. As Pierre stated, Nestor should implement tighter guidelines for obtaining and submitting sources. This can be difficult if dealing with 3rdparty dev-co's (or

Re: RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-01-31 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:47:30PM + Pierre Asselin wrote: If you can't determine the revision or tag from which to branch, you probably need to tighten your controls a little... Another possiblity is to tell all your external contributors to send in only patches, never the

RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-01-30 Thread Néstor Boscán
Hi I have been using CVS for some time and have encounter problems when somebody gives me a file that I have to replaced in my CVS sandbox. This always happens because sometimes I have people outside the organization and they send new versions of files that I have to replace in the sandbox

Re: RV: Newbie question. How to manage replaced files

2005-01-30 Thread Pierre Asselin
N?stor Bosc?n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using CVS for some time and have encounter problems when somebody gives me a file that I have to replaced in my CVS sandbox. This always happens because sometimes I have people outside the organization and they send new versions of files