Hi, I don't work with cvs import a lot and I am seeing this "strange scenario" today. I have 1.11.1.p1 on Linux. I created a vendor branch yesterday, and I did a cvs import on the same vendor branch
Hi, Terry: I've been experimenting with CVS import and I noticed some wierd behaviour. I'm not sure if it is due to me not knowing how to use it properly, or trying to do something that it isn't supp
I think that the server "writes back" the files to the client. Isn't this the way keywords are expanded on the client side once the checkin is through? Shubho --Original Message-- From: address@hidde
[ On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 15:12:06 (-0800), Thomas S. Urban wrote: ] Hmmm.... but that can happen only on the server. If you modify a file unbeknownst to the user doing a commit from a remote
Could you please elaborate? _Why_ is it illogical? _Why_ is it unnecessary? Let me try to repeat: FOO and BAR here are the same file (like compiler.lisp and compiler.lsp). If FOO is renamed to BAR w
sorry about the formatting trash I'll try again.... Hi Bill, Yes these are the kind of questions that are close to my heart too. I found that Fogel's book, while very good, didn't outline much about
Hi Bill, Yes these are the kind of questions that are close to my heart too. I found that Fogel's book, while very good, didn't outline much about 'release' strategies with CVS, and in any case Open
Hi! 1) My first problem is about commiting a file and other revisions are locked by me, too! To suppress the error-message "multiple revision locked by..." I try to change the function findlock_or_ti
True, but keep in mind that the use of diff in this context is simply for the storage and retrieval of files. CVS is good at this, and there's no debate to change this aspect of it. Where we get int
"Probably" does not cut it. The user has the final responsibility to decide what is acceptable to be committed, not CVS. BTW, does anyone commit the raw results of a merge, before resolving conflict
[ On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 at 08:50:34 (-0400), Ralph Mack wrote: ] There are two differences between Paul's example and the one I gave. One of those differences is irrelevant to this issue, and the
[ On Sunday, June 17, 2001 at 20:26:34 (-0400), Ralph Mack wrote: ] Yes, of course -- a rename is an addition "with all the old object's baggage"..... Funny you should mention that. A unix filesytem
I didn't what to get into the why's of what I ask. But it is to automate the SCM baseline/build/package process. See inline for more info below. I would like every file version to be mapped to at lea
That shouldn't cause the problem. A standard update uses the revision and not the date to compute the diff. All the date comparisons going on should be on the client against records of dates it set i
Steve, Stable, Feature - what's in a name? The 1.12 release has been in fairly wide use for some time and some Linux distribs are starting to ship it as standard. I had a hand in writing the book 'Al
Arthur Barrett wrote: An employee told my CIO that CVS is being phased out so he came and asked me about it. I am sure that is not the case for the immediate future from my research. Can anyone comme
Here's my scenario: we have a couple of hundred machine gen'd files. We are hand moding a couple of them. We also have a vendor who we originally we got the files from, who may also be moding a few o
<address@hidden> wrote in message news:address@hidden Is there any way to add a new directory between already existing directory structure IN CVS . Like I have directory structure "MyRepository/Conf
CVS does not perform revision control on directories, so if you have direct access to the repository files on the server, then you can do that by simply moving the directores around. However, be awar
Hello, looking through one blog I regularly visit, I found the following problem description about CVS: (http://kernelmustard.com/2006/06/20/the-hell-of-cvs/) The hell of CVS I.m a big CVS fan. Well,