Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:16:47PM -0400, Barrie Slaymaker wrote: > Adam Turoff wrote: > > Well, use CVS, not su. > > the su was for when not using the pserver, since I'm not sure whether CVS uses > your UID, or some environment variable to grab your user name when not using > the pserver. Oh, t

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Adam Turoff wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:59:09PM -0400, Barrie Slaymaker wrote: > > Adam Turoff wrote: > > > > Feedback welcome. > > > > > > I noticed that CVS reports this as part of the version logs: > > > > > > date: 2000/09/13 05:49:30; author: cvs; state: Exp; lines: +19 -19 > >

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:59:09PM -0400, Barrie Slaymaker wrote: > Adam Turoff wrote: > > > Feedback welcome. > > > > I noticed that CVS reports this as part of the version logs: > > > > date: 2000/09/13 05:49:30; author: cvs; state: Exp; lines: +19 -19 > > Yup: not sure how to orchestrate

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Adam Turoff wrote: > > > Feedback welcome. > > I noticed that CVS reports this as part of the version logs: > > date: 2000/09/13 05:49:30; author: cvs; state: Exp; lines: +19 -19 Yup: not sure how to orchestrate logging in to the server as different usernames, or su'ing to be different user

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:41:01AM -0400, Barrie Slaymaker wrote: > Some progress. Below is the cvs log from perl.c for the first 800 and some > changes. There's a few bugs to work out yet (including the one in VCP::Dest::cvs > that crapped out at change 871, but you get the idea. It's also not

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-13 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
I wrote: > > Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > > > > > > I see no reason why the perforce changes cannot be 'checked in' to CVS > > one-by-one so that CVS builds its own representation of the change history. > > I've got this working now in a program called 'vcp', I need to test > p4->cvs updates using

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-09 Thread iain truskett
* Nick Ing-Simmons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10 Sep 2000 06:38]: [...] > This is a feature of perforce that is useful - it can warn you that > you are about to change a file that someone else is already working > on. As can CVS. cheers, -- \def\Koschei{Iain Truskett}% http://eh

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-09 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > > > I see no reason why the perforce changes cannot be 'checked in' to CVS > one-by-one so that CVS builds its own representation of the change history. I've got this working now in a program called 'vcp', I need to test p4->cvs updates using the perl5 repository next

Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-09 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Bradley M . Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Adam Turoff wrote: > >> *: Sarathy tells me that Perforce sucks at maintaining thousands of >> anonymous checkouts, while CVS doesn't mind at all. This is a feature of perforce that is useful - it can warn you that you are about to change a file th

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:27 PM 9/8/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: > > "AT" == Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >AT> that is lost is who actually made any specific update; all changes >AT> are made by 'cvs-bot' or somesuch. > >Is this a programming issue? or something more fundemental. > >(is it time and

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-08 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "AT" == Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AT> that is lost is who actually made any specific update; all changes AT> are made by 'cvs-bot' or somesuch. Is this a programming issue? or something more fundemental. (is it time and effort or a mismatch between perforce and CVS?) -- Ch

Re: code repository

2000-09-08 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:24:05AM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote: > I'm really sorry to see people so anxious to favour commercial, > proprietary tools, even in this arena, [...] It isn't about favoritism. It isn't about commercial vs. open source. Perl is a pragmatic language. Perforce is a pra

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-08 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:30:38AM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Adam Turoff wrote: > > > *: Sarathy tells me that Perforce sucks at maintaining thousands of > > anonymous checkouts, while CVS doesn't mind at all. This is a perfect > > reason to use anon CVS vs. Perforce, but does not require