Re: Update versions

2003-07-10 Thread Dewey M. Sasser
Giovanni Giazzon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I'm a little confused about branches. Let me describe how I've used and seen branches. That might help you out. Sorry about the misunderstanding. I'm coming from SourceSafe... Ouch! Congratulations. You've just traded in your bicycle for a

Re: Update versions

2003-07-10 Thread Terrence Enger
At 11:41 2003-07-10 -0400, Dewey M. Sasser wrote: Giovanni Giazzon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I'm a little confused about branches. So was I, though I lacked the sense to realize it. Let me describe how I've used and seen branches. That might help you out. [substantive information

Re: Deploying?

2003-07-10 Thread Frederic Brehm
I wanted to know what exactly is meant by deploying software. I work in a project being developed in C (for Windows and Linux platforms) and we use CVS for version control. Can we use CVS for deploying? By deploying I assume you mean creating a product and shipping it to customers or users.

Re: Update versions

2003-07-10 Thread Giovanni Giazzon
Hi Dewey, first of all, thanks for the help. The strategy I'm using today is similar to the Change Control approach (with some mistakes like set the development to a branch). It seems the best strategy for my project right now, so I'll move the development to the main trunk and I'll be using

OT-ish: Windows Question

2003-07-10 Thread Jesse Quijano
All, I'm a CVS newbie that has always used Visual Source Safe integrated with Visual Studio. So, I've got my remote CVS repository setup and can actually connect to it... no easy feat! I've also setup my directory structure on CVS which I'm sure I'll have questions on later, but so far so

Re: OT-ish: Windows Question

2003-07-10 Thread Mark Priest
Jesse, I have just started tracking a VB.NET /ASP.NET application in cvs and I had the same decision to make. I excluded the following files from cvs control: Web.config (this contains specific config info like DB access that differs for each developer) *.webinfo (this stores the IIS URL

Re: OT-ish: Windows Question

2003-07-10 Thread Larry Jones
Mark Priest writes: I added all five of these to the repository-wide cvsignore file so that they are automatically ignored for imports and adds. Just import -- add takes explicit filenames which override the ignore list. They're also ignored for other CVS command when processing the

New Powerbook...how to migrate cvsroot

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Wiebe Lists
Hi all, I'll be changing to a new powerbook tomorrow. Is there anything I need to do to migrate my local CVS repository other than tar it up and copy it over? Am I missing anything? Tom Wiebe - We've missed the train to Oceania, and live today with stranger problems. -

Re: New Powerbook...how to migrate cvsroot

2003-07-10 Thread Larry Jones
Tom Wiebe Lists writes: I'll be changing to a new powerbook tomorrow. Is there anything I need to do to migrate my local CVS repository other than tar it up and copy it over? Nope, that should do it. -Larry Jones Let's pretend I already feel terrible about it, and that you don't need to

Re: New Powerbook...how to migrate cvsroot

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Wiebe Lists
Excellent. It works! Thanks On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:08 PM, Larry Jones wrote: Tom Wiebe Lists writes: I'll be changing to a new powerbook tomorrow. Is there anything I need to do to migrate my local CVS repository other than tar it up and copy it over? Nope, that should do it. -Larry