Re: Using Clearcase functionality in CVS

2002-10-04 Thread jlcarpenter
For example, try implementing ClearCase' merge-arrow semantics. You must somehow combine a cvs tag, a cvs update with two -j options, the necessary user edits, a cvs commit and another cvs tag operation so that you can track the contributors to the merge and have a smarter computation of the

Re: Using Clearcase functionality in CVS

2002-10-04 Thread jlcarpenter
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Re: cvs import of (symbolically) linked files

2002-10-04 Thread Kaz Kylheku
Jayashree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello, Can I cvs import symbolically linked directories or linked files in a directory? Again, the answer is Meta-CVS, which handles symbolic links when you create a project from an existing directory tree, and when you

Re: attic files

2002-10-04 Thread Larry Jones
Schwenk, Jeanie writes: How can I retrieve a large quantity of Attic files? A vendor did a merge down the vendor branch and, as it turns out, did a reorganization of some files. The resulting commit moved many, many files in many directories into their respective attics. In the meantime,

Re: attic files

2002-10-04 Thread Kaz Kylheku
Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Arguably, adding years to the life of CVS is CVS-friendly enough. There are already enough architectural compromises in the software to make it easy to integrate with CVS. But how about a

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: New to CVS

2002-10-04 Thread Mike Ayers
Rob Beach wrote: As the subject says i'm new to CVS and from what I have read about it, it sounds really good. BUT I was wondering if it can handle excel .xls files ? and word .doc files the same way it can handle .txt files ? as I am Not exactly the same, but the same. When

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: Bug in CVS

2002-10-04 Thread Noel Yap
--- Anne McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We got an error after somebody deleted a file named e.g. 'data.txt' and tried to readd it as 'Data.txt'. It says cvs [server aborted]: received abort signal cvs: hash.c:312: findnode: Assertion `key != ((void *)0)' failed. This happened

Re: New to CVS

2002-10-04 Thread Noel Yap
--- Rob Beach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also there are people that need to just look at the spreadsheets to get data off them can you set it up so people can view the files but not edit them ? is there that sort of security on cvs ? CVS uses the server's file system permissioning. I believe

Re: Can I post a problem in this list?

2002-10-04 Thread Donald Sharp
yeppers. donald On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:21:45AM -0300, Alejandro Gmez wrote: I just send this mail because I have a problem setting cvs pserver. I´ve search the web and can´t find a way to make it work... Is this the list to discuss this kind of problem? TIA Alejandro Gómez IT

jar/exe files

2002-10-04 Thread Gunjan_Gupta
Ive been trying to import some jar and exe files in the cvs repository and the jar files are not getting imported correctly(the files that were close to 1.5 M) show up as 1K files. And the exe files dont show up at all. Is there a special switch/flag I need to use for jar files?

no such repository

2002-10-04 Thread Peter Parker
Hello, I am new to CVS and I am having some trouble connecting to my CVS server (red hat 7.2) from my client WinCVS. The error I get when I attempt to login is no such repository I've followed the directions from documentation online to configure the server/client, so I don't know what is

Re: no such repository

2002-10-04 Thread bollu
Hello, I am new to CVS and I am having some trouble connecting to my CVS server (red hat 7.2) from my client WinCVS. The error I get when I attempt to login is no such repository I've followed the directions from documentation online to configure the server/client, so I don't know what is

Re: no such repository

2002-10-04 Thread Alejandro Gómez
The error I get when I attempt to login is no such repository On the server my CVSROOT is /home/cvs and from the client I am trying to connect with :pserver:user@server:/home/cvs Any suggestions on what I should look for or try? Should I try re-initializing my repository? I'm not

Re: no such repository

2002-10-04 Thread bollu
Did you telnet'd your server? You should receive cvs [pserver aborted]:bad auth protocol start If not, you've got a problem in your inetd config. Cyr Yes I did do it on the server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to CVS and I am having some trouble connecting to my CVS server (red

Re: no such repository

2002-10-04 Thread Peter Parker
Yes I did do it on the server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to CVS and I am having some trouble connecting to my CVS server (red hat 7.2) from my client WinCVS. The error I get when I attempt to login is no such repository I've followed the directions from documentation online to

Re: Tags and Branches

2002-10-04 Thread Larry Jones
Tim Cook writes: I wanted to see what changes were made between each label so I attempted to get a specific release using cvs co -r blah00 ... and cvs co -r blah01 ... so I could do a comparison between them. It would be a lot simpler to use cvs diff with two -r options. What I

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: jar/exe files

2002-10-04 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; Please do not post MIME and/or HTML encrypted files to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! I've been trying to import some jar and exe files in the cvs repository and the jar files are not getting imported

Re: cvs wrappers

2002-10-04 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! but when I import the files all the files are imported except .exe files That's because .exe files are ignored by

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: Commit leaves files as read write, why not read only?

2002-10-04 Thread Karr, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Commit leaves files as read write, why not read only? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Is

Re: no such repository

2002-10-04 Thread Alejandro Gómez
Peter Parker writes: The error I get when I attempt to login is no such repository That means that the repository you've specified doesn't exactly match any of the --allow-root= options you specified for the server in /etc/inetd.conf. -Larry Jones Larry, I´m connecting with

Commitinfo script not being executed

2002-10-04 Thread Anne McCaffrey
Hi I am facing a problem for the last 2 days.I have a script that checks if the user is trying to remove a file, and if the user has no authority to do this,commit is aborted.It used to work fine,but now suddenly it is not.When I traced it,I have found that the script is not being executed at

Re: no such repository

2002-10-04 Thread Larry Jones
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Alejandro_G=F3mez?= writes: I´ve restarted xinetd and even the machine and when I try to cvs login, the error still is No such repository What is the exact, complete text of the error message you get? -Larry Jones I must have been delirious from having so much fun. -- Calvin

Re: attic files

2002-10-04 Thread Kaz Kylheku
Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Kaz == Kaz Kylheku [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have that script; it's called ``mcvs convert''. That's the one Sorry, I missed it. I looked at the source; it's broken. I never updated it to use