Paul, I think part of the problem here is the tendancy for some people (mostly programmers) to treat windows as unix (or put another way - to fail to obey windows rules on windows). Several examples
Hi Todd, I had done the way you asked me to do.I want to try the first method before I try the second.This is what I have done: Root on cvs_server edited /etc/group and added sadiacvsgroup:x:800:sadi
Sadia Tahseen wrote, On 03/11/2008 06:21 PM: Hi , You probably have leftovers from several attempts of getting setup at this point, some of which probably have permission/ownership problems. (probabl
Hi , YES EVEN " Did the `chmod g+rws JavaAppl/projectdir` work or give the same error?" GAVE THE SAME ERROR <todd said> then as sadia on a_workstation: export CVSROOT=:ext:cvs_server:/appl/src/cvs/Ja
Sadia Tahseen wrote, On 03/10/2008 05:42 PM: Hi , I am facing the problem booth on client and server side. Please look below for the errors I get. <SNIP> <todd said> If you are using NIS/LDAP then al
Please read the CVS manual: <http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.22/cvs.html> You may also want to read Karl Fogel's book, particularly the chapter on repository administration: <http://cvsbook.re
– Step-by-step guide of how to backup a CVS repository; – Step-by-step guide on how to prevent the deletion of – Best practices for merging branches into the
Bulgrien, Kevin wrote, On 01/18/2008 10:12 AM: Also considering the age of his copy of CVS It and older versions have served us well for many years. It is in use here because commercial packages in p
It and older versions have served us well for many years. It is in use here because commercial packages in past years trashed repositories. CVS has sustained no losses that were not human induced. T
Arthur Barrett wrote, On 01/17/2008 05:51 PM: Kevin, There was a separate off newsgroup discussion which I wont go into here. CVS-NT not on distribution, no auto-security updates for 5 years. As oppo
The users are listed in the repository in CVSROOT/passwd. CVSNT is not CVS for windows (CVSNT runs fine on unix and linux), it is CVS plus some additional features - one being cvs passwd (though that
The "attic" is where history is stored for files that have been deleted from the project. Sounds like someone is working on a branch off an old version of the source before those files were deleted.
Zakai Kinan wrote, On 08/14/2007 03:15 PM: My developers use eclipse + CVS and I am trying to understand the following: 1. when some files get checked in they go into /project/Web/pages/Attic on the
My developers use eclipse + CVS and I am trying to understand the following: 1. when some files get checked in they go into /project/Web/pages/Attic on the server. 2. while when they get checked out
I created 2 files for project A on main with versions 10.1 (through -r tag of commit). Then I checked out the project and added another new file to it. I tagged the branch with name 'x'. To tag I gav
But I have a requirement in which created versions should be of 10.1.2.1, 10.1.2.2 etc Also we know that cvs finds the highest numbered revision of any file in the directory, takes the first digit, a
Hi Sean! Thanks for the explanations. Guess using rsync would have saved me some time :) Oh well, I will know for next time. And we use extssh to connect so no problems there. I much prefer to use ex
disregarding issues of disk space and assuming you have admin/root access, you can clone your cvs repository for testing purposes by copying it into a new tree: rsync -aPv /path/to/cvsroot_real/ /pat
I'm not new to using cvs from Windoze using tortoise cvs, but I am new to administering it. I'm having a terrible time adding a new module to a new cvs. I've been following (faithfully, I think) the
Tim, As Todd wrote - you only NEED to branch when there will be a clear conflict over time (eg: release 1 maintenance versus release 2 development). Note: CVS only stores a single revision of the sou