... I agree. The way to make this happen, roughly, is for people to start playing around with designs for an interface, implementations to try out, &c. See...
11125
Andy Piper
andyp@...
Jan 5, 1999 4:01 am
Hi there, Many open source projects provide access to their source code via remote cvs (usually pserver). Unfortunately, many people are prevented from using...
11126
Rob Nichols
rob@...
Jan 5, 1999 5:53 am
I've got what is probably a simple question about the log command. I've got a branch that indicates a 'release' of the code. I've since committed a few...
11127
Juergen A. Erhard
jae@...
Jan 5, 1999 5:53 am
... Is there an *easy* way to find out when the last cvs update was run in a sandbox? It is simple to find the most recent commit. (Just this `script': cat ...
11128
Kevin Layer
layer@...
Jan 5, 1999 8:11 am
... I'm a little surprised at this answer. The reason to use branches has nothing to do with the activity of development. It has to do with separating...
11129
Jari Aalto+.emacs
jari.aalto@...
Jan 5, 1999 8:27 am
I set up CVS 1.10 at my home PC (Win98/Emacs 20.3), Cygwin 19 (soon 20.1) and I'm carrying the development files from work to my home PC to be able to do win32...
11130
Jari Aalto+.emacs
jari.aalto@...
Jan 5, 1999 8:33 am
What strategy pepole use when they get sofware updates? I have the initial import done for the pcl-cvs 2.9.1 Emacs module in directory: lisp/pcl-cvs tagged as...
11131
Joerg Bullmann
joerg@...
Jan 5, 1999 8:34 am
... It should stay untouched if you don't get any updated files from the repository. Jörg P.S.: Grüße an Steffen Kirschke! Der müßte Dir doch...
11132
Kay Schulz
kay@...
Jan 5, 1999 9:47 am
Hi that would solve all our problems ... -- ICQ=6445186 AOL IM= KaySG ========= Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. Kay Schulz ...
11133
Georg Bolz
bol@...
Jan 5, 1999 10:03 am
I have a question using old CVS client software with new CVS server (1.10.4). All my clients run CVS 1.9 connecting actually to a CVS 1.9 server. Do I run into...
11134
Arthur, Simon (Atlanta)
Simon.Arthur@...
Jan 5, 1999 10:06 am
When compiling CVS version 1.10.4 on Solaris, the make died, complaining that it couldn't find "ar". We have ar on the machine, but it wasn't in the path. It...
11135
Eddy Pulido
EPULIDO@...
Jan 5, 1999 10:06 am
What's the easiest and fastest way of moving source files and directories to a new directory structure w/o losing log/history information on the files? (same...
11136
Kevin Layer
layer@...
Jan 5, 1999 10:07 am
Which reminds me of a question I've been wanting to ask (assuming that CVS sources are under CVS control somewhere): are releases of CVS done from a branch and...
11137
Jim Kingdon
kingdonc@...
Jan 5, 1999 10:07 am
... No, no, there's no reason to change the default. The issue is whether "cvs import -b 1" should do a main branch import. That strikes me as eminently...
11138
Jim Kingdon
kingdonc@...
Jan 5, 1999 10:11 am
... Yes, http://www.cyclic.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ccvs ... It has been suggested, but we haven't gotten around to doing it, at least not yet. Given that CVS is...
11139
Jari Aalto+list.cvs
jari.aalto@...
Jan 5, 1999 10:11 am
The tagging feature in CVS is best I've encountered after using RCS so long. I've used small awk script to print version trre summary for rcs files to keep...
11140
Noel Yap
nyap@...
Jan 5, 1999 2:50 pm
http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/acme/branching/ covers a lot of what Kevin (below) discusses. I would suggest creating a link from the CVS web page if it...
11141
The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@...
Jan 5, 1999 4:18 pm
Does anyone know if there is a y2k 'statement' available on the web, for cvs? Thanks... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary:...
... Naah, we'd just work around them :-(. Or more likely, never hit them. CVS just isn't a big enough project to be all that good a test bed. It may not seem...
11144
Jim Kingdon
kingdonc@...
Jan 5, 1999 4:45 pm
... Provided you tagged the branchpoint, the patch at http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/unoff-log.txt seems like it would do the trick. ... See if you'd be interested...
11145
Jim Kingdon
kingdonc@...
Jan 5, 1999 4:53 pm
... I haven't had time to read the whole thing, but yes this looks quite comprehensive. ... Not sure if you had a particular CVS web page in mind :-), but I...
11146
Kevin Layer
layer@...
Jan 5, 1999 6:42 pm
For all the work on branches, there are still problems. There will be problems with branches until you and the other developers that work on CVS use them. I...
11147
Kevin Layer
layer@...
Jan 5, 1999 6:42 pm
... I just skimmed the paper. Looks nice. My comments were just the tip of the iceberg compared to this paper. I definitely agree that there should be a link...
11148
Jim Kingdon
kingdonc@...
Jan 5, 1999 7:54 pm
... Good question. Jim Blandy did 1.9, but he now has a job and therefore isn't available. Noel Cragg did 1.10, and hopefully he will be available at some...
11149
Jason Armstrong
jason@...
Jan 7, 1999 1:31 am
Hi Is it possible to automate cvs login from shell eg to login, checkout things from within shell script? Something like #!/bin/sh cvs login -p mypassword cvs...
11150
Palle Girgensohn
girgen@...
Jan 7, 1999 2:39 am
... Hi! You are logged in until you explicitally log out from cvs. The password is saved, lightly scrambled, in a .cvspass file in your home directory. It's...
11151
Kay Schulz
kay@...
Jan 7, 1999 9:30 am
Hi our server runs on UNIX all clients on NT (most using winCVS) Did someone added the firewall patch to the source and recompiled the clients (on NT) for it? ...
11152
Kay Schulz
kay@...
Jan 7, 1999 9:44 am
Hi I try to compile cvs 1.10 on NT 4.0 SP 4 Visual Studio 6.0 SP 1 because I like the firewall patch to be integrated And it complains about the diff/version.c...
11153
Cameron, Steve
Steve.Cameron@...
Jan 7, 1999 3:50 pm
... [Cameron, Steve] Well, seeing as how logging in is only required once. (with pserver anyways) just login manually, then from then on out, you don't need to...
