For those interested, I've just submitted all my patches (so far) to the SourceForge RCVS project. These patches include: Bug fixes: 1. so "cvs edit" records...
Noel L Yap
yap_noel@...
May 1, 2000 7:32 pm
21867
I want to make one of my web site repositories accessible to a small group of editors and contributors. Such editors contributors are not CVS sophisticates,...
I'll be working on the RCVS stuff more later this week, due to some bad timing the following Monday after I created RCVS on sourceforge, the startup I was...
Sean Cavanaugh
sean@...
May 1, 2000 11:02 pm
21870
Hi, I am trying to find out how to extract the branch tag info from CVS check-in messages. I'd like to be able to parse this data, and take certain actions if...
Douglas Finkle
dfinkle@...
May 2, 2000 12:51 am
21871
... I find that I still need to pass the -f option to cvs in inetd.conf--even when running env as larry.jones suggests. --Will...
W. L. Estes
wlestes@...
May 2, 2000 12:51 am
21872
... Yes you certainly do, and my abject apologies for omitting it from my example. The corrected inetd.conf line is: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root...
Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 2, 2000 12:51 am
21873
I think is interesting to know the year of the history entries. Important when you mantein the repository for more than a year and want to display the...
Jordi Castells Moreno
jorcas@...
May 2, 2000 12:51 am
21874
This patch adds the year to the history command. When a user does cvs history <blah> it only prints out month/day. Modified the code to print out...
Donald Sharp
sharpd@...
May 2, 2000 12:51 am
21875
... The simplest solution is to change the line in inetd.conf to something like: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/env env - /usr/local/bin/cvs...
Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 2, 2000 12:52 am
21876
... /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs -t --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver ... I mean without the -t or -bt...of course I have --allow-root. This is on Solaris...
Anya Sophe Behn
anya@...
May 2, 2000 12:57 am
21877
... -Larry Jones I just can't identify with that kind of work ethic. -- Calvin...
Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 2, 2000 1:07 am
21878
... I strongly suggest updating to the latest interim release (1.10.8) from www.cyclic.com. ... What do you mean by "hangs"? Did you get the usual "Trying...
Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 2, 2000 1:08 am
21879
On Saturday, April 29, 2000 12:26 PM, Anya Sophe Behn ... /usr/local/bin/cvs ... What do you mean by 'no options'? You should always have the --allow-root ...
Chris Cameron
chris.cameron@...
May 2, 2000 1:13 am
21880
... Why not make it year/month/day for consistancy's sake? --Toby....
Tobias Weingartner
weingart@...
May 2, 2000 1:43 am
21881
Hello all, I'm trying to install CVS for the first time on Debian 2.1. I'm having all kinds of trouble getting the permissions set correct on the repository. ...
Chris Carbaugh
cjtech2000@...
May 2, 2000 4:55 am
21882
Hi all, We are trying to use wrappers in CVS. For example one of the lines in the cvswrappers file looks like: *.nib -f '$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/unwrap * -t...
Valerianus Oey
valerianus.oey@...
May 2, 2000 12:27 pm
21883
I was just following the standard that we follow here in the us ;( which is month/day/year. for the patch. I then followed the format for the ChangeLog(...
Donald Sharp
sharpd@...
May 2, 2000 2:01 pm
21884
... That's a reasonable ownership, but the permissions should be 777 (or 1777 if Linux supports the sticky bit on directories); it sounds like you have them...
Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 2, 2000 3:53 pm
21885
... There are serious problems with the -t/-f wrapper code that can cause data loss, so they were disabled a long time ago (in CVS 1.9.28) until someone could...
Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 2, 2000 3:53 pm
21886
Why not use locale to format the date, that way everyone can be happy. I would rake a look at LC_TIME to determine how to print the date. On Solaris, take a...
Glen Wiley
glen_wiley@...
May 2, 2000 4:00 pm
21887
I've been using cvs-1.10.6. For some reason, the time stamp on the files in the repository are off, usually some time in the future. I'm using WinCVS as well...
Jiann-Ming Su
js1@...
May 2, 2000 4:41 pm
21888
Does it work for pre-2000 dates? I noticed after the y2k rollover that CVS dates had year <= 99 and then year >= 2000 which seemed kinda strange. I haven't...
Derek Scherger
derek@...
May 2, 2000 4:43 pm
21889
... Because the contents of the LC_TIME locale aren't specified in standard C and a varying format would make it difficult to mechanically parse the output...
Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 2, 2000 5:08 pm
21890
... There's nothing to fix -- the RCS file format explicitly requires that peculiar date format: Dates, which appear after the date keyword, are of the ...
Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 2, 2000 5:15 pm
21891
Hi, I am wondering if there is any trick to get this command to work using pserver on cvs (I have setup CVSROOT var, and after I login): cd workdir cvs co -d ....
Walter M. Yuan
miao@...
May 2, 2000 6:18 pm
21892
Cool! The user-customizable context menus (right click) are a great enhancement! Thanks! David...
David L. Martin
dlmart@...
May 2, 2000 6:29 pm
21893
I've noticed that xmalloc does not zero out the memory that's just been allocated. This doesn't jive well when adding new fields to existing structures ...
Noel L Yap
yap_noel@...
May 2, 2000 7:14 pm
21894
here's a useful but possibly controversial patch. it allows one to say cvs -m "foo" -u user-to-commit-as srcdir/ and have the ,v files show the...
joel reed
jreed@...
May 2, 2000 7:29 pm
21895
... If the code's correctly written, it's a waste of time. If the code isn't correctly written, it may well hide that fact and delay the code's getting fixed....