Just my thoughts. ... If multiple people are running though this procedure at the same time, you can get some nasty conflicts at this stage (your files are...
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Cameron, Steve
Steve.Cameron@...
May 3, 2000 10:23 pm
[smc] David Thornley wrote: [...] ... [smc] IBM (and some others) like to use the value 0xDEADBEEF for this purpose. (and you probably thought IBM had no...
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Donald Sharp
sharpd@...
May 3, 2000 10:00 pm
You have two choices: a) You need to export the filesystem that the CVSROOT is on, then mount that filesystem on the different machine. Setting CVSROOT ...
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Erik Kluzek
erik@...
May 3, 2000 9:58 pm
Is there any interest in CVS having a "checkoutinfo" administration file? This would be similar to "commitinfo" as it would run a script before files are...
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Paul Sander
paul@...
May 3, 2000 9:54 pm
... An "isValid" field isn't valid if the structure isn't initialized properly. When this is a concern, the value of the pointer itself becomes significant ...
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Greg A. Woods
woods@...
May 3, 2000 9:19 pm
[ On Wednesday, May 3, 2000 at 11:46:27 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ] ... Indeed. I've been maintaining another rather sizable and extremely security...
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rajkumar samuel
rvsamuel@...
May 3, 2000 8:18 pm
Hi, I've installed CVS for windows and the client WINCVS.In the same machine,if i have the CVSROOT defined as ... My understanding is that both my client and...
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Bob Whiteside
raw@...
May 3, 2000 8:14 pm
Hi All, Well, I solved this, and in case anyone else is interested, here's what I did. This is certainly inappropriate, but as I don't really know my way ...
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Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 3, 2000 7:50 pm
... In general, you can't. Sorry. -Larry Jones I don't see why some people even HAVE cars. -- Calvin...
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Donald Sharp
sharpd@...
May 3, 2000 5:54 pm
Yep, I saw your changes to the sanity.sh. I was trying to fathom them out( not being a shell programmer ;( ). Thanks! donald...
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Erik Kluzek
erik@...
May 3, 2000 5:33 pm
Hi For our local repository I've got scripts that run from commitinfo and taginfo. They check to ensure user is authorized, tag-name is appropriate and help...
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Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 3, 2000 5:20 pm
... I prefer the cybernetic eyes of Purify and similar tools -- I run a Purified version of CVS through the test suite every now and then and there are...
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Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 3, 2000 4:57 pm
... By taking a deep breath, relaxing, and ignoring all of the complicated set-up code at the beginning of sanity.sh. Once you get to the actual tests (look...
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Larry Jones
larry.jones@...
May 3, 2000 4:57 pm
... No. It's not worth my time to apply a patch. -Larry Jones I've got an idea for a sit-com called "Father Knows Zilch." -- Calvin...
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Matthias Kranz
mskranz@...
May 3, 2000 4:49 pm
There is no particular FAQ for this ML, but a general one for CVS. You will find it and much more useful information at ...
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David Thornley
David.Thornley@...
May 3, 2000 4:08 pm
... Ideally, I'd rather not have problems. Since that isn't possible, I'd like them to show up definitely and emphatically. I don't like solutions that patch...
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Dave Sherohman
dave@...
May 3, 2000 3:58 pm
... Not an actual .cvsignore, but... Ignore: *.~* *.obj *.dcu *.exe *.dll *.lib *.bpl *.bpi *.bpk *.bcp *.dsk Binary: *.res *.ico *.dfm (may be text in recent...
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Horia Ioanid
hioanid@...
May 3, 2000 3:37 pm
Thanks -- Horia Ioanid Niksun, Inc...
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Noel L Yap
yap_noel@...
May 3, 2000 3:26 pm
jonathan.gilligan@... on 05/03/2000 03:08:30 AM ... Hopefully, many eyes will tend to spot wild-pointer errors. ... I think the term portability...
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Noel L Yap
yap_noel@...
May 3, 2000 3:18 pm
paul@... on 05/03/2000 12:44:09 AM ... I don't understand why anyone would ever request a zero-byte allocation for a struct nor how they'd be able to...
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Noel L Yap
yap_noel@...
May 3, 2000 3:18 pm
Read about LockDir within CVSROOT/config. Noel fredrik.liljegren@... on 05/03/2000 06:29:36 AM To: info-cvs@... cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) ...
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Noel L Yap
yap_noel@...
May 3, 2000 3:18 pm
paul@... on 05/03/2000 12:16:28 AM ... This is the perfect solution. Unfortunately, such functions don't already exist for CVS structures. IMHO,...
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Noel L Yap
yap_noel@...
May 3, 2000 2:43 pm
derek@... on 05/02/2000 06:58:16 PM ... I think the question boils down to what are the priorities CVS is aiming for. Either reliability takes a back...
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Karl Fogel
kfogel@...
May 3, 2000 2:32 pm
... A group of volunteer developers, of whom Larry Jones has been by far the most active recently. ... Some of them are being applied, some aren't. Depends on...
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JR
jrivers77@...
May 3, 2000 2:17 pm
You can use "LockDir" in the CVSROOT/config file to specify a directory for lock files to be written to, and give him write access to that directory rather...
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Fredrik Liljegren
fredrik.liljegren@...
May 3, 2000 1:57 pm
... Yes, I can set commitinfo so that he can't commit anything to the repository, but for him to be able to checkout I have to give him write-permissions in...
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Andy Baker
Andy.Baker@...
May 3, 2000 1:19 pm
You could try getting commitinfo to call a quick script to check on who's committing stuff into the repos... Andy ... From: Fredrik Liljegren...
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Fredrik Liljegren
fredrik.liljegren@...
May 3, 2000 11:42 am
How do I manage to give a certain user a read-only access only for the cvs-repository? When I set up the file-permissions to only grant him read (and x for...
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W., Pröpper
wproepper@...
May 3, 2000 10:22 am
Hi collegues, following line in the administrative file loginfo doesn't work: the log message isn't appended on the the file revision.txt. Do this depend on ...
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Matthias Kranz
mskranz@...
May 3, 2000 9:57 am
... This was an often used method to remedy y2k problems, since it preserves compatibility with older software versions, but also offers safety for the future....
