Re: Base directory, in CVS directory

2000-04-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, April 3, 2000 at 15:43:43 (CST), Win32 M$ wrote: ] Subject: Base directory, in CVS directory That is a great feature, but the problem is that it is the copy with the exact same name as an original. Then, if I try to grep for the files recursively in some directory, I will get

Re: Importing of CVS sources question

2000-04-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, April 7, 2000 at 09:19:12 (-0400), Laird Nelson wrote: ] Subject: Importing of CVS sources question I started by importing cvs v1.10 lo these many months ago into our own CVS repository. Now I pulled down CVS v1.10.8 and imported that onto the vendor branch following the

Re: Group Work Area

2000-04-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, April 7, 2000 at 15:14:44 (-0500), Spencer Hansen - TXDC CAD wrote: ] Subject: Group Work Area For historical reason's I'm stuck in a situation where there is a single project directory in which multiple user's edit files. Part of the "deal"(/contract/agreement) you have to

Re: UNIX version doesn't handle ^M in Entries/Repository if DOS ver used

2000-04-08 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Friday, April 7, Stephen Rasku wrote: I don't think you understood what we are doing. We are checking out a directory on our Solaris box and then accessing the same directory from the Windows NT box via Samba. This allows us to compile on all platforms and only check in when it

Re: UNIX version doesn't handle ^M in Entries/Repository if DOS ver used

2000-04-08 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Friday, April 7, Pavel Roskin wrote: the UNIX version barfs because the DOS version leaves ^M cookies at the end of each line in CVS/Entries, CVS/Repository, CVS/Root I think that developers should not be encouraged to use "cvs commit" as way of transmitting files from one system to

CVS history command (cvsnt server)

2000-04-08 Thread Arthur Barrett
Using the history command of Tony Hoyle's CVS server for NT does not seem to return a result, and error or anything. eg: CVSROOT=:ntserver:ntsrvr01:c:\pserver\cvsroot cvs history cvs history -report -e The $CVSROOT/cvsroot/history file has lots of stuff... Our environment is: Win NT 4 SP4

Bad repository root 'c:\pserver\cvsroot' (WinCVS csv nt server)

2000-04-08 Thread Arthur Barrett
Does anyone have experience with this error? Our environment is: Win NT client Win NT server (Tony Hoyle's Windows NT/2000 cvs server at http://betty.magenta-logic.com/cvs latest download). WinCVS 1.1b12 CVSROOT=:ntserver:ntsrvr01:c:\pserver\cvsroot This error only occurs using WIn-CVS, it

Re: Base directory, in CVS directory

2000-04-08 Thread Win32 M$
Hi Noel, Short answer: Use "find ! -path '*/CVS/*'" (if you're using gnu find). Otherwise pipe the output of find through "grep -v '/CVS/' (you might have to backslash the '/'). ??? Answer to what question? I asked three: 1. Are there any other people with similiar opinion; 2. Are there any

Re: Cannot commit as root

2000-04-08 Thread Garry T. Williams
At 10:17 PM 4/5/00, Derek Scherger wrote: Gerhard Sittig wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 13:50 +0300, Marius Oancea wrote: Hello cvs expoerts, If I want to use cvs from my workstation ( and here I am root ) how can I commit then changes to the server? If I am a normal

Re: Base directory, in CVS directory

2000-04-08 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.04.08 20:11:12 But the long answer is interesting: Long answer: I've come to think that the Base subdirectory is a broken design. 1. The copy stored in Base isn't really the version that was originally checked out, it's the version existing at the time of "cvs edit".

Oldest CVS version to support remote repos

2000-04-08 Thread Michael Sokolov
Hi there, I wonder, what is the *oldest* version of CVS that supports remote repositories and where can I get it? TIA a lot. -- Michael Sokolov Harhan Engineering Laboratory Public Service AgentInternational Free Computing Task Force International Engineering

Re: Cannot commit as root

2000-04-08 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:48 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:13:44PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: [ ... cvs refuses to act on root's behalf ... ] There's something wrong in your enterprise. Go and read some basic doc about how to deal with priviledges! And don't

Re: Completely removing directories -- how?

2000-04-08 Thread Michael Gersten
Can a .cvsignore file be checked in? (And propagated to them the next time they do an update?) Best answer I've seen yet. Thanks. Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Also you should probably add a localized .cvsignore file to ignore the temporary build/output directories, in this situation (so they will

Re: UNIX version doesn't handle ^M in Entries/Repository if DOS ver used

2000-04-08 Thread David L. Martin
We also have an environment in which Unix home directories are accessed via Samba on NT, which is our platform for development. We use WinCVS 1.1b11 on NT with global Preferences set to checkout ASCII files with Unix LF termination (which applies to both checked out files and to CVS

Re: Completely removing directories -- how?

2000-04-08 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
- Original Message - From: "Michael Gersten" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Sean Cavanaugh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 8:35 PM Subject: Re: Completely removing directories -- how? Can a .cvsignore file be checked in? (And propagated to them the next

Re: UNIX version doesn't handle ^M in Entries/Repository if DOS ver used

2000-04-08 Thread Ian Darwin
As the person whose "bug report" sparked this controversy, I am amazed at what strong opinions and controversy a simple request to handle whitespace cleanly instead of on an ad-hoc basis has engendered. Therefore: I hereby withdraw my bug report so that everybody can get back to

Re: Cannot commit as root

2000-04-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Saturday, April 8, 2000 at 12:48:59 (+0200), Eivind Eklund wrote: ] Subject: Re: Cannot commit as root Seriously: There are cases where using CVS as root makes very good sense. For instance, at my employer, there are basically four roles we have for machines where it might be relevant

Re: Oldest CVS version to support remote repos

2000-04-08 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Saturday, April 8, 1900 at 12:41:00 (CDT), Michael Sokolov wrote: ] Subject: Oldest CVS version to support remote repos I wonder, what is the *oldest* version of CVS that supports remote repositories and where can I get it? TIA a lot. Properly? 1.10.8, and maybe not even that! ;-) --