Re: (no subject)

2001-04-19 Thread Frank Derichsweiler
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NEED HELP ON WINCVS1.2

2001-04-19 Thread Mahesh Anantharaman
Hello, Does anyone know of a user manual or guide for WinCVS 1.2?. The one that is available on the www.wincvs.org website is for version 1.1. I am a total novice as far as CVS and WinCVS is concerned, and I have been asked to do some research on how to use WinCVS 1.2. Could you please tell me

Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread Maarten de Boer
Hello, We are using CVS, for several projects, with great pleasure. We now have the need to store and track revisions of large binary files (audio analysis data). Because we are already familiar with CVS, and use it with clients on various platforms, we would like to use CVS for this data as

Terminology

2001-04-19 Thread Graeme . Vetterlein
Simple question really "So what is the repository?" Now I thought I knew the answer to this: (chapter 2 Version Management with CVS 1.10.6): "...so the repository :local:/usr/local/cvsroot means ..." "The repository is split into two parts $CVSROOT/CVSROOT contains

directory addition

2001-04-19 Thread JavaSoft
Thank you sir. now i am understand ... now.. last question if your dont mind.. if my friend added a directory(not empty directory) to CVS server.. how can i get the new directory to my local hard disk ?? should i check out the whole module everytime a new directory added ?? or can i just check

How can one mark a file as binary after importing it

2001-04-19 Thread Paulo Bras
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A problem with CVS commands that modify the repository

2001-04-19 Thread Reinstein, Shlomo
Hi, We've been working on our CVS repository for a while, and everything used to be ok. Starting today, we are getting messages like the following: cvs [commit aborted]: could not open lock file `some-path-in-the-repository/some-file,' : File exists We got similar messages when trying to tag the

RE: WinCVS and MacCVS Logins

2001-04-19 Thread Brad Pfautsch
Yes, using TCP compression, set to 5. No load on the server, haven't put it into production use yet and connection is over LAN at 100 Mbits. It is really strange. It seems to be erratic. For instance, this morning I logged in and it took a minute and a half. I restarted the Linux server

Re: WinCVS and MacCVS Logins

2001-04-19 Thread David Fuller
Using TCP compression is a fine art. Finding the right setting based on network traffic can take quite sometime. Try other settings, including turning it off. The time cost in compressing the traffic may out-weigh the time savings in network traffic. Also, once you are logged in you stay

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread David H. Thornley
Maarten de Boer wrote: Hello, Obviously, storing all revisions entirely will not be very efficient. The data is pretty straigthforward, and the differences between versions could be extracted very well with Xdelta. So Xdelta integration in CVS seems to be the solution. Could be.

rdiff without -c option

2001-04-19 Thread Kudiyarasan
Hi all , As a new user to CVS , I do not know how to get rdiff with "-bBw " option instead of "-c" . How can I get this ? . Thanks Regards, Kudiyarasan ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Terminology

2001-04-19 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simple question really "So what is the repository?" It all depends on context. In general, "the repository" is a collection of revision histories of files. The term is also used (imprecisely) to mean the location of that collection, the name of that location, or a

Re: A problem with CVS commands that modify the repository

2001-04-19 Thread Larry Jones
Reinstein, Shlomo writes: My questions: 1. Should the files in the repository be writable? No. 2. How can it be that we used to commit and tag without a problem, and suddenly we are unable to do so (in the same repository directories)? Someone just adjusted the permissions on your

Is the pserver running without starting by inetd?

2001-04-19 Thread Dominik Kalb
Dear People, does anyone of you know, whether the pserver can start up without the inet deamon? I have an UNIX account to an internet server, but no access to the configuration files and my provider don't want setup the neccessary configurations. (security doubt) So, is it possible to start a

$Name $ and branches

2001-04-19 Thread David D. Hagood
I'm a little confused by an aspect of CVS: If I have a file that contains the $Name: $ keyword, and that file is checked out under a normal, non-branch tag FOO, the keyword will be expanded as $Name: FOO$. However, if the tag is a branch, the keyword won't be expanded. Is there some logic

Re: general organization of CVS modules

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Fran Fabrizio wrote: Hello all, I have a couple of general questions. 1. Say I have a web project that consists of some CGI scripts and some static pages. The CGI scripts are in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/, the static pages are in /usr/local/apache/htdocs. I want to make it all one

Passwd file

2001-04-19 Thread Nigel Morse
I've set up CVS for remote repository, and I can login using a system user account (i.e. my own) but I want to use separate passwords and have CVS run as a common user so I can tighten permissions (more to prevent accidental deletation). I created a $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file with just

Re: applying astyle on commit

2001-04-19 Thread David Fuller
From cvs help: The commitinfo file defines programs to execute whenever cvs commit is about to execute. These programs are used for pre-commit checking to verify that the modified, added and removed files are really ready to be committed. This could be used, for instance, to verify that the

RE: commit -m Line One\rLineTwo

2001-04-19 Thread Andy Baker
Or ksh... $ cvs commit -m"$(echo "Line One\nLineTwo")" file Andy -Original Message- From: Gianni Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 April 2001 15:26 To: James A. N. Stauffer; CVS Subject: RE: commit -m "Line One\rLineTwo" It seems this depends more on your shell

Re: Passwd file

2001-04-19 Thread Larry Jones
David Fuller writes: You'll have to turn off system auth for the passwd file to start working right. Wrong -- CVS always looks at the repository passwd file. If SystemAuth is set to true, the system passwd file is only consulted if the repository password file doesn't exist or it doesn't

Re: Is the pserver running without starting by inetd?

2001-04-19 Thread Larry Jones
Dominik Kalb writes: does anyone of you know, whether the pserver can start up without the inet deamon? It needs something to manage the connection details for it. You can run a private copy of inetd without being root as long as you use your own configuration file instead of using the

Re: removing a directory

2001-04-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:55:17AM +, JavaSoft wrote: How can i delete a drectory (including the contents) from CVS on linux server using wincvs without deleting the directory in my local hard disk ? so it's just delete in the linux not in my local hardisk so i can to re-ADDing the

Re: Val-tags file

2001-04-19 Thread Larry Jones
Rui Cordeiro writes: Does anyone may explain me which is the val-tags file syntax ? Each line consists of a valid tag name followed by a space and the letter "y". This file is used by the CVS in which situations? It is only used to store the tags and branch names that are in use? Branch

Re: rdiff without -c option

2001-04-19 Thread Larry Jones
Kudiyarasan writes: As a new user to CVS , I do not know how to get rdiff with "-bBw " option instead of "-c" . How can I get this ? . You have to use diff instead of rdiff. -Larry Jones These pictures will remind us of more than we want to remember. -- Calvin's Mom

RE: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread ljnelson
= Original Message From "David H. Thornley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = It would still mean changing the RCS format, and that may be a problem. If Xdelta provides its own archive file format, it is unlikely to be compatible with RCS, and it would be necessary (at the very least) to have some

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 11:16:31 (+0200), Maarten de Boer wrote: ] Subject: Xdelta and CVS We are using CVS, for several projects, with great pleasure. We now have the need to store and track revisions of large binary files (audio analysis data). Because we are already familiar

Re: directory addition

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 10:06:30 (GMT), JavaSoft wrote: ] Subject: directory addition now.. last question if your dont mind.. if my friend added a directory(not empty directory) to CVS server.. how can i get the new directory to my local hard disk ?? should i check out the whole

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 09:23:34 (-0500), David H. Thornley wrote: ] Subject: Re: Xdelta and CVS CVS uses diff in different ways. One is to keep the revision history files relatively small, and one is to merge changes. I looked at the web pages to see if there was some Xdelta

Re: directory addition

2001-04-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:29:26PM +0200, Matthias Kranz wrote: Usage: cvs update [-APdflRp] [-k kopt] [-r rev|-D date] [-j rev] [-I ign] [-W spec] [files...] -d Build directories, like checkout does. Which is pretty unclear. You have to already know what it means to understand it.

UCE Complaint (Re: Xdelta and CVS)

2001-04-19 Thread Christopher Fogarty
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RE: WinCVS and MacCVS Logins

2001-04-19 Thread Jerry Nairn
If you haven't already, you may want to send this question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] also. And always include as much information as you can. Jerry From: David Fuller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:05 AM Brad Pfautsch wrote: Brad Pfautsch wrote: Logins take

UCE Complaint (Re: $Name $ and branches)

2001-04-19 Thread Christopher Fogarty
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Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread Maarten de Boer
Dear Greg, Thank you very much for your answer. It certainly sheds a whole different light on things. I will notify the webmaster of the mentioned page that the information provided there is misleading, and pass your comments, if you don't mind. What I don't get, is why the whole structure of

Re: $Name $ and branches

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 11:01:27 (-0500), David D. Hagood wrote: ] Subject: $Name $ and branches Is there some logic behind this behavior? For some of what I am doing, I'd really like to have the $Name$ be replaced with the branch tag. In CVS $Name is really only intended to be

Re: applying astyle on commit

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 18:47:33 (+0200), Maarten de Boer wrote: ] Subject: applying astyle on commit So my question is: how can I do this? Doing it client side is not really an option, because we use different platforms, and besides, doing it server-side assures correct usage of

UCE Complaint (Re: applying astyle on commit)

2001-04-19 Thread Christopher Fogarty
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Re: UCE Complaint (Re: applying astyle on commit)

2001-04-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
Then may I suggest that you unsubscribe from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not spam all of *us* with these bounce messages (three of which have appeared in my inbox in the last half hour). Thank you. On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:59:49PM -0400, Christopher Fogarty wrote: You have sent the attached

not able to see the messages in the group..

2001-04-19 Thread mm rao
Hi, I subsribed to this group. But my new messages are not showing in the yahoo groups( inf-cvs)? What could be the reason. Thanks MM. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 20:42:51 (+0200), Maarten de Boer wrote: ] Subject: Re: Xdelta and CVS Thank you very much for your answer. It certainly sheds a whole different light on things. I will notify the webmaster of the mentioned page that the information provided there is

RE: checkout with -D resurrects deleted files

2001-04-19 Thread Bruce Tiffany
Hi, I believe I've found the source of my confusion. When a file is deleted in CVS, then revised by another user, cvs checkout will not produce the file, however cvs checkout -D now will. I'm uncertain if that's a bug or a feature, use of checkout -D ... seems to be the safer way to go. Here

RE: Passwd file

2001-04-19 Thread Nigel Morse
Cheers for this. It wasn't liking the blank password which I couldn't figure out as that was in the manual. I'd just assumed that I had the latest version but couldn't check coz "cvs version" didn't work!! Ironic really, given that when set up no one will have a blank password - just never

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread David H. Thornley
"Greg A. Woods" wrote: [ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 11:16:31 (+0200), Maarten de Boer wrote: ] Subject: Xdelta and CVS We are using CVS, for several projects, with great pleasure. We now have the need to store and track revisions of large binary files (audio analysis data).

$Name $ in branches

2001-04-19 Thread David D. Hagood
I disagree with Mr. Woods on this: adding the branch ID to a build makes sense in my environment: I have several developers, each working on their own branch of an embedded system. As needed, the load their code into target systems for development. Since the number of developers is larger

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:47:14PM -0500, David H. Thornley wrote: (How rapid [-ly an xdelta-capable CVS was accepted by the world at large] depends partly on how effective the merging was, which is to say whether two changes in a file can be merged to produce another useful file. It would

Re: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 16:12:25 (-0500), David D. Hagood wrote: ] Subject: $Name $ in branches I disagree with Mr. Woods on this: adding the branch ID to a build makes sense in my environment: I have several developers, each working on their own branch of an embedded system. As

RE: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-19 Thread Jerry Nairn
I haven't tried it, but it looks like the $State$ keyword could provide the functionality you're looking for. See: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_12.html#SEC98 and http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC120 Jerry ___ Info-cvs

Re: Is the pserver running without starting by inetd?

2001-04-19 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 17:57 +0200, Dominik Kalb wrote: does anyone of you know, whether the pserver can start up without the inet deamon? Of course. Run any inetd like program listening to network sockets and handing them to newly created processes at request. Another x?inetd instance or

Re: Repository Migration...

2001-04-19 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:49 -0700, mm rao wrote: I am are trying to move the repository to a brand new machine where the cvs-1.11 is installed( current ver 1.9). Can anybody please help me in expalining, the steps need to be followed and waht all needs to be taken care? In a decent setup

RE: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 18:19:04 (-0700), Jerry Nairn wrote: ] Subject: RE: $Name $ in branches I haven't tried it, but it looks like the $State$ keyword could provide the functionality you're looking for. Take care because $State is also used internally in CVS. Probably the most

Installing cvs on Solaris 2.6

2001-04-19 Thread Srimal Gunawardena
PROBLEM TARGET = I want to connect to a CVS installed on a Solaris through a wincvs front End running on a NT m/c. ERROR = I can't configure CVS on SOLARIS 2.6. Login Faliure [ Within the solaris - itself ]. Please send me a correct Manual for installation and advice. Here is what I did so

Problem in Installing CVS on Solaris 2.6

2001-04-19 Thread Srimal Gunawardena
PROBLEM TARGET = I want to connect to a CVS installed on a Solaris through a wincvs front End running on a NT m/c. ERROR = I can't configure CVS on SOLARIS 2.6. Login Faliure [ Within the solaris - itself ]. Please send me a correct Manual for installation and advice. Here is what I did so

Re:directory addition

2001-04-19 Thread JavaSoft
Dear all, Thank you so much for all your answers .. i get it now .. thx, a Java Addicted --- Runbox Mail Manager - www.runbox.com Free online email application ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: directory addition

2001-04-19 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:06:30AM +, JavaSoft wrote: now.. last question if your dont mind.. if my friend added a directory(not empty directory) to CVS server.. how can i get the new directory to my local hard disk ?? should i check out the whole module everytime a new directory added ??

Re: WinCVS and MacCVS Logins

2001-04-19 Thread David Fuller
My first two ideas: 1) slow connection/heavy load server? 2) Are you using TCP compression? -- David F. Brad Pfautsch wrote: Logins take upwards of two minutes to receive the *CVS exited normally with code 0* message. Any idea's why/how to fix?

Re: WinCVS and MacCVS Logins

2001-04-19 Thread Donald Sharp
It would be awfull darn usefull if you gave us something to work with here. What version of cvs are you running, on the server? What os and version are you running on the server? Do other commands complete faster? donald On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:35:34AM -0500, Brad Pfautsch wrote: Logins

RE: directory addition

2001-04-19 Thread TTaylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Use the following CVS command: cvs update -d -P from the top directory of your sandbox. The -d option tells CVS to create directories that have been added to the repository that don't exist in your sandbox and the -P tells CVS to delete directories

Re: Passwd file

2001-04-19 Thread David Fuller
You'll have to turn off system auth for the passwd file to start working right. You'll also probably want to put something in the password area. Even a blank password has a crypted value. -- David F. Nigel Morse wrote: I've set up CVS for remote repository, and I can login using a system

Re: directory addition

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Helmer
There's no need to do a new checkout, just do an update -d and it will check out the new directory. Keep in mind, however, that there must be a file in the new directory, or it will not be updated. HTH, Rob Helmer Namodn On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:06:30AM +, JavaSoft wrote: Thank you

applying astyle on commit

2001-04-19 Thread Maarten de Boer
Hello, We use some strict rules on code layout, but of course people sometimes make mistakes. Luckily, astyle does a great job in layouting automatically. So I would like to apply astyle on all the code that is commited to the repository, so the code inside the repository is always correct.

Repository Migration...

2001-04-19 Thread mm rao
Hi, I am are trying to move the repository to a brand new machine where the cvs-1.11 is installed( current ver 1.9). Can anybody please help me in expalining, the steps need to be followed and waht all needs to be taken care? We have got too many number of users. What is the best plan to

Val-tags file

2001-04-19 Thread Rui Cordeiro
Hi, Does anyone may explain me which is the val-tags file syntax ? This file is used by the CVS in which situations? It is only used to store the tags and branch names that are in use? Thanks in advance. Rui Cordeiro ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Xdelta and CVS

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 15:47:14 (-0500), David H. Thornley wrote: ] Subject: Re: Xdelta and CVS More accurately, it meets requirements in a rather bad way, using a lot of disk space and offering little benefit you wouldn't get by gzipping and backing up the data regularly. Yeah,