Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Sunday, October 6, 2002 at 14:31:00 (+1000), Ken Williams wrote: ] Subject: Re: cvswrappers questions Now, I don't really expect that CVS is going to automatically preserve filesystem attributes (in my case, they're type/creator codes from an HFS+ filesystem, so it would perhaps have

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-04 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 01:23 AM, Frederic Brehm wrote: At 06:04 AM 10/2/2002, Ken Williams wrote: Original problem: I have a binary file that I'd like to store in CVS. It's a file used on Mac OS X, and needs to have type/creator codes set properly in the filesystem. These

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-04 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 08:13 PM 10/2/2002, Ken Williams wrote: Use your build system (make?) to fix the type/creator codes. I'm not using a build system. I'm just sharing project data. This file is a database that the people working on this project need to access. We each update it often, potentially, so we use

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-04 Thread Larry Jones
Ken Williams writes: I do feel like that's not a very good answer, though, since all I'm claiming here is that certain types of files break just by going into and out of CVS. It seems like that might be something worth fixing in CVS. It is, it's just not very high priority. -t/-f

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:17:32PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: Aborting a half-done commit is not something to be done lightly. True! Never mind... -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The acronym for the powers that be differs by only one letter

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-03 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 06:04 AM 10/2/2002, Ken Williams wrote: Original problem: I have a binary file that I'd like to store in CVS. It's a file used on Mac OS X, and needs to have type/creator codes set properly in the filesystem. These codes don't survive a pass through the CVS repository (they are empty when

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:04:30PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: cvs [server aborted]: -t/-f wrappers not supported by this version of CVS. The -t/-f functionality was removed quite some time ago. If I recall, it never worked well, and never worked at all client/server. If it's even documented,

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-03 Thread Larry Jones
Ken Williams writes: Second problem: now my CVSROOT/cvswrappers file is unusable because of the above error, and I can't commit changes in order to fix it - because of the same error. How can I fix it if I can't commit changes? I'm afraid you have to edit the repository file directly.

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-03 Thread Larry Jones
Eric Siegerman writes: It'd be nice if CVS were more forgiving (i.e. if it reduced the error to a warning if it was in an entry that's not triggered by the current operation). Unfortunately, at the time the error is detected, CVS has no idea whether that particular entry is going to end up

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-03 Thread Ken Williams
On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 12:32 AM, Frederic Brehm wrote: At 08:13 PM 10/2/2002, Ken Williams wrote: Use your build system (make?) to fix the type/creator codes. I'm not using a build system. I'm just sharing project data. This file is a database that the people working on this

Re: cvswrappers questions

2002-10-03 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 01:33 AM, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:04:30PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: cvs [server aborted]: -t/-f wrappers not supported by this version of CVS. The -t/-f functionality was removed quite some time ago. If I recall, it never worked

cvswrappers questions

2002-10-02 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, I had one original problem, and now I have two. Here they are, in order: Original problem: I have a binary file that I'd like to store in CVS. It's a file used on Mac OS X, and needs to have type/creator codes set properly in the filesystem. These codes don't survive a pass through