At 15:53 -0500 3/17/00, Laird Nelson wrote:
My curiosity is piqued by several posts recently on the subject of
builds.
...
For those of you that do run builds of your products/systems where cvs
is the underlying version control system, how many of you:
I don't do any of your choices, exactly.
At 17:59 -0400 8/16/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I'm new in CVS. After reading lots of newsgroup and reading Karl
Fogel's CVS book, I'm ready to import our corporate codes into cvs. We have
multiple clients and each client has multiple projects. How should I set up
my repository to best
This is a snippet of a job requirement that recently appeared on an
internal bulliten board:
"The candidate will be administering revisions of Controls
Systems (CVS)"
We now return you to your regularly scheduled flame-fest. :-)
Fred
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At 15:10 -0400 9/11/00, David Martin wrote:
I need to provide a simple script that, immediately after checkout,
creates some symbolic links within the newly checked out hierarchy, on
the client machines. At first I thought I could do this easily with a
program option specified in the modules
At this point in the discussion, I would like to nominate the question
"What is Cederqvist?"
as the most important entry in a CVS FAQ. Please note that one cannot RTFM
until one knows the answer to this question.
The next most important entry in the FAQ should be:
"How do I
At 10:57 -0400 10/26/00, Larry Jones wrote:
They aren't random -- there's a well-defined set that the test suite
uses if they're set:
TESTDIR - the directory to run the tests in
AWK - the awk program to use
EXPR- the expr program to use
ID - the id
-Original Message-
From: Tige D. Chastain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
...
Thought I would let you all know that the document at
http://www.cvshome.com/docs/manual/cvs.html does not render in
Netscape. Taking a look at the HTML, it looks like not all of the
tables were
I know that one should use client/server CVS when the repository and
sandbox are on heterogeneous systems. (SGI and Sun, for example).
What are the pros and cons of using NFS to access the CVS repository
between systems that are similar? What if the OS version isn't
exactly the same?
We have
I asked:
What are the pros and cons of using NFS to access the CVS repository
between systems that are similar? What if the OS version isn't
exactly the same?
We have been using CVS like this for a while. I would like to
know if it is worth setting up a cvs server on our file server. The
Could one paste a VBS script into the mail message instead of
attaching it as a file? Or, maybe attach a gzipped version of the
script?
If the gnu mailing list software automatically trashed executable
attachments (not just .vbs, but also .exe and others?) we can still
share script source
Has the mailing list manager at gnu.org been listening to this discussion?
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[ On Friday, June 15, 2001 at 00:23:14 (-0700), Gianni Mariani wrote: ]
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] cvs-nserver 1.11.1.1 released
cvs-nserver sounds great.
I'd like to see thin kind of authentication support in the base CVS soon.
At 11:04 -0400 6/15/01, Greg A. Woods wrote:
No, you do not.
At 15:47 -0400 9/25/01, Greg A. Woods wrote:
There's no way to handle _any_ file attribute change tracking without
extending the RCS file format. Period. Take it up with the RCS
maintainers if you want to do something productive about it.
Suppose that along with the foo,v files in the
At 16:53 -0700 10/2/01, David Taylor wrote:
Also see http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-September/020377.html for
his pointer to a perl script to hunt for other instances of corruption.
I followed the multi-level indirection and found
At 16:02 -0500 1/8/02, Jack Baty wrote:
Other than the vendor branch issues, are there gotchas of which I should be
aware when managing binaries within CVS?
I have a dozen or two complete web sites under CVS control, including all of
the .gif and .jpgs. These are imported as binaries (-kb) and
At 16:04 -0500 1/11/02, Jack Baty wrote:
I then deleted all of the files in the directory before
creating the branch,
Or something like that :)
Whoops!
A dead state means that file has been removed .. for that revision.
This sounds like my situation, but I was hoping someone could
At 22:28 +0100 1/13/02, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
I have created some symlinks in my repository, pointing out
to some files outside the repository.
But CVS is only looking at the symlinks timestamps. NOT the
timestamp on the files outside the repository!!!
Is there any options by which i can
At 8:23 -0600 1/15/02, Steve Greenland wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:29:59PM +0100, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
Its not the symlink it self, i store in my repository, its the symlinked
file.
I have only files in my repository, without any symlinks! But i have
many symlinks in the
At 16:07 + 1/16/02, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
Rather than creating a new repository for code that's going to be
transferred, eventually, to a spin-off company, would it be easier to
create a module for them, then transfer the module, or should we create
a new repository.
Think of a repository
At 7:54 -0500 1/17/02, Richard Giuly wrote:
Is it okay to delete the ,v files from the repository if you don't want
the corresponding file at all? (that is, you don't even want the history
preserved)
Yes, assuming that no other file in the repository (like a makefile)
refers to the file.
This
Rich Giuly said:
thanks for the information.
by the way, what exactly do you mean by sandbox ?
I know what it means, but I wanted to give Rich an authoritative
answer. However, cederqvist-1.11.1p1.pdf did not contain the word at
all. A search of the FAQ revealed a single reference
At 19:20 +0530 3/12/02, sudarshan wrote:
Yes i do accept the comments what brian has told. Even i am a member
of CVS mailing list and past one week i am getting around numerous
SPAM mails and the character set is not english and it is very
difficult.
Could some body can stop this
Sudarshan,
At 17:03 +1000 4/8/02, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
Sorry - Having never done *software* releases with CVS myself, I
misphrased my query. What I really meant was 'cvs export'. In other
words, we do a 'cvs export' of a tagged branch as part of our
release process. I wanted to capture the tag name of
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Beachey, Kendric wrote:
Were it up to me, every message I ever write would be in plain old text, but
our dad-blamed Exchange server insists on HTML-ifying my messages as it
hands them to the outside world.
No worry. html posted from _subscribers_ would not be caught
I updated a file by mistake and I'm not ready to integrate its
changes with my current sandbox. An update -r old.rev will fix
things up, but it sets a sticky tag.
I'll probably forget (call it a senior moment :-) to update -A
until I thrash around a bit and figure out what's wrong. It would
At 11:30 -0500 4/11/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
an unmodified copy of your file is also in your working directory, with the
name `.#file.revision' where revision is the revision that your modified
file started from. (Note that some systems automatically purge files that
begin with `.#' if they
Frederic Brehm writes:
I updated a file by mistake and I'm not ready to integrate its
changes with my current sandbox. An update -r old.rev will fix
things up, but it sets a sticky tag.
That's exactly what you want.
I'll probably forget (call it a senior moment :-) to update -A
until
At 19:30 -0400 4/13/02, Matthew Persico wrote:
I have written a perl script that wraps cvs status in order to add two new
switches:
-i for interesting - skip all the Up-to-date entries, just show me
everything else.
-s for short - skip the equals signs, the versions, etc. Just show me
directory
At 13:17 +0200 4/24/02, Janning Vygen wrote:
How can i easily remove all files in a sandbox which are
1. not yet registered in the repository via cvs add /cvs import
2. are ignored by .cvsignore or internal ignore list (like .o ~ etc.)
Use cvs -nq update and look at the lines that begin with a
At 0:42 +0200 4/26/02, Andreas Thalau wrote:
We have a dozen (the number is continuously growing) projects with five
up to ten sub-modules for each project in one repository and the modules
file is getting more and more unreadable. This is why we like to have
it separated into one file per
At 12:55 +0200 5/14/02, juhas wrote:
Hi,
is there any simple way how to keep unix ends of lines (eolns) in
the repository?
...
Is it possible to set/write a trigger which would convert eolns
in text files during cvs checkin?
If not, is there another chance?
Use CVSROOT/commitinfo to run a script
For *.h and *.cpp files, add the following lines
/*
$Log$
*/
This will cause problems when you merge branches, though. Check to
see if the auditors will accept the result of the following command:
cvs log *.h *.cpp
At 9:31 -0300 5/16/02, gaelen gallashant wrote:
I am a
At 12:54 -0500 5/20/02, Veronica Zhu wrote:
I use Java Runtime.getRuntime().exec() to execute a shell script.
...
It works great for all files EXCEPT huge binary files whose size is
about 70 Mega Bytes. The directory, which should contain those
large files, was checkout as an empty directory.
If your module has no revisions ``or anything'', what do you expect to
export from it!?!?!?!
H. Maybe he really wants the checkout command so he can put
something in the module?
cvs co MODULE-NAME
Fred
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Apple has published a How-To document for using CVS with Mac OS X
(a.k.a. Unix).
http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/cvsoverview.html
I thought this might be of interest to people on this list.
Fred
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I got a loginfo generated mail message that contained:
Directory /long/path/to$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/Emptydir/junk added to the repository
It seems to me like this is either 1) a user mistake or 2) a CVS bug,
but not 3) nothing to be concerned about.
The user who caused this message also created a
At 9:13 -0700 6/20/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The kicker is
that this person is in Creative Services and needs to use a Macintosh
(running OS X 10.1.5) for their other duties within the company.
Is CVS a reasonable solution to this problem?
For giving a Mac user access to a CVS repository?
At 12:54 -0400 7/24/02, Martin d'Anjou wrote:
The filesystem is only running filesystem stuff, nothing else. I need to
check with my network admin if we're allowed to run a CVS daemon on the
file server itself. What if I picked a server closer to the fileserver
instead?
We have a similar setup.
At 02:53 PM 8/10/2002 +0530, Jayashree wrote:
Is there any way by which I can check for tab characters,#if 0's in
a file while checking in.
Also, can somebody let me know if the file format can be checked while
chcking in.
This is to avoid Ctrl-M characters when a file is versionised in dos
From: Christian Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
the problem I have is that these files often gets generated
when there is nothing changed to them (it is part of some compilation
sections) what happens is that I get new generated files that
has only
one difference, a remark in
From: Riechers, Matthew W
Again, why does something generated by a build need to be revision
controlled?
I wrote:
The generated files don't need to be revision controlled, but they need to
be available to people or tools who cannot run the tool that generates the
files. The most convenient
At 07:06 AM 8/22/2002 -0700, Noel Yap wrote:
Have you tried:
1. Version control the generated file.
Yes, I version control a canonical form of the generated file.
2. Build the generated file if the necessary tools are
available.
The tool does this without asking when it is run. It's a GUI,
At 07:12 AM 8/22/2002 -0700, Noel Yap wrote:
I don't understand, if Makefile.cache has to be in
synch with the other files:
1. Why are there systems that are able to commit, but
can't build Makefile.cache?
There are no such systems. I'm not sure where my text misled you into
thinking that, but
At 04:52 PM 8/22/2002 +0200, Christian Andersson wrote:
I asked for a sollution to MY problem, not to a different problem with how
things are set up, so why not ignore why, and how and just answer my problem?
OK.
Is it possible for cvs to ignore certain rows in a file when comparing for
At 04:04 AM 8/27/2002, Isaac Claymore wrote:
My situation is: 3 projects, A, B and C, share a common library
X. They all need to make changes to libX, so I forked 3 branches
from libX main trunk: branch-A, branch-B and branch-C.
Any hint or suggestion is greatly appreciated ;)
At 06:59 AM 8/27/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
I've been lurking on the list for a while,
and have noticed that many of the questions
seem to hinge on text files and storing and
extracting them the right way for your platform.
The CVS clients already do this. The problem comes when people use a
At 09:20 AM 8/27/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
JH:
This is exactly how CVS works now, except that the format
used in the repo is fixed to be the unixish text file format.
Disclaimer about the CVS NT server: this may or may not be true...I don't know.
Even when the client and server are
At 10:35 AM 8/28/2002, Jayashree wrote:
I am using Wincvs1.1 version.
I tried to checkout a x.zip file into my local directory.
But I get an error when I try to open the zip file.
Please note that in Linux I am able to co and open the zip file without any
problem.
Why is it giving error in
At 09:58 PM 8/28/2002, Matthew Herrmann wrote:
re this conversation of file types -- why autodetect them, isn't that the
whole point
of a file type, given in every file's extension? heuristic detection of
binariness -- yuck!
Exactly!
a mechanism already exists to tell with this problem -- why
At 01:06 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote:
Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods
mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file. Still, both
of these methods are client side and their success depends
upon software (e.g. Perl) that may or may not be present on
client machines.
At 01:33 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote:
At 01:06 PM 9/3/2002, Douglas Finkle wrote:
Yes, you're right... you can use either of the two methods
mentioned, 'cvs status', or the Entries file. Still, both
of these methods are client side and their success depends
upon software (e.g.
At 01:58 AM 9/13/2002, Matthew Herrmann wrote:
cvs co proj
cd proj
release PROJ_V_1_1_1
which does:
cvs co -rPROJ_V_1_1_1 -d%TEMP%\proj_temp
cd %TEMP%\proj_temp
build
the problem is that since the checkout happened inside the project folder,
the temp directory gets added to the entries folder
At 02:57 PM 9/17/2002, Matthew Navarre wrote:
Could someone explain to me the issues with mounting the repo via a network
filesystem?
Here's what happened to us: a file was corrupted and we could not recover
older versions. (Our backup administrator failed to verify that the backup
system was
At 04:10 PM 9/17/2002, Matthew Navarre wrote:
That's why I'm basically collecting ammo. They want us to use wincvs with a
SMB mounted repo. Since I use FreeBSD this presents something of a problem.
Bad, bad, very bad idea. I hope you have enough ammo, now.
Have a CVS server running on the same
At 04:54 PM 9/17/2002, Larry Jones wrote:
Frederic Brehm writes:
The technical reason for the failure has to do with locking in the
repository. Locking is a tricky thing to do in a distributed system.
Implementations often have subtle bugs.
A number of people have now said
At 08:01 PM 9/17/2002, Adam Bregenzer wrote:
AFIAK the issue is not with where the working copy is stored, as long as
you are the only one accessing the working copy. The issue is where the
repository is stored/accessed from.
That's correct. I misunderstood the original question and thought it
At 02:33 PM 9/25/2002, Matt Lyon wrote:
Is there a way to share a single source file across multiple directories
in CVS, so that if it gets committed/merged in one directory the update
registers in both locations? I know that VSS has this concept, and was
wondering if CVS offers any sort of
I suppose that I could change the process so that we tag everything,
Yes, you should. CVS tags do not identify change sets. CVS tags identify
versions.
for every patch but then how can I easily know what was actually
changed in this particular tag.
Use two tags: one tag on everything to
You can use the keyword $Revision$ as explained in cederqvist (§12).
Though I've read unhappy comments about this feature in this list.
I don't remember many unhappy comments about $Rev$ or its cousins $Id$ and
$Name$. There are many reasons to avoid $Log$, though.
Fred
At 10:15 AM 9/26/2002, Jay Yarbrough wrote:
To build release 2.1 of Product Y, I will use release 3.4 of product A,
release 5.3 of product B, and release 2.0 of product D.
How is this typically handled within CVS?
Make each product a separate module. Then you can tag each release of each
At 12:57 PM 9/27/2002, Mullican, Catherine wrote:
Some files were checked in with the permissions set to 644. They need to be
755. I tried changing the permissions, making some whitespace changes, and
checking the files back in, but they're still 644 on checkout. Other files
in the project
At 10:32 AM 10/1/2002, Jayashree wrote:
Can I cvs import symbolically linked directories or linked files in a
directory?
No. At least it shouldn't. I haven't tried to do that. Maybe you'll get the
linked file or directory in the repository, but you won't get a link.
CVS does not manage
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 codes don't survive a pass through
the CVS repository (they are empty when
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
At 01:49 PM 10/14/2002, Anne McCaffrey wrote:
To implement additional security, I have made all
Attic directories in the repository read only
...
but today when a developer tried to
add a new file,cvs add was aborted with the
error,Cannot read Attic directory.Permission denied.
Only when I gave
At 03:08 PM 10/25/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suppose I was experimenting with a few
cvs features and later wanted to delete
any record of my checkins and updates etc.
...
Is this everything? Is there a better way?
Make a private repository with just the module you are interested in and
At 11:06 AM 11/7/2002, Brian Kowald wrote:
I have added a perl script to checkoutlist in CVSROOT. When its extracted,
it does not have the execute permission. Is there a way to get ot to extract
with the execute permission, or would I have to have a script triggered off
of somewhere to modify the
At 10:51 AM 12/12/2002, Phil R Lawrence wrote:
Now, about security. We would be a multi-client shop, so I need SSH to
encrypt sign-on info. Also, to make auditors very happy, we need to grant
and deny write security to various projects in the repository.
We are a multi-client shop, too. We
At 10:25 AM 3/7/2003, you wrote:
I was thinking the file itself would get updated, not just the ,v file.
If the file is in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT, then you need to put the name of the
file in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/checkoutlist. See
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC176
If the file
At 10:08 AM 6/5/2003, Larry Jones wrote:
There's nothing I hate more than software that thinks it
knows more than I do and refuses to let me do what I want to do.
The principal of least surprises should be Commandment #1 of the Software
Engineers Ten Commandments (requirements for the other nine
At 01:14 PM 6/4/2003, Eric Siegerman wrote:
Occasionally one might want a sticky tag on HEAD -- probably not
for an entire sandbox, but for a file or two. This came up a
couple of months ago:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-04/msg00023.html
(The only reason I didn't suggest
At 11:47 AM 6/13/2003, Andy Kriger wrote:
I am trying to setup our Unix-based CVS repository to run dos2unix when
files are committed, but I'm not having much luck and don't see any solution
laid out clearly in the mailing lists.
Don't attempt to use a commitinfo script to change a file being
At 03:25 PM 6/13/2003, Andy Kriger wrote:
As background, what is prompting this need is multiple developers with
different IDEs making connections to CVS. Since there's no way to be sure
what line format is being used, I'm looking for consistency.
Good luck.
The way to decrease the chances of
At 06:30 AM 6/18/2003, Patrick Kennedy wrote:
Is it possible to add custom fields to the repository?
No. But CVS is open source so you can extend it yourself if you are inclined.
I want to attach some meta data (eg: description, synopsis etc) to files in
the repository,
If you want to keep
Lots and lots of people keep asking:
Is there any way to detect
files in dos format during check-in.
and I'm tired of it. So, here's the solution
The script pasted below should do the trick. I cut it down from a larger
one that has more options, so try it first. The comments should tell you
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.
I would like changes to propagate to the script directory immediately.
Everytime someone commits, an update would be executed in the script
directory. Is that possible?
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_18.html#SEC173
At 04:15 AM 1/20/2004, Andy Jones wrote:
am I right in thinking that Greg's opinion does not reflect the majority
view?
No.
And besides, Greg is one of the resident experts on CVS. Listen to him.
Fred
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At 10:58 AM 1/28/2004, Les Spam wrote:
We have been having trouble with line endings because we check out files
on a Linux server and zip them up for download by users who do not have
CVS clients. Win9x users end up with line oriented text files that do not
parse because the scanner sees one
At 02:47 PM 2/16/2004, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
I was hoping to conditionally tag each module, by checking the exit
status of cvs diff -r tag_from_last_build, but it seems to return 1
even when there are no differences (I tried cvs diff, and it returned
zero--which makes sense because I hadn't
At 05:27 PM 2/18/2004, Frederic Brehm wrote:
Perhaps it is really, really simple:
cat .symlinks | xargs ln -s
I should never do this just before leaving for home. :-(
That won't work. This has a better chance
#! /bin/bash
for file in $(cat .symlinks); do
At 04:58 PM 2/18/2004, Eric Siegerman wrote:
a simple mechanism has been implemented
Perhaps it is really, really simple:
cat .symlinks | xargs ln -s
Fred
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At 10:57 AM 2/20/2004, Euan Guttridge wrote:
Has anybody come across a shell script to parse a large number of text
files, removing the CVS keyword replacement lines (all containing $Id:)?
For example
input:
package com.shop.backoffice;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
/**
*
At 09:54 AM 2/19/2004, Phil Labonte wrote:
if I want to check out a previous version of one of the files how could I
check out the corresponding versions of the other files
Look at cvs tag
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Has anyone setup loginfo to produce an RSS feed?
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
It seems that this might be a good alternative to using mail for notifying
developers of changes in the repository.
Fred
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At 02:31 PM 3/24/2004, Steve deRosier wrote:
To cleanup your current problem, I'd sugest have your Linux guys check out
the files, run them through dos2unix until the files are cleaned up, check
them in, and then you need to do an update or checkout without that box
checked.
You might also want
How is this the grep command? It doesn't support regular expressions which
is kind of the whole point of grep isn't it?
If you're lucky (!) enough to have a Windows 2K box handy, type help
findstr in a DOS window. You'll see that it does support regular
expressions. However, the way the
At 10:24 AM 4/22/2004, Doug Lee wrote:
I've seen this kind of thing when the CVS server is a Unix variant,
the client is in Windows, and the client's CVS\entries file contains
file names in a different case than the actual names on the Unix host.
Could another cause be a server clock that is two
At 08:59 AM 4/23/2004, Gurpreet Singh (SCM) wrote:
I have observed that code get from a branch is taking lot of time if
compared to that involved in from the Main tree.
CVS uses the rcs file format to store files in the repository. The
doc/RCSFILES document in the CVS source tree describes how
At 03:58 PM 5/13/2004, kj wrote:
I have a whole bunch of source code that I have been committing to
one repository, and now I'm supposed to switch my commits to another
(pre-existing) repository (long story). I know that I can just
use cvs -d second_repo import, but I'm concerned about losing
a
At 09:43 AM 5/10/2004, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
I wonder if this could be solved by modifying the behaviour of .cvsignore -
if we could tell CVS to ignore *files* named 'core' but not *directories*
named 'core', then the problem would go away altogether.
We still need a way to ignore directories, though.
At 09:18 AM 5/14/2004, kj wrote:
Wow! Let me make sure I have this straight: do you mean that
instead of doing
...
...(and losing all history info in the process, I suppose) I could
simply do this
% cp -pr original_repo/myproj new_repo
Yup! You're a quick study. You get an A. :-)
% rm -rf
Jim.Hyslop wrote:
Well, let's see. I don't use WinCVS, but my first guess ...
At 02:07 PM 5/14/2004, Paul Levin wrote:
Are you referring to a different FAQ?
You've probably exhausted the knowledge of people on this mailing list. You
can find the right mailing list for your question at
At 06:19 PM 5/3/2004, Paul Levin wrote:
I can write the asp or perl web page, but how to I get the WinCVS
update functionality from a command line?
Download version 1.2 of WinCVS
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cvsgui/WinCvs120.zip?download
It contains a cvs.exe file.
Put it in
At 10:06 AM 5/6/2004, J Krugman wrote:
For reasons that I'm not too clear on, my supervisor has instructed
me that he must review my code before each submission to the off-site
CVS repository, and he wants to do this once a week. My only
problem with this is that, even when I am the only
At 08:03 PM 5/18/2004, Hon Seng Phuah wrote:
For example, if five developers check in five different copied of
abc.c at very short delay. I expect to check out abc.c file and rename
them as abc.c.1, abc.c.2, abc.c.3, abc.c.4 and abc.c.5 respectively in
a particular directory.
Cvs doesn't have this
At 09:43 AM 5/19/2004, bill wrote:
What is the best way to arrange things such that, at build time,
I can check out only those files that are part of the distribution?
Repeat after me: CVS is not a Configuration Management System.
Good.
Now, here's a couple of ways you can use CVS as part of a CM
At 10:28 PM 5/21/2004, Greg A. Woods wrote:
If this isn't blatantly obvious to everyone who knows that CVS uses
It's not blatantly obvious that everyone knows how CVS works.
There's a lot of people here who are very smart people and very talented
developers but view CVS as a black box. There's
At 01:31 PM 5/26/2004, Irving Kimura wrote:
the difference between update and checkout
Checkout creates a brand new sandbox (working directory) from some version
of files in the repository. Usually this is the HEAD version, but you can
specify others.
Update makes the files in an existing
At 09:02 AM 6/2/2004, Ramanuj Singh wrote:
name of branch or tag, date on which it was created, the author name and
the name of the module
CVS stores that information in the history file (cvs history -aT). A script
that parses the output has to be aware that individual files can be tagged,
not
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