Re: CVS Manual, section 2.9.2

2003-03-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
-- indeed, extended, recurring, and flame-prone -- debate. I don't blame you for being confused. The example never says who bach is; you have to infer it. I'll be sending a patch for that to bug-cvs in a minute. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Log data for branches

2003-03-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
, leaving only the warning. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done, because a machine I have never heard of has crashed. - Leslie Lamport

Re: Log data for branches

2003-03-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
must be older. Try cvs version instead of cvs -v; the former prints out the server's CVS version too. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done, because a machine I have never heard of has

Re: Branching behavior and binary file Qs

2003-03-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
you might decide to just recompile it. In either case, the usual approach is to write a script, Makefile, or whatever to drive the process -- and then track that file in CVS. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which

Re: directory not relative within the depository

2003-04-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
sources MyProject/something/Foo MyCompany start if you wanted the stuff to end up deeper inside the repo. (CVS will create the intermediate directories if necessary.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which I cannot get

Re: Moving branch to trunk

2003-04-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
/archive/html/info-cvs/2002-09/msg00226.html -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done, because a machine I have never heard of has crashed. - Leslie Lamport

Re: directory not relative within the depository

2003-04-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
.java,v -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done, because a machine I have never heard of has crashed. - Leslie Lamport ___ Info-cvs mailing

Re: Ignore local changes?

2003-04-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
permits will affect only your own. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done, because a machine I have never heard of has crashed. - Leslie Lamport

Re: Ignore local changes?

2003-04-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:01:30PM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: Eric Siegerman writes: CVS should probably print a warning in this case, but it doesn't. This case is updating a file with a sticky tag or date, which seems like a good idea to me, too. Anyone disagree? Sticky *revision* tag

Re: Ignore local changes?

2003-04-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
the template-substituter when the template or a user's per-sandbox parameters file has changed. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done, because a machine I have never heard of has crashed

Re: Query regarding Branches in CVS

2003-04-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
, to avoid corrupting the repository. CVS does this; if both users commit their changes at the same moment, one of them will have to wait a short time for the other one's commit to finish. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed

Re: .cvsignore file being ignored...

2003-06-06 Thread Eric Siegerman
is that expression generally accepted computing wisdom. It's just a summary of the philosophy (to use the term rather loosely) behind Perl's design (or rather, lack thereof). -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side

Re: The idea isn't clear...

2003-05-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
version as well as the two child versions Of course, (2) is what we're after, but diff3 provides no way to get that without also getting (1). -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would

Re: Command-line multi-line messages for commit

2003-06-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
transformations you like) - export CVSEDITOR=`which cat` into the environment - go: echo $transformed_log_message | cvs $other_args -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me

Re: Removing sticky tag 'HEAD' in cvs

2003-06-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
to lose generality. Given that, and also given principle of least surprise, -r HEAD should do what -r any-other-revision-tag does. If one of the cvs maintainers is listening, can this be put on the wish list? -1 -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: System password authentication

2003-04-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
-CVS access -- no less secure than publishing the password on a web site as everyone does now, but certainly less annoying. Oh well. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / My Wine works. However it crashes about half the time on startup. Apparently

Re: Using dos2unix on commit???

2003-06-13 Thread Eric Siegerman
suspect he was using panic in the mundane, informal sense of freak out, not the jargony sense of abort. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew

Re: difference between 1.1 and 1.1.1.1

2003-06-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
the one from Version 4 of the package. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help

Re: Checkout files to the same working directory

2003-06-30 Thread Eric Siegerman
easily check out a *subdirectory* from a different place in the repo, but you can't mix files from two repo directories in one sandbox directory. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would

Re: Sandbox file date unexpected

2003-07-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
it was? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all of humanity, except

Re: file missing from 'cvs -nq up'

2003-07-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
-I! quoting the ! however your shell requires it. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I

Re: On commit, get log editor session for each sub-directory

2003-07-30 Thread Eric Siegerman
may well have the syntax wrong), to force CVS into client/server mode even though the repo is on the local machine. Certainly -d mymachine.mydomain.com:/my/repo/location will do what you want, but I suspect it'll slow CVS down more than fork mode would do. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman

Re: simple performance question on CVS

2003-08-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
hypothesizing.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front

Re: How to determine the previous revision number?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
subsequently did a cvs import of that file. Note that you can distinguish these two cases from the log output, by looking at the +N -M indicators on 1.1.1.1, so you don't have to cvs diff them. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: should we branch or tag every time we add a file?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
, for now. If you later need to patch the release, you can create a branch at that time to hold your changes. In the meantime, you've avoided cluttering up your repo with unnecessary branches. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around

Re: Strange behaviour with cvs rlog and branch tag

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
; either one could be what the user's looking for. It's the same difference as that between cvs log -rX:Y and -rX::Y. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where

Re: How to determine the previous revision number?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:47:06PM -0700, Paul Sander wrote: This algorithm does not consider: [lots of things] Woops, you're right! The next time I have a sneaking suspicion I might be writing beyond my knowledge ... I'll listen to it :-/ -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: One repository with different names?

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
... To automate that, you'll have to modify all the CVS/Root files in your sandbox to refer to the repo by its new name. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where

Re: get list of branches

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
(branch and revision tags both) in the repo, but it's not always accurate, so it's best not to depend on it. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew

Re: How to programmatically restrict a /bin/rm command in a repository?

2003-09-04 Thread Eric Siegerman
is not in the path to be deleted. This seems very inefficient. And hopelessly insecure. What's to prevent them from going behind your script's back to the real rm command -- or writing their own delete-file command? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb

2003-09-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
be completely pointless. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think

Re: CVS history and tag vs rtag

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
-cvs/2001-08/msg01156.html http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2000-11/msg00404.html -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew

Re: updated to 1.11.6 (from 1.11.2) now have problems on windows

2003-09-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
; my proposed one cares only about the practical problem -- the impossibility of stuffing two unrelated revisions into one sandbox file. If an operation isn't trying to do that, forbidding it on theoretical grounds seems pointlessly annoying. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: updated to 1.11.6 (from 1.11.2) now have problems on windows

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:31:07PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: Eric Siegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, perhaps it should do something like: if the specified pathname, together with the usual other criteria (-r, -D, sticky attributes, etc.), selects more than one *revision

Re: diff of multiple files between old versions

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
form at that.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front

Re: remote cvs access - recommendations

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
to give co-developers access to cvs WITHOUT giving them system level access? You can configure sshd to only allow one command, cvs. I'm not sure how to do that, but it's been discussed here in the last few days, so check the list archives. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: CVS hangs on certain files

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
, to get a complete dump of the network conversation These are for the canonical cvs program, but I'm guessing they'll work in CVSNT as well. Probably not in the other clients. See the manual for details on both of these. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL

Re: CVS patch for unedit -e

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
asking for read-only access, approval is required, but isn't too hard to get. At least, that's how it was when I joined a year or two ago; is it still the case? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side

FWD: Announce: Cvs-Brancher 1.00

2003-10-10 Thread Eric Siegerman
- -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all

Re: CVS refuses to remove (branch) tag

2003-10-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all of humanity, except

Re: cvs performance questions

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
on the branch Specifically, the longer the path (along the revision tree) from the revision you're working with to the one at the head of the trunk, the longer the operation will take. See rcsfile(5) for an explanation. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: the Cederqvist, difficulty downloading .pdf

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:12:18PM -0500, Terrence Enger wrote: http://ftp.cvshome.org/release/feature/cvs-1.12.2/cederqvist-1.12.2.pdf. - Acrobat reader complains There was an error opening this document.[...] Yup, I get the same complaint. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto

Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum

2003-11-06 Thread Eric Siegerman
++ on some systems? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think

Re: Problem checking in large files

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
-- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: cvs update times

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
revisions that dominates. CVS's locking overhead is proportional to the number of directories (not files) being operated on. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his

Re: Problem checking in large files

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:20:14PM -0500, Jim.Hyslop wrote: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, cvs log and cvs status can display different values for the -k setting. Thanks for the correction, I should have mentioned 'log' to begin with. Well, it was hardly

Re: cvs update times

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
the co and update times would be proportional for these two projects. Didn't someone say that co locks the whole tree, but update only locks one directory at a time? I don't see how that would affect things, though. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems with uncommitted working directories, from homeand work.

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
at all.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: sticky non-branch tags are sometines treated as branches in empty

2003-12-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
to it, they won't know what's going on, but again it'll fail safe, this time on the human scale: the user will *know* he doesn't know what's going on, whereas a legitimate tag name in the error message might have fooled him into thinking he did know :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont

Re: automating cvs checkout/checkin and also don't checkin identical files

2003-12-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
to send all data necessary for the commit to the server in one go, without any pauses for user interaction.) When operating locally, on the other hand, it can figure that out *before* collecting log messages, so it can display an accurate file list. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto

Re: Checksum failure: serious problem or not?

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 03:22:31PM -0500, Larry Jones wrote: Larry Eric Siegerman writes: Larry Larry The P status and the checksum failure message should both go Larry away. (Patched and fully-refetched files should all be labelled Larry U.) Larry Larry I might be convinced about P status

CVS security audit?

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
to recall that one of the big objections to pserver is that CVS has never had a security audit. Once the Savannah audit is finished, that objection goes away. How will that affect peoples' level of confidence in pserver and the like? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL

Re: CVS security audit?

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
is not secure because the password is sent effectively in plain text [...] Woops, I'd forgotten about that! Ok, as regards pserver itself, my question was pretty dumb. But how about GSSAPI or Kerberos with encryption? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Checksum failure: serious problem or not?

2003-12-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
fetch; whether the sandbox is remote or local, the user's changes are irrecoverably lost. (I don't know how that situation might occur in real usage; I did it artificially while researching my previous message in this thread :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL

Re: Is there a cvs uncommit, or somethings similar

2004-01-07 Thread Eric Siegerman
the messages. I'd rather not go in a manually muck with the ,v file in the repository. No kidding! -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members

Re: Possible race in pserver leading to broken pipe error?

2004-02-10 Thread Eric Siegerman
anyway; it'd be a busywait loop, but that seems safer than doing nothing. Something like this (untested): char junk; ssize_t status; while ((status=read (flowcontrol_pipe[0], junk, 1)) 0 || (status == -1 errno == EAGAIN)); -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric

Re: how to support symlinks?

2004-02-18 Thread Eric Siegerman
as gnudist, btw) Try asking the GNU webmasters, or other individuals who've discussed the thing in the past. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members

Re: [Maybe Spam] Re: [OFT] scripting removal of $Id:

2004-02-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
the same line in all three files, there should be no merge conflict. Note, though, that as a side effect, merging with -kk will stickily set all the files in your sandbox to -kk mode. *After* you commit the merge, you'll have to do a cvs up -A to restore them. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman

Re: Branch Tag Deleted, Can it be Re-created?

2004-02-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
branch10 module-name -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

Re: Branch Tag Deleted, Can it be Re-created?

2004-02-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
-create my branch tag at 1.65.2. Oops! Sorry. See this message: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-12/msg00599.html In which, among other things, we learn that I started with the same wrong suggestion then too. Duh! -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL

Re: cvswrappers and import command line conflict???

2004-03-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
I have to take your word for it that it doesn't work.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during

Re: cvswrappers and import command line conflict???

2004-03-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
verified it) was to put this line at the bottom of my ~/.cvswrappers: * -k 'o' -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss

Re: Bug with entering Log messages using editor other than vi

2004-03-13 Thread Eric Siegerman
to read in the log message. Try setting EDITOR to gvim -f. That tells gvim to run in the foreground, which should make CVS happy. -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his

Re: EOF while looking for end of string in RCS file : How to delete problem file?

2004-03-13 Thread Eric Siegerman
something else out.) -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau

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