RE: Can cvs support distributed development usage.

2001-09-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 11:34:11 (+0800), Yi Zhou (RD-CN) wrote: ] Subject: RE: Can cvs support distributed development usage. As u say , CVSup is not good enough to implment sync function, can u recommend me another strong tool? CVSup is by far the most powerful tool possible of

Re: Can cvs support distributed development usage.

2001-09-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, September 17, 2001 at 22:52:29 (-0700), Mike Castle wrote: ] Subject: Re: Can cvs support distributed development usage. One thing that I often do is keep a local copy of a working area checked out somewhere, and when I want to start a new sandbox, instead of do a checkout, I

how to get detailed information about cvs client/server protocol

2001-09-18 Thread Günter Zöchbauer
I read the documentation shipped with cvs which gives a short description about all commands but no information about what to do with the entire set of response lines (as an example). Are there any other source of information like docs or specific newsgroups about this topic.

Re: creating a new module from existing checkout

2001-09-18 Thread Alexander Welti
ok thanks alex Larry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Alexander Welti writes: can i go to the checkout dir and say cvs import bla ... Yes. or do i have to delete all the CVS dirs in every dir of the checkout first? You don't have to -- CVS will

Re: Can cvs support distributed development usage.

2001-09-18 Thread christian liesch
Yi Zhou (RD-CN) wrote: Hello, I'm the new user of CVS and I have a question. Can cvs support distributed development usage? That is to say, if we have four CVS server, located in different place. But they are all used for just one project developing, each server stores different source

More than 3 repositories on one server

2001-09-18 Thread Heirler Stefan
Hi, I want to setup more than 3 repositories in inetd.conf. Adding the 4th repository I loose connection to all other repositories. The syntax of cvspserver in inetd.conf is correct and I'm able to exchange the repository entries in inetd.conf but more than 3 repositories at the same time is not

Re: More than 3 repositories on one server

2001-09-18 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
There could be a limitation on how long the command line can be. Write a wrapper script which invokes the cvs server with necessary arguments and then invoke the script from inetd. Thanks Shubho -Original Message- From: Heirler Stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL

Re: about cvs time

2001-09-18 Thread Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ
Hi, Larry: Larry Jones wrote: casper writes: When I use cvs, the update time is not my system time. How this happen,and how to resolve it. What do you mean by the update time? CVS uses UTC (aka GMT) internally and usually displays times that way. Correctly converting to local

renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs

2001-09-18 Thread Alexander Welti
hi! i would like to rename a directory (containing tons of subdirs and files) in my checkout and have that change applied to the repository. can i simply rename the dir; check it in (is there a recursive cvs add by the way?) and remove the dir in the repository (how? reqursively?) thanks, alex

Re: renaming a directory in the checkout / recursive add and commit for all subdirs

2001-09-18 Thread John Minnihan
This silly little batch file (it's showing its age) does the recursive add trick: == @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL REM Set up a string that specifies all files we want to check in SET cvs_add_list=*.cpp,*.c,*.pl,*.html,*.xml,*.txt,*.java,*.pm :parse_options if NOT %1==/? goto

0D0A = 0A = 0D0A

2001-09-18 Thread René Schade
Hi, We are running a CVS server on our Win 2000 server and two people are using it. One of us is using cvs (from cygwin) and bash to update files. The other is using cvs (form cygwin) and DOS to update files. We both use Emacs 20.6.1. When the bash user creates a new file using Emacs it

cvs passwd patch

2001-09-18 Thread P.V.Sridhar Reddy
hi, where can i get CVS passwd patch for version 1.11 Thanks ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

user names gets the first the characters chopped off

2001-09-18 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
Hi, Our CVS installation at cvs.perl.org is slightly broken. I am using the CVS that comes with the latest FreeBSD (--version says 1.11) plus the attached patch. Some users (3 out of 7) gets (once in a while) the first two characters of their username shopped out. The CVS_USER_NAME variable

Re: Keeping different platforms in sync?

2001-09-18 Thread Kaz Kylheku
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen Jowitt wrote: We develop for Windows and Linux and both systems share source code from the same repository. Our developers would like to be able to do the following: 1) Write code on windows machine. Compile and test. 2) Compile and test the same code

lock in problem

2001-09-18 Thread hemkumar balla
Hi, I am working on the cvs repository. I don’t know what happened to one of the directory in cvs, it is giving the following message when i am trying to tag or using admin command etc. cvs admin: [13:25:53] waiting for hemkumar's lock in /home/cvsroot/sample Can any one help me how to ratify

cvs update with a tag

2001-09-18 Thread Kostur, Andre
Title: cvs update with a tag There seems to be an oddity when updating with a tag (in my case, branch). Let's presume that I have a directory of 40 files, only 5 of which are on a branch. If I do: cvs update -f -r Branch to update all files from the repository, the 5 on the branch being at

Re: Keeping different platforms in sync?

2001-09-18 Thread Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ
Hi, Stephen: Stephen Jowitt wrote: Hi, We're currently using cvs and I have to investigate how we can best keep our source code in sync on both the platforms used by the developers. We develop for Windows and Linux and both systems share source code from the same repository. Our

Re: cvs update with a tag

2001-09-18 Thread Kaz Kylheku
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kostur, Andre wrote: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_001_01C1406E.4134E3D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 There seems to

Re: 0D0A = 0A = 0D0A

2001-09-18 Thread Andrew Johnson
René Schade wrote: We are running a CVS server on our Win 2000 server and two people are using it. One of us is using cvs (from cygwin) and bash to update files. The other is using cvs (form cygwin) and DOS to update files. Are you using exactly the same version of cvs/cygwin with the

Re: Keeping different platforms in sync?

2001-09-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 09:30:25 (-0700), Thomas S. Urban wrote: ] Subject: Re: Keeping different platforms in sync? Have you looked at 'rsync'? CVSup is basically the rsync algorithms combined with deep knowledge of the structure of a CVS repository. --

Re: lock in problem

2001-09-18 Thread David Taylor
Either : 1 - you have another CVS process running or 2 - a previous process was terminated in a way that didn't allow it to clean up the lock file. Use 'ps' or similar to determine if you're in Case #1. If no process is found, you're in Case #2, and removing /home/cvsroot/sample/#cvs.* should

Re: lock in problem

2001-09-18 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:56:53AM -0700, hemkumar balla wrote: cvs admin: [13:25:53] waiting for hemkumar's lock in /home/cvsroot/sample Go to a search engine, like, say google.com and try the following: info-cvs waiting for lock in One promising result was:

Re: Keeping different platforms in sync?

2001-09-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 15:58:38 (+0100), Stephen Jowitt wrote: ] Subject: Keeping different platforms in sync? We develop for Windows and Linux and both systems share source code from the same repository. Our developers would like to be able to do the following: 1) Write

Re: cvs and gnats link?

2001-09-18 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
If we keep the cvs and bug tracking seperate, my life and the lives of the engineers will be more complicated when what we want in convenience. . We will have to place comments in cvs and in the bug tracking system independently. . When management wants a report, they want a 1:1

RE: 0D0A = 0A = 0D0A

2001-09-18 Thread Jimmy Rimmer
That's the real problem. Windows' RSH does CR/LF translation, and the Cygwin RSH doesn't. The key is to make sure both users use the same version of rsh.exe by either defining the CVS_RSH variable (I don't know if this works), or by renaming/moving the inappropriate RSH.EXE.

RE: RCS file - invalid change in text error

2001-09-18 Thread Joseph Natar
Title: RE: RCS file - invalid change in text error Hi: This is what I found now. The corrupt version of the file is 1.6 [cvsdev] jnatar ~/tmp/public_html/ cvs up -r 1.6 CWSDVAddCategoryForm2.htt cvs [server aborted]: invalid change text in /cvs/public_html/CWSDVAddCategoryForm2.htt,v

newbie question

2001-09-18 Thread r w
Hello all, Im not on the list so please cc me on the answer. Im configuring cvs on AIX 4.3.3 and im having a bit of difficulty with adding my first module. TRIDEVL:root:/cvs add f cvs add: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs [add aborted]: no repository who/what

RE: CVS newbie setup questions

2001-09-18 Thread Charlie Wu
I'm trying to install cvs on solaris2.7 and am not able to get a file into my repository.. I'm pasting the script here.. can someone help? Thanks Charlie Script started on Tue Sep 18 14:02:39 2001 cwu@pepsi{/users/home11/cwu}: echo $CVSROOT /users/home11/cwu/junk cwu@pepsi{/users/home11/cwu}:

Re: cvs and gnats link?

2001-09-18 Thread John Minnihan
Another reader pointed to something called 'cvszilla'. If this works as indicated, it will glue Bugzilla and CVS together ...at the hip. I intend to test this app will be delighted if it functions as noted. I was about to go down that path myself (writing such a tool). [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: cvs and gnats link?

2001-09-18 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
On the down side, it's a beta and it says it connects with cvsweb, any idea how that differs from connecting with CVS? Just because it says it works with CVSweb does not imply it will work with CVS. CVS works here just find but I was never able to get cvsweb to work here. I went over to

Re: Adding description within changed files

2001-09-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:57:04PM +0200, Frank Thrum ( DAT TEC TI ) wrote: Christian Gudrian wrote: Right. But this sets the description [of what changed] right at the time of committing. I would like to embed this description within the files itself using special commands like $Id$

Re: 0D0A = 0A = 0D0A

2001-09-18 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:15:01PM -0700, Jimmy Rimmer wrote: That's the real problem. Windows' RSH does CR/LF translation, and the Cygwin RSH doesn't. The key is to make sure both users use the same version of rsh.exe by either defining the CVS_RSH variable (I don't know if this works), or

Re: [Freepos-cvs] RE: cvs and gnats link?

2001-09-18 Thread John Minnihan
Actually, it looks like it would work just fine w/ CVS standalone. Maybe a deeper connection to CVSWeb will become apparent later, but for now... this looks pretty promising. It seems to be performing a straight-forward post into Bugzilla'a MySQL database using a loginfo call out to a

Re: CVS newbie setup questions

2001-09-18 Thread David Taylor
Rather than attempt to explain the cause of each error message, the type of errors suggest to me that it would be more helpful to point you to tutorials providing a general overview of the steps for working with CVS: http://www.arc.unm.edu/~rsahu/cvs.html#Brief Most concise, but it has the

RE: CVS newbie setup questions

2001-09-18 Thread Charlie Wu
Title: Hi David:I've gone through most online manuals.. including the verbose one you suggested below.. but despite reading all these *fine* manuals, I am still getting nowhere.I installed CVS, set my env variable, did the init, then what? The manual said:

Re: cvs and gnats link?

2001-09-18 Thread Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ
Hi, Kaz: Kaz Kylheku wrote: [...] tracking system. I've been looking at GNATS and would like to know if CVS and GNATS can be linked. From a developer standpoint, it would be most convenient and less error prone to type the same information once rather than twice. What would you ever

CVS and Bugzilla, was: cvs and gnats link?

2001-09-18 Thread Ellison, Martin [IT]
cvszilla works with CVS directly. To be exact, cvszilla is made up of two parts: - some loginfo scripts that write to the bugzilla database. - some CGI scripts that provide some reports from the bugzilla database (links to CVSWeb if you have it installed). cvszilla (1.0 beta 1) doesn't work

Re: Using network shares as sandboxes

2001-09-18 Thread Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ
Hi, Eric: Eric Siegerman wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:30:50AM -0700, brent wrote: I have been informed that there are 'a thousand reasons' why not to use network shares as sandboxes with CVS. The problem is different from the one with a remote-mounted repo, where one risks repo

Re: CVS newbie setup questions

2001-09-18 Thread David Taylor
Charlie Wu wrote: Hi David: I've gone through most online manuals.. including the verbose one you suggested below.. but despite reading all these *fine* manuals, I am still getting nowhere. I installed CVS, set my env variable, did the init, then what? The manual said:

RE: CVS newbie setup questions

2001-09-18 Thread Charlie Wu
Hi all: Thank you all for your kind help.. I've finally got this to work. For other newbies on the list.. here's the answer and what I expect to see in a Dummy's guide to CVS 1. Download and install CVS 2. set the CVSROOT environment variable 3. run cvs init to create a repository 4. this is

Locking Branches in cvs

2001-09-18 Thread Joseph Natar
Title: Locking Branches in cvs Hi: Is there any way we can just lock one branch and leave the rest of the repository open to others. Thanks joe

no such internal variable $CVS_USER

2001-09-18 Thread Ellison, Martin [IT]
According to the Cederqvist (C.12), there is an internal variable CVS_USER that contains the userid as login by the user. But when I use this in a loginfo script I get this message: cvs server: loginfo:29: no such internal variable $CVS_USER Is this a defect in the code or in the

Re: Keeping different platforms in sync?

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:58:38PM +0100, Stephen Jowitt wrote: This would be easy to do if the developers committed the source in between stages 1 and 2, but they don't want to do that as it is a busy tree and would break others' builds. This IS

Re: no such internal variable $CVS_USER

2001-09-18 Thread Shubhabrata Sengupta
I though it was the USER variable which had the userid. Shubho -Original Message- From: Ellison, Martin [IT] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:57 AM Subject: no such internal variable $CVS_USER According to the Cederqvist

RE: no such internal variable $CVS_USER

2001-09-18 Thread Ellison, Martin [IT]
The manual does say that there is also a CVS_USER variable. As it is, $USER actually does contain the login userid, which is what I wanted... (this is with Corey's patch admittedly). So don't worry about this. I though it was the USER variable which had the userid. According to the Cederqvist

can any one help me in setting the rights to users at module and sub-module level?

2001-09-18 Thread Lokeswara Reddy
Title: can any one help me in setting the rights to users at module and sub-module level? hai, I installed cvsnt1.11 server in NT machine and wincvs1.2 in windows 98/NT machines with pserver mode. Now, I want to set rights for individual users at module and sub-module levels. How do I get

XML namespace for CVS keywords

2001-09-18 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, Derek Price, the cvshome.org webmaster, suggested I mail these lists with this suggestion. I'm not on the lists, so I'd appreciate cc's of replies. Thanks. Anyway; Working on the FreeBSD documentation and website we currently embed various CVS keywords around the text to show things