Hello, is I see from my own inbox and from the archive http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-03/index.html, the mail did no go through to the list: Furthermore, I found out that it would be
Hello, I'm using cvs import for the first time, so I have a question on this. I started importing a project with is some years old and has not been managed by CVS so far into CVS. The project regular
Merging multible branches. PROBLEM: I loose my merged branch changes if another branch is merged to the trunk afterward. QUESTION: How does CVS merge a branch, if multible branch points exists on the
Yes, use the command: cvs up -j1.2 -j1.1 filename to merge into your working copy of the file a version that tries to remove the change introduced by version 1.2. You will still need to resolve any c
If you really want to do that simply force commit all you files with revision number 2.1. But do not forget that revision numbering is for internal purposes of CVS first of all. You can't do that di
Hi folks, I'm having the following problem, and I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on it, or offer any suggestions or things to try. I have cvs (from the current cygwin distribution) set up o
I hesitate to even raise this question at all for fear that the CVS gods will flame me into oblivion. But, I have been RTFM for about 2 months now as well as searching the web repeatedly. However I h
Hello, Why do so many on the list poo-poo using binaries in CVS? If you accept the fact that you are using non-text files, use cvswrappers and/or the "cvs admin" command knowledgably. Since the file
Miguel, I reported this same problem in August 1999. cvs rtag: cannot exec /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT/taginfo_filter: Arg list too long cvs rtag: Pre-tag check failed cvs [rtag aborted]: correct the
For being able to recover the state of the project as of a certain milestone, tags are *much* better than dates. That said, I too sometimes want to be able to backdate a commit, not for recoverabilit
Heh. So I'm not so off-track. This is basically what I have ended up doing, and have recommended to others... Let's say the project/contract is FOO. The branches are 'bar' and 'baz', with my primary
What do you mean by different releases? How we do it is that, when we are ready to call what's on the main trunk a release (i.e., it has the functionality it needs), we cut a release branch. It's ge
yes, actually it is. you want me to look at the world through the tool-imposed blinders. no way. these files are the same, period. the issue is that CVS does not recognize that. Actually, now that t
Details : Below is session saved with "script" (unnecessary stuff removed of cource for clarity), U can see some addional info that is printed from loginfo script... Don't worry about "typescript" it
Yes, this is one of the lame things about cvs log. (Hmm... What happens if you turn off the headers?) I wrote a wrapper script cvslog.pl which eliminates the non-relevant junk, that is, the files for
Kind sirs and madams, I'm having a very odd problem with CVS on my Windows 98 SE box. I'm using Cygwin, with CVS 1.11 installed on it. For the most part it works great, but I'm having one small diffi
As with CVS, TCCS sits on top of RCS and therefore, you still have many of the same issues with binary files. -Scott Hello, all, Ah, I am learning something here! The primary problem with simply stor
Hello, all, Ah, I am learning something here! The primary problem with simply storing and retrieving binary files is that there is a finite probability that one day a binary file will simply refuse t
[ On Friday, July 20, 2001 at 08:41:53 (-0400), Ralph Mack wrote: ] No, sorry, you are very wrong. The diff program is always used to figure out what the delta between two revisions is, and RCS simpl
Not necessarily. RCS uses diff and diff3 in specific operations. It also does a lot of other things, like keeping track of what content belongs in each revision. To support binary files it is only n