Re: four questions

[Todd Denniston]

EP1 wrote, On 04/02/2008 02:15 PM:
> Hi everyone!!!
> 1) How do I add watchers?  Is it that each person who checks out the file
> must themselves add a watch, or is there a way an administrator can
> designate a whole group of watchers for a file?

each person adds themselves.
if the admin understands the format of a couple of control files per directory 
in the repository, the admin could hand (vi/emacs) edit the files, I however 
advise against that.

> 2) How do I configure CVS so that the appropriate watchers are emailed (as
> the literature seems to imply)?

IIRC as long as mail/sendmail works correctly on your server[1] it takes care 
of itself.


[1] assuming you have a couple of cvs users named user1 and user2,
if you can login to the server and do
echo "a test message" > /tmp/mymail
`mail -s "testing mail" -c user2 user1 < /tmp/mymail`
and then get complaints from user1 & 2 about getting unsolicited test 
messages, then mail/sendmail is working.

> 3) How does one perform merges between branches using TkCVS?
> 4) For some reason, when I am using TkCVS on certain servers, all of the
> buttons for different options (checkout, branch/merge tools, etc) are "faded
> out".  What might I be doing wrong?

TkCVS???
a question and two sugestion:
Q: is that a windows product?
S1: if it is, you may want to ask on the cvsnt list:
http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
or
news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt

S2:find the list for TkCVS and ask on that list too, as this list is MOSTLY 
knowledgeable with command line CVS.

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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter