... I'd thought along similar lines myself, and thought the names `cvshints' and `.cvshints' suited well. I imagined it's contents to be something like ignore...
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Greg A. Woods ...
May 1, 1996 5:46 pm
[ On Tue, April 30, 1996 at 18:16:21 (-0400), Jim Kingdon wrote: ] ... I didn't think this decision had been agreed on by the majority of info-cvs folk. I may...
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B.G. Mahesh ...
May 1, 1996 5:51 pm
I am writting a document which explains the process to be followed for version control. I use CVS. It doesn't have to be jazzy, is there some process doc...
1319
Greg A. Woods ...
May 1, 1996 6:11 pm
[ On Wed, May 1, 1996 at 11:38:48 (+0100), mhw@... wrote: ] ... I do like "cvshints" (or "cvs-hints"), and I like the idea of using ...
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Kirby Koster ...
May 1, 1996 6:55 pm
-*- As spoken by Greg A. Woods -*- ... I agree that this seems overkill. Why not just make "BASE", "HEAD" and other needed "key" tags reserved? Kirby ... ...
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Greg A. Woods ...
May 1, 1996 7:51 pm
[ On Wed, May 1, 1996 at 10:44:52 (-0400), Noel Yap wrote: ] ... #defines *will* work, provided you use them to choose the default location and/or names of...
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Noel Yap ...
May 1, 1996 8:15 pm
... X-Sun-Data-Type: text X-Sun-Data-Description: text X-Sun-Data-Name: text X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii X-Sun-Content-Lines: 108 ... We have multi-variant...
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ropella@...
May 1, 1996 8:18 pm
... [...] I know I'll have to disable this feature for my main use of CVS, as my local standards require that the vendor branch tag be the name of the module,...
1324
Michael Helm ...
May 1, 1996 8:26 pm
... I looked at the 87 snapshot. the dirname functions now seem to be "reposdirnam". Life is good....
1325
Peter Wolfe ...
May 1, 1996 10:39 pm
... Compiling on SCO/ODT 3.0 (aka SCO 3.2v4.2) has the following problems: 1. running configure results in the following noise: pw.baloo.17422> CC="cc -quiet"...
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Richard England ...
May 1, 1996 11:04 pm
... } } > * Tag names containing only uppercase letters (no lowercase letters, } > digits, or punctuation) are now reserved for CVS; it will not let you ...
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ropella@...
May 1, 1996 11:21 pm
} > * Tag names containing only uppercase letters (no lowercase letters, } > digits, or punctuation) are now reserved for CVS; it will not let you } >...
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Raymond Y. Lillard ...
May 1, 1996 11:26 pm
... I'm uncertain who makes the decisions about these things, but whoever you are, please don't waste so much of the legal character set to achieve this simple...
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Mike Ekberg ...
May 1, 1996 11:27 pm
There is no reason why you cannot read in these files at run time, and run them thru cpp, or some other processor. see popen(3S). In other words, you can build...
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Peter Wolfe ...
May 2, 1996 12:32 am
Sorry about the earlier (incomplete) message - my finger slipped :-) ... Compiling on SCO/ODT 3.0 (aka SCO 3.2v4.2) has the following problems: 1. running...
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Chris_Eich@....
May 2, 1996 12:41 am
1) Use some special sequence of one or more characters to prefix the reserved tagnames. Yes, please! The double-underscore of ANSI C comes to mind.... -- ...
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Maurice C. Ling ...
May 2, 1996 12:45 am
May I suggest using All caps with an initial underscore as reserved words for CVS. Something like _BASE or _HEAD? -Maurice...
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Greg A. Woods ...
May 2, 1996 1:14 am
[ On Wed, May 1, 1996 at 17:24:21 (-0400), Noel Yap wrote: ] ... So use something that you explicitly supply.... ... How do you know? Why do you want/need to...
1334
Mike Ladwig ...
May 2, 1996 1:15 am
For MacCVS (macintosh cvs) users out there, I have released a version of MacCVS 1.7 that offers an AppleEvents interface in addition to the SIOUX interface. I...
1335
norton@...
May 2, 1996 1:16 am
I've had problems getting tests to pass so far with 1.7.86. Was hoping that people on this list with similar OS's could report on successes or failures. I...
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Noel Yap ...
May 2, 1996 1:24 am
... I am only dealing with ONE file name with multiple variants. Again, the problem is that CVS does not handle file variants. My solution would allow this...
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Martin Portmann ...
May 2, 1996 1:41 am
I'm having problems with 1.7.87 on NextStep 3.3, rcs 5.7, diff 2.7, patch 2.1 ... Then I tried a little and noted that 1.7.87 is loosing the '-kb' flag on...
1338
Greg A. Woods ...
May 2, 1996 1:51 am
[ On Wed, May 1, 1996 at 17:17:54 (-0400), Noel Yap wrote: ] ... If you have file variants, put the variants in separate files, and voila, you have support...
1339
Noel Yap ...
May 2, 1996 1:58 am
... 0. I can't depend on cpp being on the machine at run time. 1. I don't want to have to checkout files that I know I won't need at run time. 2. I don't want...
1340
Noel Yap ...
May 2, 1996 2:09 am
... I comment on this below. ... Right, but he also does not say the VC tool should not support this useful functionality. I started using CVS so I wouldn't...
1341
Noel Yap ...
May 2, 1996 2:09 am
... You'll not be able to make any edits and then commit. It's not possible to have tag aliases for branches. The type of tag you've shown above helps in no...
1342
Steve Willer ...
May 2, 1996 2:19 am
... I just tried it, and it worked for me. cvs tag <tag> <file> cvs tag <tag2> <file> It got tagged both times. I tried 'cvs status -v <file>' to confirm, and ...
1343
Steven Jowers ...
May 2, 1996 2:50 am
... Another "me too." I'd have to make modifications as well. -sj -- Steven Jowers / MDC2-2271 | (713) 244-4573 |"I am not out of my mind,..., McDonnell...
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Philip Guenther ...
May 2, 1996 2:55 am
nyap@... (Noel Yap) writes: [Must you use that icky sun pseudo-MIME message format? Also, <75 columns is good.] ... I've now seen the word...
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Tom Schutter ...
May 2, 1996 3:24 am
OK. Here is my 0.02$: If you check out only the files that apply to the current platform, how do you make a common/consistent edit to the platform dependant...
