Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no trigger for cvs rm and there MUST _NOT_ be. There is no trigger for cvs add and there MUST _NOT_ be. Please defend your position for 'MUST NOT' as it seems an entirely reasonable suggestion that

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 10:38:44 (-0500), Derek Robert Price wrote: ] Subject: Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes) Perhaps a -C option to `cvs add' similar to `cvs edit', where -C can be placed in the user's

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg A. Woods wrote: There is no trigger for cvs rm and there MUST _NOT_ be. There is no trigger for cvs add and there MUST _NOT_ be. I have to admit, there is a certain logic to drawing the line at triggers for repository changes, not workspace

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 10:38:44 (-0500), Derek Robert Price wrote: ] Subject: Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes) Perhaps a -C option to `cvs add

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-partysources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Todd Denniston
Me Too post Derek Robert Price wrote: Greg A. Woods wrote: There is no trigger for cvs rm and there MUST _NOT_ be. There is no trigger for cvs add and there MUST _NOT_ be. I have to admit, there is a certain logic to drawing the line at triggers for repository changes, not workspace

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, Is it reasonable to suggest that a addinfo trigger could be run as a part of the 'cvs commit' command should the client not happen to connect to the server for a 'cvs add' operation? The idea would be that having simpler triggers for

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-partysources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Denniston wrote: I also still would not object to the a `cvs add -C' convenience hook which requested that the client contact the server and validate the add. Any team that valued this option significantly should find it fairly easy to enforce

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark D. Baushke wrote: Hi Greg, Is it reasonable to suggest that a addinfo trigger could be run as a part of the 'cvs commit' command should the client not happen to connect to the server for a 'cvs add' operation? It should probably run

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Robert Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark D. Baushke wrote: Hi Greg, Is it reasonable to suggest that a addinfo trigger could be run as a part of the 'cvs commit' command should the client not happen to connect to the server for

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark D. Baushke wrote: For that matter, I would like to see disconnected 'cvs diff' commands where possible for users that already have a CVS/Base/* version of the file around... Yep. I'm actually tempted to have the CVS client always create

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 09:19:18 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes) It depends on the nature and extent of the changes. I can

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ On Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 10:38:44 (-0500), Derek Robert Price wrote: ] Subject: Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes) Perhaps a -C option to `cvs add' similar to `cvs edit

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've already discussed how to add such a capability in such a way that it involves zero overhead for those who don't want it: Register no triggers and defer their enforcement until commit time. But for

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg A. Woods wrote: There is no trigger for cvs rm and there MUST _NOT_ be. There is no trigger for cvs add and there MUST _NOT_ be. I have to admit, there is a certain logic to drawing the line at triggers for repository changes, not workspace

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Derek Robert Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark D. Baushke wrote: Hi Greg, Is it reasonable to suggest that a addinfo trigger could be run as a part of the 'cvs commit' command should the client not happen to connect to the server for a

add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-17 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: Keep in mind that, although Greg does not acknowledge it, a number of people in this forum have stated a requirement for an add-time trigger that could be used for such things as enforcement of naming conventions and access

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-17 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Sander wrote: Keep in mind that, although Greg does not acknowledge it, a number of people in this forum have stated a requirement for an add-time trigger that could be used for such things as enforcement of naming conventions and access

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-17 Thread Derek Robert Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander wrote: It's true that add and commit hooks can enforce the same kinds of policies as post-conditions of the commit. However, add hooks can enforce things like naming conventions. I'm working in a shop right now that prefers to have

Re: add hook question (was Re: Problem with importing third-party sources and adding/committing changes)

2004-11-17 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Sander wrote: It's true that add and commit hooks can enforce the same kinds of policies as post-conditions of the commit. However, add hooks can enforce things like naming conventions. I'm working in a shop right now that prefers to have

Re: Question on modules file

2004-11-16 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yamuna Ramasubramaniyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem using a directory name with a space in it in the modules file. Can the modules file not support spaces in the directory name? Correct. Spaces in file and directory names are

Question regarding cvs admin

2004-11-16 Thread Godavarthi, Manasa
Hi, I read it on info-cvs how to change a branchname using cvs admin commands. I had to change a branch name and by accident I went into the repository(CVS ROOT) itself and executed the following command : cvs admin -nNew_Branch_Name:Old_Branch_Name And it gave me message saying Administering

Re: Question regarding cvs admin

2004-11-16 Thread Larry Jones
Godavarthi, Manasa writes: I had to change a branch name and by accident I went into the repository(CVS ROOT) itself and executed the following command : cvs admin -nNew_Branch_Name:Old_Branch_Name And it gave me message saying Administering each module_name I am not sure if I erased

Question on modules file

2004-11-15 Thread Yamuna Ramasubramaniyan
Hello, I have a problem using a directory name with a space in it in the modules file. I have the following line in my modules file: Docs -d Eng-us Docs_src/Help\ Files When I do cvs -d /home/cvs checkout Docs, I get an error: cvs [checkout aborted]: there is no repository

Re: Pvcs2Rcs Script capability Question

2004-11-12 Thread Derek Robert Price
{page:Section1;} -- Hi Derek, One Small Question? Can I convert the PVCS archives 6.8 on Windows 2000 to CVS archives in Linux from the script? Because Script is on LINUX box and How I give it the windows archives ? Thanks in advance Pars Derek - -- *8

RE: question about rtag command.

2004-11-10 Thread Lynch, Harold
Title: question about rtag command. That works for the trunk, but I was looking at being able to tag the status of a branch at a specified date/time. Harold -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Stuart StevensSent: Tuesday

question about rtag command.

2004-11-09 Thread Lynch, Harold
Title: question about rtag command. Is it possible (with cvs 1.11.x) to tag a branch by date? I've tried a couple of permutaions of cvs -q rtag -r branchtag -D datestring modulename But I'm not sure if it is doing what I think it's doing. Harold Lynch

RE: question about rtag command.

2004-11-09 Thread Stuart Stevens
Title: question about rtag command. Normally you would use Cvs q rtag -D datestring new tag module to tag Stuart From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynch, Harold Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question

Merging question - from and to

2004-11-04 Thread Jeeva Sarma
Hi I have a question about merging. I thought merging with two -j options was 'from' revision and 'to' revision. This is what happened in my working area from trunk. I have a file soa.pc, branched out at 1.2, now at revision 1.2.4.1 on branch, and 1.2 on trunk. I check-out from trunk, then do

Re: Merging question - from and to

2004-11-04 Thread Pierre Asselin
Jeeva Sarma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file soa.pc, branched out at 1.2, now at revision 1.2.4.1 on branch, and 1.2 on trunk. I check-out from trunk, then do [ ... ] cvs update -j 1.2 -j 1.2.4.1 soa.pc Yes, like that. The command means, merge all changes that occurred between 1.2

Question

2004-09-26 Thread Gleidson Sá Barreto
Now, I was reading a material about CVS technology and I came across some doubts in concerns the some concepts: 1-To take place the transfer of the files stored in the repository q they were modified for your work area, through a sicronização operation. Like this, would to be in fact that

Re: Question

2004-09-26 Thread Pierre Asselin
Gleidson S? Barreto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1-To take place the transfer of the files stored in the repository q they were modified for your work area, through a sicroniza??o operation. Like this, would to be in fact that sicroniza??o operation? I'm not sure what you mean, but...

Question about chacl

2004-09-13 Thread JeffreyC
I'm trying to set permissions for a projectd using chacl and am unable because the initial cvs checkout is apparently not work. We have a large repository with many projects in place, and I've been using cvs checkout for months now, usually for deployments and tagging; but for some reason in this

RE: Question about chacl

2004-09-13 Thread Arthur Barrett
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JeffreyC Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about chacl I'm trying to set permissions for a projectd using chacl and am unable because the initial cvs checkout is apparently not work. We have

question about helping cvs performance.

2004-09-10 Thread Lynch, Harold
Title: question about helping cvs performance. I'm getting complaints from the users about the amount of time it takes to do a tag or a branch (especialy the branch). Are there any standard things that can be done, or to watch out for, that would make these functions run as well

rtag question

2004-09-08 Thread Lynch, Harold
Title: rtag question will the command: cvs -q rtag -D 2004-08-09 2:00 GMT -r SOMEBRANCHTAG SOMEMODULE put a tag on branch SOMEBRANCHTAG as the files were at 2am GMT on August 9th 2004 ? I was warned that tagging by date had problems on branches. The version of cvs we are using

Question about process scheduling - revisited.

2004-08-31 Thread Lynch, Harold
Title: Question about process scheduling - revisited. I originally had a question about the way cvs server process get scheduled. Let me elaborate. The setup: Server: DELL dual intel processor (2.0 gig hertz). 4 gig ram 500 gig harddriver. Dual gigabit and 10t network

Question about RCS files

2004-08-26 Thread K. Posern
-d $CVSROOT checkout sv; CVS update is done by: cd /SOMEWHERE/sv; cvs -d $CVSROOT update -dP; CVS commit is done by: cd /SOMEWHERE/sv; cvs -d $CVSROOT commit; I describe all this because I dunno if you might need this information to answer me the following question: I

Re: Question about RCS files

2004-08-26 Thread Brian Gough
K. Posern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I need an exact copy of the version a CLIENT has in its /SOMEWHERE/sv dir on the SERVER (so without the rcs stuff). How can I achieve this? Do I have to to do an cvs-checkout on the server and cvs-update everytime a client did commit something? Or

Re: Question about RCS files

2004-08-26 Thread Arno Schuring
/SOMEWHERE/sv; cvs -d $CVSROOT commit; cvs -d $CVSROOT makes little sense... cvs uses $CVSROOT by default I describe all this because I dunno if you might need this information to answer me the following question: I thought that the CVS-Tree LOCAL and on the SERVER are IDENTICAL (after I did

Re: Question about RCS files

2004-08-26 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:20:14PM +0200 K. Posern wrote: But I need an exact copy of the version a CLIENT has in its /SOMEWHERE/sv dir on the SERVER (so without the rcs stuff). Have a look at C.3.5.2 of your manual:

Question about process scheduleing

2004-08-26 Thread Lynch, Harold
Title: Question about process scheduleing I'm trying to look into a problem with the amount of time it takes us to do a checkout of a large (800 meg) module. On most of the machine in the shop it takes between 10 and 15 minutes, on one machine it can take an hour. When I look at top

Re: Question about RCS files

2004-08-26 Thread Andrew Thomas
K. Posern wrote: But I need an exact copy of the version a CLIENT has in its /SOMEWHERE/sv dir on the SERVER (so without the rcs stuff). How can I achieve this? Do I have to to do an cvs-checkout on the server and cvs-update everytime a client did commit something? Or can I say to the server

Re: Question about process scheduleing

2004-08-26 Thread Andrew Thomas
Lynch, Harold wrote: I'm trying to look into a problem with the amount of time it takes us to do a checkout of a large (800 meg) module. On most of the machine in the shop it takes between 10 and 15 minutes, on one machine it can take an hour. When I look at top on the cvs server, the process

Re: Question about process scheduleing

2004-08-26 Thread Todd Denniston
Lynch, Harold wrote: I'm trying to look into a problem with the amount of time it takes us to do a checkout of a large (800 meg) module. On most of the machine in the shop it takes between 10 and 15 minutes, on one machine it can take an hour. When I look at top on the cvs server, the

Re: Question about process scheduleing

2004-08-26 Thread Larry Jones
Lynch, Harold writes: On most of the machine in the shop it takes between 10 and 15 minutes, on one machine it can take an hour. Look for network problems with that machine -- that sounds like dropped packets and retransmissions. -Larry Jones Yep, we'd probably be dead by now if it wasn't

Re: WinCvs status window question

2004-08-13 Thread Murrgon
Menu-View-Output John E wrote: Just a clarification, I refereing to the output window when I said status window. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

WinCvs status window question

2004-08-12 Thread John E
On my all but one of my Windows machines I can see the docked status window. On one, I cannot. How do you make this window visible? Thanks ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

WinCvs status window question

2004-08-12 Thread John E
Just a clarification, I refereing to the output window when I said status window. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

commitinfo file question

2004-08-05 Thread Tennis Smith
Hi I have a question concerning commitinfo and project standards. Is it possible to run an app (called by commitinfo) against a particular file in a specific sandbox at commit time? I'm trying to prototype a stylechecker and don't want anyone but myself affected initially. If this is possible

Re: commitinfo file question

2004-08-05 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 12:41 PM 8/5/2004, Tennis Smith wrote: I have a question concerning commitinfo and project standards. Is it possible to run an app (called by commitinfo) against a particular file in a specific sandbox at commit time? I'm trying to prototype a stylechecker and don't want anyone but myself

Re: commitinfo file question

2004-08-05 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 12:53 PM 8/5/2004, Frederic Brehm wrote: It's probably easiest to create a new temporary and test your commitinfo script in there. That should be a new temporary REPOSITORY Sorry, Fred ___ Frederic W. Brehm, Sarnoff Corporation,

Re: commitinfo file question

2004-08-05 Thread Tennis Smith
Frederic Brehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:41 PM 8/5/2004, Tennis Smith wrote: I have a question concerning commitinfo and project standards. Is it possible to run an app (called by commitinfo) against a particular file in a specific sandbox at commit time

Update Question

2004-08-05 Thread Tennis Smith
Hi, I have a single file that's pivital to a project. Any time that file is updated, we need to do a re-compile of the components dependent on it. Is there any way to automatically drive the recompilation when the user does a cvs update on that central file? Any examples are welcome too. ;-)

Re: Update Question

2004-08-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The most obvious suggestion to me is add a dependency rule to your makefile for this file that executes a cvs update important_file.c command. That way any time you do a make on the project, the critical file will be updated and recompiled if it has changed. For this to be useful, you must be

Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP
When I do a cvs import of a new vendor version the new files become the head revision. I'd like to do the import such that it doesn't affect HEAD. Only after I've tested the new stuff I want it to become HEAD. Of course, it should work with local changes merged in just like the standard way of

Re: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Rohan Nandode
I had same problem some time back but don't have any solution to it.. you can go through http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-02/msg00077.html -Rohan Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP wrote: When I do a cvs import of a new vendor version the new files become the head revision. I'd like to do

Re: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Larry Jones
Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP writes: When I do a cvs import of a new vendor version the new files become the head revision. I'd like to do the import such that it doesn't affect HEAD. Only after I've tested the new stuff I want it to become HEAD. Of course, it should work with local changes

RE: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Christopher.Fouts
Test BEFORE importing! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Larry Jones Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:12 AM To: Lemke,Michael IZ/HZA-IOP Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Import question Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP writes: When I

RE: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP
From: Christopher.Fouts Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Import question Test BEFORE importing! Sure but I need the merge of the local changes. But I can't get them without the import or can I? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Christopher.Fouts
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Import question From: Christopher.Fouts Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Import question Test BEFORE

RE: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP
-Original Message- From: Christopher.Fouts Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:43 PM Subject: RE: Import question Can you export (not check out) the latest files you need from a current vendor branch, which should contain the changes you want (correct), add (not cvs add) your new

Re: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I do a cvs import of a new vendor version the new files become the head revision. I'd like to do the import such that it doesn't affect HEAD. Only after I've tested the new stuff I want it

RE: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP
From: Mark D. Baushke Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:16 PM To: Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Import question -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP writes: When I do a cvs import of a new vendor version the new

Re: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, this whole thing makes me realize I don't really understand vendor branches. What's different from ordinary ones? The vendor branch more closely models the RCS branching model. The

Re: Import question

2004-07-22 Thread Pierre Asselin
Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I do a cvs import of a new vendor version the new files become the head revision. I'd like to do the import such that it doesn't affect HEAD. Only after I've tested the new stuff I want it to become HEAD. Of course, it should work with

Commit and Add Question.

2004-07-13 Thread Hon Seng Phuah
Hi all, I want to some operations after commit process is done. If I invoke cvs add, I do not do anything. Currently, I add the operation in loginfo file but my operations will get trigger if I run cvs commit or add. If I just want to trigger my operation once the cvs commit is done, how to do

Re: Commit and Add Question.

2004-07-13 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hon Seng Phuah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to some operations after commit process is done. If I invoke cvs add, I do not do anything. Currently, I add the operation in loginfo file but my operations will get trigger if I run cvs commit or

Diff question

2004-06-29 Thread Emmanuel STAPF [ES]
How can I perform a diff between 2 dates in a given branch? I was hoping something like Branch:Date would work the same way it does for the `cvs up -j' option, but it is not recognized? Anything I'm missing? Manu PS: I'm using the client cvs 1.10.5

Check out question.

2004-06-29 Thread Hon Seng Phuah
My question is: I have four subdirectories in a CVS repository, such as: +-a |--b |--c |--d If the a/b/c module contains a few files. If I want to add new module using an empty hard drive, I will have to invoke cvs co a/b/c first. Only then I invoke cvs add directory command

Re: Check out question.

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Hon Seng Phuah writes: Unfortunately, by invoke checkout command, it will checkout all a/b/c module files into my new hard drive. Is there a way to prevent checking out all module files into my new hard drive? Use the -l option of checkout to prevent recursion. -Larry Jones I keep

RE: Cvs admin command question - using on files existing on branc h also

2004-06-23 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeeva Sarma writes: I have a question using cvs admin command to delete a revision of a file. If I deleted revision 1.7 of a file, which also exists on a branch at that revision, what will be the status of that file on the branch? A revision cannot

RE: branch removal question

2004-06-23 Thread Don Butts
Title: branch removal question I asked this question last Friday but got no response. Was it poorly asked, not enough information, too ignorant for words? If I need to supply more information please let me know, I would be glad to. Thanks, Don Butts -Original Message-From

RE: branch removal question

2004-06-23 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Don Butts wrote: I asked this question last Friday but got no response. Was it poorly asked, not enough information, too ignorant for words? How about, this requires a few more brain cycles than were available at the time? :=) -Original Message- We are using cvs

Re: branch removal question

2004-06-23 Thread Todd Denniston
not create preprod`date +%Y_%b_%d` branches when you want to go into QA, so you have all the information that lead up to each release. (next question is a more personal process, not general practice) and why are the production releases not just (normal) tags on the QA branch(es), where the QA people have

RE: branch removal question

2004-06-23 Thread Paul Sander
be forgotten. --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I asked this question last Friday but got no response. Was it poorly asked, not enough information, too ignorant for words? If I need to supply more information please let me know, I would be glad to. -Original Message- From: Don

RE: branch removal question

2004-06-23 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Butts wrote: I asked this question last Friday but got no response. Was it poorly asked, not enough information, too ignorant for words? I wouldn't remove the branches. I'm always reluctant to remove anything from the history. Instead

RE: branch removal question

2004-06-23 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Floating tags can also be used. For example, create a tag called PRODUCTION and apply it to the next release. Then just run cvs update in the production area, and the proper versions will appear. Yep, that's basically the idea I was trying to get across. The down

Cvs admin command question - using on files existing on branch also

2004-06-22 Thread Jeeva Sarma
I have a question using cvs admin command to delete a revision of a file. If I deleted revision 1.7 of a file, which also exists on a branch at that revision, what will be the status of that file on the branch? Some files exist on trunk and also branch, and we want to rollback some revisions

Re: Cvs admin command question - using on files existing on branch also

2004-06-22 Thread Larry Jones
Jeeva Sarma writes: I have a question using cvs admin command to delete a revision of a file. If I deleted revision 1.7 of a file, which also exists on a branch at that revision, what will be the status of that file on the branch? A revision cannot be on multiple branches. Revision 1.7

branch removal question

2004-06-18 Thread Don Butts
Title: branch removal question We are using cvs in somewhat of a non-standard way. We have a production cut of our compiled source that we deploy via cvs using a production branch. The application does not mind the fact the CVS control files co-exist within the source and the application

Re: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-17 Thread Bret A Cooper
:17:10 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: newbie question on initializing repository To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this case, I'd import a blank project, and then use cvs add in a script to add the files, using the -kb option accordingly. Here's a c-shell pseudo-code # Assume *.h and *.cpp

View List of CVS Tags (basic question)

2004-06-14 Thread Iain Freeston
Hello, I wonder if anyone can help me. I am after a list of Tags made in CVS. Looking at the documentation I got the impression I should be viewing the Taginfo file, but it doesn't give me the information that I want. Can anyone help me please because I think I am well off the mark at the

Re: View List of CVS Tags (basic question)

2004-06-14 Thread Brian Gough
Iain Freeston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am after a list of Tags made in CVS. Looking at the documentation I got the impression I should be viewing the Taginfo file, but it doesn't give me the information that I want. A list of tag names is stored in the CVSROOT/val-tags file in the

RE: View List of CVS Tags (basic question)

2004-06-14 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Iain Freeston wrote: Hello, I wonder if anyone can help me. I am after a list of Tags made in CVS. Looking at the documentation I got the impression I should be viewing the Taginfo file, but it doesn't give me the information that I want. Can anyone help me please because I think I am

Re: View List of CVS Tags (basic question)

2004-06-14 Thread Larry Jones
Jim.Hyslop writes: Be aware that val-tags shows all the tags ever applied to any file in the repository No, it doesn't. It shows all the tags that have been used to *retrieve* files from the repository since the val-tags file was created. It's just an optimization -- you can delete it at

Re: View List of CVS Tags (basic question)

2004-06-14 Thread Larry Jones
Brian Gough writes: A list of tag names is stored in the CVSROOT/val-tags file in the repository. But it's not complete. It's just a cache for optimization purposes. -Larry Jones Everything's gotta have rules, rules, rules! -- Calvin ___

Re: View List of CVS Tags (basic question)

2004-06-14 Thread Larry Jones
Iain Freeston writes: I am after a list of Tags made in CVS. Tags are kept in the individual RCS files, there's no central database of them. You can find the tags on a particular file with the log command or with status -v. -Larry Jones I stand FIRM in my belief of what's right! I REFUSE

newbie question: CVS server upgrade

2004-06-10 Thread mark hanna
Hello everyone, I am reasonably new to CVS and am looking for some tips/handy hints for upgrading the CVS server. can anybody give me any help or advice please ? my OS is : SunOS xultra1 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2System = SunOS Node = xultra1 Release = 5.8 Thanks in

Re: newbie question: CVS server upgrade

2004-06-10 Thread Alex v . Below
Download the latest source, unpack it, cd into the directory: ./configure make su make install (Some systems allow sudo make install) HTH Alex Am 10.06.2004 um 12:16 schrieb mark hanna: Hello everyone, I am reasonably new to CVS and am looking for some tips/handy hints for upgrading the CVS

Re: newbie question: CVS server upgrade

2004-06-10 Thread Larry Jones
Alex v.Below writes: Download the latest source, unpack it, cd into the directory: ./configure make su make install cvs init It hasn't been strictly required so far, but it's a good idea. It gives the new CVS a chance to update the existing repository should the format change, add new

Re: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-08 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:34:02PM -0400 Larry Jones wrote: However, I now believe its not that simple, as the binary files(only) must be initialized with the -kb option. Is that correct? If so, any suggestions on the simplest/easiest to go about this? If you can distinguish

newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-07 Thread Bret A Cooper
Hello, This is a first time user question. We have collected all of our source files within a directory structure and are ready to initialize the cvs repository. There are a couple thousand files. Roughly 20% are binary type files and are scattered around throughout various directories. My

RE: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-07 Thread Christopher.Fouts
ion though -chris -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bret A CooperSent: Monday, June 07, 2004 4:47 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: newbie question on initializing repositoryHello, This is a first time user question. We have

Re: newbie question on initializing repository

2004-06-07 Thread Larry Jones
Bret A Cooper writes: My original plan was to run the cvs init command from the topmost directory and be done. I think you mean cvs import -- init just creates a repository, it does not populate it with user files. However, I now believe its not that simple, as the binary files(only) must

basic question

2004-06-03 Thread Jean LEE
Hello, I'm new to CVS andI would like to install a cvs server on a linux worksation and a cvs client on a WinXP workstation. I would like to access the cvsserver with a secure protocol. What are the tools (cvs, wincvs, cvsnt, ...) and protocol (gserver, ssh,...) which are required or best

Fwd: basic question

2004-06-03 Thread Alex v . Below
with an ssh tunnel. The archives of this group should give you ample info on this. As to anonymous read access, I pass the question to the rest of the group. I have no experience with this as it is none of my requirements. HTH Alex Am 03.06.2004 um 14:09 schrieb Jean LEE: Hello,   I'm new to CVS and I

Version numbers question

2004-06-03 Thread Mala T
? will it ever be 2.1 and so on without our explicitly making it so using the -r on check-in? And I have a question about 2 files that are on the same branch and have logs as below RCS file: /cvsrep/cvsroot/OP/op/asos/src/java/com

Re: Version numbers question

2004-06-03 Thread Larry Jones
Mala T writes: I have 2 questions about version numbers. First, is there any limit on the number of versions we can have for a file in cvs? Only the maximum value of an integer on your system and the amount of disk space you have available to hole the repository. will it ever be 2.1 and so

Re: Fwd: basic question

2004-06-03 Thread Larry Jones
Alex v.Below writes: If you need to control read/write permissions, I suggest a pserver combined with an ssh tunnel. There's usually no need for such complication, just use pure ssh with normal OS permissions to control access. -Larry Jones What a waste to be going to school on a morning

Branch/merge question....

2004-06-01 Thread Urban Gabor
Hi, I have a rather specific issue here: Suppose we have created a branch for a development in our module called branch_A for a longer time. During the development we have decided to intagrate all changes on the main branch into branch_A (and we have tagged both the main/HEAD and the branch).

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