Re: CVS File Locking

2000-02-17 Thread Frode Nilsen
Tobias Weingartner wrote: On Wednesday, February 16, Frode Nilsen wrote: There are two situations that makes this "mess". 1. The developers are situated at different sites, working at different times etc. I've worked with people on projects all over the world. This has *never* been a

Re: Blinded by philosophy (kinda long)

2000-02-17 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 03:10:02 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: Blinded by philosophy (kinda long) The analogy I would use rather than find/grep is more like cmp/comm/diff/diff3. These all do similar tasks, but in different

RE: numeric sticky tag

2000-02-17 Thread Carlos Arturo Quiroga
You can use cvs update -A The -A option retrieves the version of the file from the head of the trunk, and forgets any sticky tags, dates, or options. -Mensaje original- De: Carlos Arturo Quiroga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: MiƩrcoles, 16 de Febrero de 2000 06:33 p.m. Asunto: numeric sticky

Questions about CVS

2000-02-17 Thread RonPetersen
I am trying to find out if CVS can do the following: 1. Does it support COBOL/370 and Assembler source code? 2. Are there any limitations to the number of developers that can be making changes to a program concurrently? 3. Is there a mainframe interface to Panvalet? 4. Is there a

cvs add *

2000-02-17 Thread Alex Chaffee
I'm afraid to bring up a new thread involving "cvs add." Please don't anyone start saying mean things about my family, OK? I just had the experience of bringing a large set of Java source files under CVS revision control. I couldn't use "cvs import" because they had a lot of overlapping

Re: Questions about CVS

2000-02-17 Thread Donald Sharp
Ron - You might want to spend a afternoon reading the cvs manual that comes with the distribution. It answers all your questions that you are asking On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 03:48:33PM +0100, Frode Nilsen wrote: Ron Petersen wrote: I am trying to find out if CVS can do the

cvsignore problem

2000-02-17 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
I'm getting the following message when I try to checkout: cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied The obvious question is why is it searching in /root? I do not have any environment variables for CVS set to /root.

Re: Moving imported HEAD from vendor branch to trunk

2000-02-17 Thread Larry Jones
David Martin writes: I'm trying to use cvs import to bring an existing directory tree into CVS (without the particular need to subsequently maintain that code on the import's vendor branch). Per documentation, the vendor branch is made the "HEAD" revision, but I really want the trunk

Re: CVS File Locking

2000-02-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, February 17, 2000 at 08:35:41 (+0100), Frode Nilsen wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS File Locking If you think communication will solve this, why do you use a concurrent version control system at all ? It is design to let you forget about communication ! Because just as Berliner and

RE: let's all take turns ranting

2000-02-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 21:22:22 (-0800), Jerry Nairn wrote: ] Subject: RE: let's all take turns ranting There it is. And the three supporting statements are true. The flaw in this logic is that statements 1 and 3 depend on different definitions of "cvs managed directory." They

Re: cvs history command?

2000-02-17 Thread Larry Jones
|}avid writes: cvs history blah.c spits out HUGE amounts of info on millions of files, not just on blah.c as I would expect. Therefore in 'cvs history [options] files...' 'files' doesn't refer tot he same thing it does in other commands. Yes it does. The confusion is that history,

Re: Files Created After Installation

2000-02-17 Thread Larry Jones
Richard Goh Muk Ling writes: So, now my question to this discussin group is after all the installation steps: 1) ./config --prefix=/usr, 2) make and 3) make install. The installation process generated lots of files in my installation directory (says i install cvs from /home/user1/cvs-1.10.8

Re: OK, Remove the locks then...

2000-02-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 22:11:48 (-0800), Terris wrote: ] Subject: Re: OK, Remove the locks then... The argument which goes like this: "hey if you want locking use another product..." Doesn't fit the requirement for a centralized repository for source code and web content.

Re: using an interactive commitinfo script

2000-02-17 Thread Larry Jones
Stephane Picard writes [about a commitinfo script]: With what can I replace my "$answer = STDIN" to let it work remotely ? You can't. When you're running client/server, all info scripts are run on the server, so there's no way to interact with the user on the client system. Sorry. -Larry

Re: Files Created After Installation

2000-02-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 20:34:21 (-0800), Richard Goh Muk Ling wrote: ] Subject: Files Created After Installation So, now my question to this discussin group is after all the installation steps: 1) ./config --prefix=/usr, 2) make and 3) make install. The installation process

Re: cvs add *

2000-02-17 Thread John Macdonald
Alex Chaffee wrote : || I'm afraid to bring up a new thread involving "cvs add." Please don't || anyone start saying mean things about my family, OK? || || I just had the experience of bringing a large set of Java source files || under CVS revision control. I couldn't use "cvs import" because

Re: CVS File Locking

2000-02-17 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, February 17, Frode Nilsen wrote: Tobias Weingartner wrote: On Wednesday, February 16, Frode Nilsen wrote: There are two situations that makes this "mess". 1. The developers are situated at different sites, working at different times etc. I've worked with people on

Re: cvs add *

2000-02-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, February 17, 2000 at 06:56:39 (-0800), Alex Chaffee wrote: ] Subject: cvs add * I'm afraid to bring up a new thread involving "cvs add." Please don't anyone start saying mean things about my family, OK? OK! :-) Are there any special reasons why "cvs add" aborts for extant

RE: Anonymity of trunk and merges

2000-02-17 Thread Cameron, Steve
Sankaranarayanan K V wrote: Hi, (1) How do I refer to the trunk in commands like cvs update -j branch cvs diff -r branch where branch can be either a proper branch or the trunk itself. (2) What exactly does HEAD mean? Is it the head revision of the trunk or of the sand

Re: Files Created After Installation

2000-02-17 Thread David Thornley
"Greg A. Woods" wrote: [ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 20:34:21 (-0800), Richard Goh Muk Ling wrote: ] Subject: Files Created After Installation directory), so I was wondering after the installation do I need to remove that directory. Yes, you may remove the "source" directory

cannot login to server

2000-02-17 Thread David Schumann
i have installed cvs as a server via inetd on my system: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root/usr/bin/cvs cvs -f --allow-root=/usr/local/src/cvs pserver is my inetd.conf entry i also have created a passwd file with htpasswd -c passwd username in the CVSROOT directory. but still i

RE: Configuring WinCVS

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Cameron
On Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:42 PM, Animesh Das [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hello all, We have a single server stores the CVS items for our project(A) as well as another(B). Project B is already using WinCVS as the front end. We too decided to use WinCVS for project A. But we found

RE: cvsignore problem

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Cameron
On Friday, February 18, 2000 5:30 AM, Jiann-Ming Su [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm getting the following message when I try to checkout: cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied The obvious question is why

Re: Configuring WinCVS

2000-02-17 Thread Donald Sharp
Actually there are multiple solutions to this problem. 1) specify more than one --allow-root command line option within the inetd.conf file. 2) Move the seperate repositories into one repository and use modules to force people to use the correct project. donald On Thu, Feb

Re: CVS File Locking

2000-02-17 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.02.16 07:25:17 Whoa. You just said that if I want to use CVS with unmergeable files, then I must supply a merge tool for them. The trouble is that no merge tool can be implemented for unmergeable files, by definition. So I'm

Re: CVS File Locking

2000-02-17 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, February 17, Paul Sander wrote: I postulate that there are file formats for which no merge tool is possible. Hence, there will never be any working merge tool available for some files. Aiee, therein is the rub. (I make a horrible scott, but I try) You'd have to define "merge",

Strategy for CVS Dreamweaver

2000-02-17 Thread Hal Wine
We'd like to use CVS with projects being developed with Dreamweaver (an HTML editor from Macromedia -- runs on Mac Windows OS's). Our server is on Solaris, and developers use either WinCVS or MacCVS on their desktops. The salient point is that Dreamweaver has a notion of "templates" (which

Re: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially?

2000-02-17 Thread |}avid (opeland
The difference I have is subtle. Most everyone on the list defines tagging a file as indicating which files you want to group into a release. I define tagging a file as indicating which revisions of files you want to group into a release. By tagging a dead revision, I am saying "Include the

Re: CVS File Locking

2000-02-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, February 17, 2000 at 16:18:42 (-0700), Tobias Weingartner wrote: ] Subject: Re: CVS File Locking Aiee, therein is the rub. (I make a horrible scott, but I try) You'd have to define "merge", for the above to make sense. I can merge any three files. Simply concatenate them,

Re: removing the need for cvs add file to contact the server....

2000-02-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, February 17, 2000 at 17:42:28 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ] Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server This is fine by me. Again, note that the above doesn't mention "cvs add empty-hier" at all. I'm not sure what you're getting at by that.

Re: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially?

2000-02-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, February 17, 2000 at 18:53:05 (-0800), |}avid (opeland wrote: ] Subject: Re: Why does CVS treat removed files so specially? The difference I have is subtle. Most everyone on the list defines tagging a file as indicating which files you want to group into a release. No,

Re: pvcs_to_rcs conversion script

2000-02-17 Thread David L. Martin
Hello Davin, Can someone please tell me where I can find the PVCS to RCS conversion script. The documentation states that you can find the script in the contrib directory of the sounds, bit its not there. I searched the Internet for this script with no luck The pvcs_to_rcs script was removed