Re: CVS Repository Questions !

2000-12-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Peter Biechele wrote: 1) Is it possible to choose the directory in the repository by using the cvs import command ? e.g. I will import a whole program sitting in the sandbox ?test?. I want to have this module in the directory $CVSROOT/Projects/Test. How do I accomplish this ???

Re: CVS Hang?

2000-12-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Please direct future queries of this nature to one of the mailing lists as you are much more likely to receive a prompt and accurate response. Anyway, I've seen that kind of thing due to a misconfigured inetd - e.g. inetd is picking up the connection but the server it is running is misconfigured

Re: -kk and -kb aren't getting along

2000-12-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Mental wrote: We're using cvs 1.10 on solaris. The issue is that some of the content is binary. I setup the cvswrappers so that the commonly added binary files get added with the -kb sticky options. http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_5.html#SEC64 The real questions I have are: 1. Is

Re: -kk and -kb aren't getting along

2000-12-19 Thread Derek R. Price
Mental wrote: Now, the thing is, I've done some experimenting and the version number isnt changing. Commits dont ask for a log message, so I imagine that nothing is happening to the binarys. It seems to me that when you do the update -kk -j to do the merge that nothing 'bad' is being done to

Re: Multiple developers in one work area

2000-12-15 Thread Derek R. Price
"Parand T. Darugar" wrote: I'd like to setup CVS for a web based project that involves multiple developers. We would like to have those multiple developers access the I'd probably set it up with either a manual script or a loginnfo hook that exported all files in the repository to the

Re: Repository management

2000-12-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Jason Henry Parker wrote: 2. Alternatively, is it possible to tweak CVSROOT/ to make some directories readable or writable by only some users, or do I have to resort to messing with UNIX file permissions? I usually opt to use UNIX file permissions. It's pretty simple. Aside from

Re: commit mail

2000-12-14 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am a CVS newbie.I wanted to know how I can send many commit messages as a single email;i.e. I want to send 10 commits as 1 email message. I also want to know how I can configure loginfo to send mail at a specified time i.e. once an hour or two. Thanks,

Re: how to: SSH CVS Linux(server) Win(client[s])

2000-12-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Robert Schott wrote: cvs:/home/validuser/.ssh/autorized_keys - I even tried a 'ssh -l validuser cvs' and this worked!) As I understand it, the command above would attempt to log into a host with the hostname 'cvs'. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect (

Re: cvs history error...

2000-12-14 Thread Derek R. Price
Robert Bresner wrote: Howdy -- granted we have a 680MB history file. Could that be why I'm getting this error? cvs history -T -a olfmake.defs Terminated with fatal signal 11 cvs -v Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10.8 (client) Copyright (c)

Re: How do I export the latest version in CVS

2000-12-12 Thread Derek R. Price
and now I want to make a new verson and find out which files are different from version 2.0 in the repository? thanks kmyoung --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antony Stace wrote: How can I export the latest version of a project in CVS?

Re: How do I export the latest version in CVS

2000-12-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Antony Stace wrote: How can I export the latest version of a project in CVS? http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC132 Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- The

Re: running cvs from cgi program

2000-12-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Mark Harrison wrote: I have a cgi script which does an anonymous pserver checkout from sourceforge. I'm a bit surprised that cvs looks in root's home directory for .cvspass. cvs checkout: could not open /home/root/.cvspass: Permission denied cvs [checkout aborted]: use "cvs login" to log

Re: Multiple streams of development? A feasible branching approach?

2000-12-08 Thread Derek R. Price
That looks like an infinite regression of cascading branches you've set up. Notice that you can never get a branch directly off the trunk again in your scenario, at least not without extra work. Well, not unless you get down to a single development track for some period of time. At the least

Re: cvsweb

2000-12-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Evan Stergiou wrote: Hi all, I want to put my executables under CVS so that anyone can download them though CVSweb. The problem is that cvsweb's "download" link automatically adds a .txt extension to my executables (that may or may not have a .exe extension, eg. Linux). How can i hack

Re: Anonymous CVS

2000-12-08 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I try to login to an anonymous CVS server, after sometime I get the message " connect to so-and-so server failed;operation timed out." I tried many servers like sourceforge,roxen etc and I am not able to login.Can anyone tell me the reason? I tried to

Re: notify file

2000-12-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Laird Nelson wrote: How about take a chapter out of the CGI/web book and shove all parameters in url-encoded form on STDIN? Then people can use existing code libraries/snippets to parse this string into name/value pairs. Just like an HTTP POST form submission. Then you don't have to

Re: notify file

2000-12-07 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: Laird Nelson wrote: How about take a chapter out of the CGI/web book and shove all parameters in url-encoded form on STDIN? Then people can use existing CGI data comes in on STDIN? Huh. I programmed them for a year or so using the Perl libraries

Re: How the files in one module can be transfered to a new modulewith all the revisions?

2000-12-06 Thread Derek R. Price
existin module in repository. Why i'm writing this to you because u can tel me hether i'm observing right thing or not or there will be some issues in future. Pl. reply me back Very Thanx for ur kind help Asheesh -Original Message- From: Derek R. Price [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: How to enforce tag naming convention and log messages

2000-12-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Padma CHini wrote: Hi I am totally new to CVS.I want to know how one can enforce a tag naming convention?I know it can be done thro' taginfo file,but I am not sure about the script it should invoke.Where should I give the pattern which I want my tags to conform to?It is not clear in the

Re: Is it possible to change a branch tag name?

2000-12-06 Thread Derek R. Price
True, but merges would find the same common ancestor for both branches, so the point is moot. Of course, you would still have to worry about other developers still having the branch checked out under the old name and committing to the old branch rather than the new one. Derek -- Derek Price

Re: Using CVS to keep web server up to date

2000-12-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Stephen Rasku wrote: I had been using loginfo to keep our internal web server up to date. The web server had access to an NFS directory where the HTML files were checked out so it was easy. We have now moved our web server to our firewall and we don't want to mount NFS directories. Is

Re: Using CVS to keep web server up to date

2000-12-06 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: My ssh installation come with an "scp" program to transfer files. You could probably do a checkout and use something like rdist or rsynch too. Er, s/rsynch/rsync/g. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://

Re: notify file

2000-12-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Tomas Velek wrote: Hello, I want to inform other about commit. To do it I use the "notify" file and the external file, which send the informative mail to people in "users" file. After commit all people receive the mail, it is right. But this mail must contains the names of commited files

Re: Windows NT CVS Server

2000-12-04 Thread Derek R. Price
Jean-Olivier Racine wrote: You probably received that question one or two million times but, still, I do not know the answer... How do you use CVS server on NT? What does it do exacly? It allows you to use CVS over the internet without having to configura a VPN? http://www.cvsnt.org

Re: Unable to login to cvs server

2000-12-04 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [root@blrftp /]# cvs -d :pserver:deepu@blrftp:/usr/local/cvsroot login (Logging in to deepu@blrftp) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server blrftp: Connection reset by peer

Re: problems with cvs!!

2000-12-04 Thread Derek R. Price
vinay sinha wrote: i want to know whether cvs is a hostable solution? how good is cvs? secondly i have cvs in lab with lease line can it handle multisite development. http://cvshome.org/docs/infopages.html http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html There's a link to a page on multi-site

Re: Multiple repositories

2000-12-04 Thread Derek R. Price
Irving Salisbury wrote: We currently use CVS successfully on a number of projects at my company. I wouldn't consider myself a newbie, but nowhere near an expert. http://cvshome.org/docs/infomultisite.html Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect (

Re: incorrect return code on vms...

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Noel L Yap writes: Hmmm. How does diff-utils deal with this situation? I don't think diff-utils is interested in running on non-Unix/Posix systems. CVS is (although it doesn't quite succeed just yet). Still, where's the harm in returning only EXIT_SUCCESS

Re: cvs as a web site repository

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Ignacio Machin wrote: hello. I'm studing the instalation of a cvs server for use in the develop of web sites, I see there is a difference between the binary and the text files and for me is very important the correct versioning of binary files , especially .gif and .jpgthe questions are: -

Re: moving server location continued

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
"Hanser, Kevin" wrote: I do a cvs login, and everything seems to work ok. But when I want to do a checkout/release/update/etc, I'm getting this message: cvs update: used empty password; try "cvs login" with a real password That usually means you used a different CVSROOT for the 'cvs login'

Re: pserver groups

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: You might also want to look into file system ACLs (man getfacl or man setfacl for more info). You keep saying that, but they're not installed on my system. What OS FS are you using? A quick web search says Solaris if memory serves that would be something like Solaris 2.6

Re: incorrect return code on vms...

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek R. Price writes: There isn't any. I wasn't arguing for or against that change, just explaining why things are the way they are. We're talking about a few lines in configure.in, maybe one in acconfig.h, a line in system.h, and a single line in main. I'll do

Re: Moving repository

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are moving the repository from one location to another in the same server.Is it ok if we use symbolic links so that all users do not have to change their CVSROOT? I think so. Try it. Is there any script which if run will modify the users views? There's one

Re: pserver groups

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Noel L Yap wrote: Yes, I'm running Solaris 2.6. IIRC, Solars 2.5.1 also had support for them. I'd be somewhat surprised if Linux didn't have support for them, yet. Yep. Don't know how well it works but I found support as a kernel patch: http://acl.bestbits.at/ . Sounds like what I know of

Re: CVSIGNORE won't ignore .conf files

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Richard Ponton wrote: I tried using both .cvsignore and the CVSIGNORE environment variable. Both worked for all the other types of files I wanted to ignore (like *.shtml). In my tree there is a conf subdirectory, with various .conf files in it. With *.conf in my cvsignore and even naming

Re: enforcing log message and tag naming rules

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I ensure that everyone enters a log message while checking in, else deny commit. verifymsg How can I enforce tag naming rules? taginfo I know that we should use taginfo and loginfo for this but how exactly to do this?Is anyone aware of any scripts to

Re: still having problems

2000-12-01 Thread Derek R. Price
Hey. Just thought I'd tell _somebody_ who might care. A convenient checkbox to filter (or give a lower score to) emails with the keywords "search", "archive", and perhaps "mail-archive" and/or "e?mail" would probably be neat and even much in demand soon if anybody has the time. See below. For

Re: CVS and Visual Age for Java

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem we experienced is that VAJ, upon extract to a CVS workspace, would re-format the entire source file. This plays havac with CVS's concept of simultaneous editing of the same file by different developers, i.e. the probability of merge conflicts goes up

Re: Moving code from CVS to PVCS

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Search the mail archives for this list. There's a script I used to go in the other direction a long time ago called something like pvcs2cvs.pl floating around. I thought it was fairly complete when I finished with it but the last person to resubmit it said (s?)he fixed a few bugs. Derek --

Re: CVS log

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
"Hanser, Kevin" wrote: Is there some sort of (very basic) text log w/CVS besides the change log(s)? For example, is there a way to log _only_ the checkin time and user, and nothing else? (this would be in addition to the usual change logs..) We just want a sort of snapshot on the day's

Re: Moving code from CVS to PVCS

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
in the teacher's lounge. I saw nothing unusual in the teacher's lounge. I saw nothing unusual in the teacher's lounge... - Bart Simpson on chalkboard, _The Simpsons_ "Derek R. Price" wrote: Search the mail archives for this list. There's a script I used to go in the other direction a lon

Re: Info Retrieval

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Cheryl Strachan wrote: Does anyone know a simple way to get a listing of all files in a repository AND the current version number for each? Search http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cvs@gnu.org/ This question has been answered quite a few times. Derek -- Derek Price CVS

Re: cannot add a file because of old RCSfile

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Ferdinando Ametrano wrote: I do not know how to handle the following error: cvs server: cannot add file `Makefile' when RCS file `/cvsroot/quantlib/QuantLib/Linux/Makefile,v' already exists cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! Please search the http://www.mail-archive.com for

Re: How the files in one module can be transfered to a new module with all the revisions?

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
_copy_ the archive files into their new configuration. It'll keep your log messages, but you'll probably have to go back to the old module to use old versions if you broke you Makefiles or whatever. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org )

Re: pserver timeout question

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
It's a security feature of your inetd. If too many connections are initiated in too short a time it stops accepting connections for 10 minutes. I think both the number of connections that takes and the length of the timeout is configurable, but if you can rewrite your script to open less

Re: Help needed regarding verifymsg on branches

2000-11-30 Thread Derek R. Price
Deivanai Meiyappan wrote: I have a template asking for BUG-ID when i am checking in at branch level..But i am not not able to get the branch tag in my verifymsg script.Does anybody have any code which will get the branch tag in verifymsg script..If so could you please let me know. This

Re: Problems with committing changes to a CVS repository when not on the lan, is it possible to store them up?

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Antony Stace wrote: I have just started to use CVS. I have managed to set up a CVS repository on a machine and connect to it via my notebook which is all good and well when I am on the LAN. What I want to be able to do is to somehow make a copy of the repository on my notebook and work on

Re: Using an IP adresss to connect to a CVS repository

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Antony Stace wrote: IS it possible to use an IP address instead of the machine name to connect to, ie something like cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot project1 login I have tried the above and it dosent seem to work. Am I doing something a little wrong or is this just

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: 3) Don't forget that a final patch submission should contain a ChangeLog entry and any necessary doc changes, but I'm sure I didn't need to remind you about that. :) Nope won't forget. As I said earlier the whole point of this exercise was to get some comments

Re: Changing the log message

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Olaf Meding wrote: Sorry, I am using WinCVS and tried both the command line and the WinCVS GUI. Your suggestion fails with both. All the shells I'm familiar with allow you to just include them in the quotes: cvs admin -mr1.2:"New message next line" file Sorry. I don't know enough

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: Here are some sample cvs history -T output(s): T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.3 [d:A] T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd foo.c 1.1 [d:A] T 2000-11-29 15:21 + sharpd bar.c 1.4 [b:M] T 2000-11-29 15:22 + sharpd bar.c [b:D] T 2000-11-29 15:22 +

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Donald Sharp writes: This is starting to get complicated. Should we rework the cvs history output for the 'T' record? I think it's better to leave the history stuff alone and let the few people who care about recording tag information use taginfo to do it. I don't

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Donald Sharp wrote: The thing that really concerns me about this is that the history file can get quite large and will tend to grow much quicker now with these changes. For instance we had a repository with a history file that was 118megs. Parsing that took quite some time, and in the end

Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)

2000-11-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Larry Jones wrote: Derek R. Price writes: I would have thought checkout records were overkill. You know what might be interesting in conjunction with this. A config file string that took the same flags which can be passed to 'history -x' and filtered records *before* they were

Re: Using a CVS repository on another machine

2000-11-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Antony Stace wrote: I have one machine(machine 1) which has a cvs repository on it. I have another machine(machine 2). What I want to be able to do is to be able to checkout and checkin files in the cvs repository on (machine 1) from (machine 2). What is the simplest way I can do this?

Re: Obtaining a list of all projects in CVS

2000-11-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Antony Stace wrote: Is there a command which will list information about all the projects in the CVS repository? Ie, what projects exist, what files are being worked on in each project, etc. Or do I need to write a script to get this type of info? There isn't one. 'cvs co -c' and 'cvs co

Re: Trouble to Connection

2000-11-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Sergio Merino Merino wrote: When I executed: telnet servername 2401 for debug :pserver: the system doesn't permit entry to server. This is the ouptut that I got: Connection Closed by foreign host. In Appendix F (page 150) I saw that this was one way to connect to

Re: cvs checkout

2000-11-28 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a way of setting up CVS to ignore a directory in the repository during checkout. Any info would be appreciated. The modules admin file, but you shouldn't use it. It's not versioned. Reorganizing your repository so that you don't

Re: cvs checkout

2000-11-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Jerry Nairn wrote: Of course, rearranging the contents of the repository, as Derek suggested, makes it even more difficult to get back to something you had in the past. I agree that there is reason to be reluctant to arbitrarily change the modules file. However, the modules file is

Re: cannot add file `XXX' when RCS file `/.../XXX,v' already exists

2000-11-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Ferdinando Ametrano wrote: The real problem is the commit failure: cvs commit -m "log message" Makefile (in directory E:\Projects\QuantLib\Linux) with the following message: cvs server: cannot add file `Makefile' when RCS file `/cvsroot/quantlib/QuantLib/Linux/Makefile,v' already exists

Re: Changing the log message

2000-11-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Olaf Meding wrote: How can I specify a carrige returns in the change log message command below? cvs admin -mr1.2:"New message" file All the shells I'm familiar with allow you to just include them in the quotes: cvs admin -mr1.2:"New message next line" file Derek -- Derek Price

Re: cvs checkout

2000-11-28 Thread Derek R. Price
Jerry Nairn wrote: Of course, rearranging the contents of the repository, as Derek suggested, makes it even more difficult to get back to something you had in the past. I agree that there is reason to be reluctant to arbitrarily change the modules file. However, the modules file is

Re: Remote Shell Account

2000-11-22 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install CVS for the very first time. I have a windows 2k client and a Linux remote shell account. The Linux box is shared can I install CVS on that ok? BTW Whered are the instructions for installing CVS.

Re: question about branches

2000-11-22 Thread Derek R. Price
"Tige D. Chastain" wrote: I have a current version of code that is stable. I have a developer that wants to go off in a different direction on a few ideas and see how it comes out. Management has okayed this. Can I just create a branch in CVS to handle this? I only ask, as the

Re: Why are memory requirements so high?

2000-11-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Dave Camp wrote: Why in the world does CVS need more than 33 megs to check in a 1.7 meg binary file? That concerns my IS guy to no end... http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC27 Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Problems

2000-11-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Sergio Merino Merino wrote: When I try to access to my repository through rsh: rsh -l name nameserv 'echo $PATH' the system said me: Permission denied. Could you help me? Man rsh. There's lots of reasons that could be happening. And don't forget to make sure you have 0622 perms on

Re: Scripts for remote check in

2000-11-22 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i require some kind of a script which will check in the files in india and also simultaneouly in Us over the internet. Maybe CVSup: http://cvshome.org/dev/addoncvsup.html There's some information that might get what you want done here too:

Re: Specifying CVSROOT

2000-11-22 Thread Derek R. Price
Manish Koolwal wrote: Each time I telnet a machine having CVS, it prompts me for specifying CVSROOT. I then specify the path of CVSROOT and export it. Is there any way by which I don't have to specify CVSROOT each time I log on to a machine? I believe that using your .cshrc, .bashrc, or the

Re: ongoing problems with broken Path-MTU-discovery on servers at cvshome.org/OpenAvenue.com

2000-11-22 Thread Derek R. Price
"Greg A. Woods" wrote: Can someone please clue in the appropriate people that there's a very SERIOUS problem with the servers at cvshome.org and/or OpenAvenue.com. I really have nothing to do with the networks, so I can't do much, but I keep forwarding you descriptions of the problem to our

Re: Cederqvist

2000-11-17 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a web site that provides the Cederqvist manual for downloading. I can only find it for online reading or as ps/pdf files for downloading. What format, exactly, did you want it in? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect (

Re: SV: Cederqvist

2000-11-17 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was searching for a HTML version. You can generate it from the sources using the texi2html script, but I put one online at: http://alumni.engin.umich.edu/~oberon/cvs1-11.html.tar.bz2 and http://alumni.engin.umich.edu/~oberon/cvs1-11.html.tgz CVSHome .org

Re: Problem in checking out the file of the size 72MB(roughly)

2000-11-17 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using CVS for version control system Client is WINCVS 1.1 and server is at redhatLinux 5.2. We have checked in (imported) a file which is of the size 72 MB (roughly). when we tried to checkout that particular file it was giving errors some times it says

Re: SV: SV: Cederqvist

2000-11-17 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Derek, that was very nice of you to do! You're welcome. :) Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- We hold these truths to be

Re: CVS add problem

2000-11-17 Thread Derek R. Price
Samir Barucija wrote: What does it mean? cvs -d /home/cvs add knock_server cvs add: in directory .: cvs [add aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first Add only works in a CVS workspace. You have to do a checkout first. If you're trying to add a new (toplevel) module,

Re: CVSpserver - connection refused

2000-11-17 Thread Derek R. Price
Bradley Johnston wrote: I also did a kill -HUP and I got a message that no inetd services were running? Sounds like you're not starting inted or it went down. You probably need something like the following (assuming inetd is really installed): /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S50inetd linked to

Re: Mass moving files onto branch

2000-11-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Stephen Rasku wrote: One of our developers wants to mass move a bunch of files from the HEAD to a branch. There are binary files and text files. Some are the same name and some have been renamed. He has proposed to simply "cvs rm" the entire contents of the module and then "cvs add" the

Re: Mass moving files onto branch

2000-11-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Stephen Rasku wrote: revision), but is there a reason you're not just creating a new branch from HEAD? The reason is that the branch is contains the history for the current production release of the software. We need to maintain this branch until we release the current version. Um, why

Re: Mass moving files onto branch

2000-11-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Stephen Rasku wrote: We aren't replacing the whole product, just part of it. Our previous release, call it A, includes a bunch of HTML and C-based CGI scripts. The current release, call it B, does all this with PHP scripts. Release B is taking longer than we expected (go figure) so we want

Re: simple question about binary files

2000-11-15 Thread Derek R. Price
William Mulvihill wrote: to the server, does CVS make a backup of that old file and then add the new updated file in as the newest version? Or does it remove the old one and replace it with the new one? I believe the case is that it backups the old

Re: export vs checkout differences: files not updated

2000-11-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Pekka Savola wrote: Of course, you could always use 'cvs update' and deal with the 'CVS' directories. Umm.. If you delete CVS directories, cvs update doesn't work, right? So this doesn't seem to be an option as it's essentially the same as export. Unless you can somehow set CVS dirs

Re: order of branches important?

2000-11-15 Thread Derek R. Price
Jelle Boomstra wrote: I noticed the PRCS homepage had a large section on this subject. Should i rather use PRCS for extensive branche merging or can CVS do this as good? I'm a bit worried about using a lesser-used tool. Any pointers to CVS branch merging are welcome. Sounds like a

Re: Suggestions Requested, Thanks..

2000-11-09 Thread Derek R. Price
Ray Schneider wrote: 2 Different Development Groups Each have readers and writers within their respective groups Each should be able to read the other groups tree Each should have one admin that is the only person allowed to commit to production code. What I would like have is your ideas

Re: Cederqvist manual in downloadable html form?

2000-11-08 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Cederqvist manual available in downloadable form from somewhere? Thank you. I just stuck one up at: http://alumni.engin.umich.edu/~oberon/cvs1-11.html.tgz and http://alumni.engin.umich.edu/~oberon/cvs1-11.html.tar.bz2 If you have Tex installed, you

Re: Solaris 8

2000-11-08 Thread Derek R. Price
Bruce Sava wrote: Has anyone installed cvs on a Solaris 8 system? I'm guessing somebody has: http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#cvs Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue (

Re: Cederqvist manual in downloadable html form?

2000-11-08 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Cederqvist manual available in downloadable form from somewhere? Thank you. Oh, there's a PDF version with working links at http://www.cvshome.org/docs/cvspdf/cvs1_11.pdf , too. Derek -- Derek Price

Re: FW: Trouble with my server connection, please mail me back, thanks

2000-11-08 Thread Derek R. Price
I believe you were looking for [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's where these types of questions usually get answered. Anyhow, it sounds like your server is misconfigured. You'll have to read the docs specific to the NT server. You should be able to download them from http://www.cvsnt.org . For more

Re: Cederqvist manual in downloadable html form?

2000-11-08 Thread Derek R. Price
name. There are so many copies of this floating around the net, it's been very hard to distinguish which version is for which code version. Thanks! Mike "Derek R. Price" wrote: "Derek R. Price" wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Cederqvist manual avail

Re: Timezone-conflict between client and server

2000-11-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Michael Lukaschek wrote: we have a problem with the timezones. We use cvs 1.10 on a linux machine with CET. The clients run wincvs 1.2b16 with windows having timezone GMT+1 which is equivalent to CET. Does the wincvs client set the time to GMT during contact to the pserver? Or does the

Re: Converting a branch into the main trunk

2000-11-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Of course, you might be losing minor bug fixes on the stable branch. I'm with Chuck. I'd try the merge first. CVS usually handles them pretty well. Basically, if the same lines have been changed in a file on each branch, then the change will be flagged as a conflict. Otherwise they will be

Re: CVS/Checkin.prog security hole status?

2000-11-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Dan Kegel wrote: Have the security issues identified in http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-cvs%40gnu.org/msg00384.html been resolved yet? They were: "CVS/Checkin.prog and CVS/Update.prog can be replaced with an arbitrary binary, which will be blindly executed on the server" and "the client

Re: File sharing restriction

2000-11-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Sankar Das wrote: Is it possible to restrict a file to be acessed by more than one user simultaneously? I want to know that if it is possible that whenever a user does 'checkout' of some file, nobody will be allowed to 'ckeckout' that file until the first user make a 'commit'. Look

Re: SV: Putting a catalog in a different location...

2000-11-07 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks.. this excatly what I was looking for. I didn't notice the -d option when I looked in the manual - silly me.. I don't quite understand what you mean with 'breaking reproducibility of old releases'. If you have a spare moment to explain this to me, it would be

Re: [lula] CVS web site administrator's tutorial

2000-11-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Dan Kegel wrote: (I would not have thought of moving the work directory- Perforce, Source Integrity, and SourceSafe have brainwashed me into fixed mappings between repository and sandbox! However, that trick might be a bit confusing for my target audience, who tend to have problems with the

Re: out of memory message

2000-11-07 Thread Derek R. Price
Paul Sander wrote: You need 1.3 GIGabytes of memory to check out this file? I can think of several workarounds: [snip] cvs [checkout aborted]: out of memory; can not reallocate 1310720 bytes That sure looks like 1.3 Mbytes to me. You can try messing with compilation options but if you

Re: CVS Internal Authorization Patch

2000-11-07 Thread Derek R. Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be useful to know why you think this is a bad idea. Otherwise your comment is of very little value. The general design philosophy behind CVS tends more towards leaving things like ACLs to the OS. More people are putting more time into security there and

Re: Networked RCS (was: (no subject))

2000-11-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Richa Munjal wrote: \Thanks for the prompt response . Derek , I feel you have not understood my question correctly. I have an RCS repository at a remote location (at a machine which is in US), and I want to check-out , check-in the files into the remote repository without logging on to the

Re: Import (first deleting the old Repository source)

2000-11-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Patrik Sjöberg wrote: Someone please answer this question... Is it ok to just delete (rm -r sourcedir) a cvs source and do a new import with the same vendor tag and release tag with a sligtly modified source (added some directories)? I have also modified my cvswrappers file to treat more

Re: Shared Checkout are for Document control

2000-11-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Richard F Weber wrote: In the shared directory, the documents themselves are present, and able to get locked by any authorized user. When the authorized user is done editing the file, they can then commit it back in, and lock the file back up so a user is required to check the file out..

Re: pserver and cvswrappers

2000-11-06 Thread Derek R. Price
Dan Kegel wrote: When using pserver mode, which side obeys {~/.cvswrappers, $CVSWRAPPERS, CVSROOT/cvswrappers}? Does the client pay any attention to CVSROOT/cvswrappers (which may or may not be on the local machine)? I don't remember. I'm not sure CVSROOT/cvswrappers isn't sourced only for

Re: (no subject)

2000-11-03 Thread Derek R. Price
Richa Munjal wrote: I am a user of RCS . I have all my repositories in RCS. These repositories are located in US.i.e they physically reside on some machines in US I want to check-out the code from RCS repositories sitting in India without having to log on to a US machine and without

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