How do I switch a file checked in (whether on purpose or inadvertently) from binary to plain text? I found this discussion, but it doesn't seem to be working as expected: http://groups.google.com/gro
James Depaul wrote, On 07/30/2007 10:49 AM: Few followup questions for clarification: Great, apparently I made things worse. :{ 1) I'm a bit confused about this statement: >>The 'cvs tag' command ope
Yeah, you should NEVER subvert internal cvs revision numbers unless you are an expert... and then, you should know better than to do it. Well, it is not impossible to do, you just never want to do it
Jacob, OK well there is a common ground then... In the CVS world the graphical front ends lead a life very separate to the actual engine (and tend to live several generations behind). It will probabl
This bug exists in CVS 1.11.1p1; it was tested on Solaris 7, but is probably system-independent. Under certain specific circumstances, "cvs status" does an "update". The circumstances are: - a file f
We needed this at work to suit our working environment. Maybe you do too. The CVS client always works with text files in the platform's native end-of-line style. On Win32 platforms, a line is ended w
You should ignore the revision numbers. CVS uses a detailed revision numbering scheme that allows it to keep track of branches. All you need to know is that after a commit, the revision number of the
I just checked in a change to allow '-q' to suppress those warnings. CVS will still exit with an error code, however. Not sure if this is optimal. Let me know. The patch against the dev version is at
Paul Sander <address@hidden> writes: On Jan 27, 2005, at 1:07 AM, address@hidden wrote: [...] Just to understand your point better, do you propose 'cvs add -c new_file' and 'cvs ci new_file' run exa
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:15:00 +0530, Shubhabrata Sengupta sent 3.1K bytes: This is true. Greg, I'm replying to your stuff here, since your message never appeared on my server. My experience is tha
I am trying to commit changes and I am not having much luck. first I tried to checkout a module, make a few changes and then commit it back and I get the following error. cvs commit -m "minor change"
There is no way to use CVS to store a file without a revision. You can manage the repository to contain only one revision, but it requires effort on your part, and depending on the scenario, could e
For the .jsp files specifically, could you put JSP comment tags (<%-- .. --%>) around the CVS keywords and any other sensitive text? ________________________________ Hi, I have a lot of files in CVS
Hi, I have a lot of files in CVS that are not compilable files. (e.g. *.html, *.jsp etc). I use the following template on each new file that is checked in to cvs. [code] File : $RCSfile$ ($Source$) S
Few followup questions for clarification: 1) I'm a bit confused about this statement: >>The 'cvs tag' command operates on your local sandbox.<< I've been following this CvS doc: http://cvsbook.red-be
Given that it is possible to have more than one 'corruption' in a given file, but that not all checks would be performed once some kind of corruption is detected, I am not certain how useful a keycod
I am not sure what I have done wrong here but this project is on the Trunk and now I have sticky tag 1.4. if I try to change the file and commit it I get this message: cvs commit: sticky tag `1.4' fo
Corey, Have a look at this http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.21/cvs_5.html#SEC54. It gives good overview of branching and merging. I personally find it less painful if development is done on the
Corey, Well that's only one way to use CC of course, I've used it a little and I know you don't have to do things that way (because I didn't) - I didn't get into the rational unified process enough t