[Bf-committers] cvs problems

Joseph models at paposo.com
Sun Nov 7 03:42:40 CET 2004


Nathan Letwory wrote:

>You can use a perl oneliner to quickly change all -d:pserver: instances to
>-d:ext:
>
>$ cd /path/to/blenderrootdir
>$ find . -type f -name "CVSROOT" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/pserver/ext/g'
>
>As a developer with write access you probably have already checked out
>sources using your username, so that is something you don't have to
>change. If you did checkout as anonymous after all, do the same oneliner
>with anonymous for pserver and your username for ext.
>
>When you get tired of writing your password all the time, you can use SSH
>authorised keys, see: http://www.blender3d.org/cms/CVS_SSH.383.0.html
>
>Write me at projects at blender.org if you have more problems/question.
>
>Regards,
>
>/Nathan
>
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>>Hi,
>>
>>We moved to ssh (secure shell) for access to cvs. This also means you
>>need to remove CVSROOT files in your code, or do a fresh checkout
>>logged in as user (not anonymous).
>>
>>Hints for how to remove CVSROOT I cannot quickly give (apart from in
>>unix console), dunno what kind of tool you have for cvs... but you can
>>easily get support on that via IRC. I'm also pretty sure Nathan has
>>more answers here!
>>
>>-Ton-
>>
>>
>>On 6 Nov, 2004, at 19:24, Alfredo de Greef wrote:
>>
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>>>For the past week I have been having all sorts of
>>>problems trying to commit my code. Last week I tried a
>>>commit but when updating the code, I got 'move away
>>>-filename-; it is in the way' for every file. This
>>>never happened before except for one directory once,
>>>removing the directory and updating again worked, but
>>>could not do that this time. I asked on irc about
>>>this, and intrr said there had been some problems with
>>>the server at that moment, so I just waited another
>>>day to try again, but then had no net access for the
>>>entire day. So I just continued updating the code
>>>instead. Then I had another two days of no net
>>>acccess, so still could not commit. Thursday the
>>>connection returned and I tried again, getting the
>>>same error when trying to update from cvs. Then tried
>>>to update from within the blender directory. This
>>>worked, but then when finally trying to commit after
>>>typing the log message, I got a 'requires write
>>>access' error or something like that. In the mailing
>>>list I read there was something about server problems
>>>('CVS offline ?' thread) so thinking this had
>>>something to do with it, I waited another day again.
>>>Yesterday tried updating again, but this time nothing
>>>happened at all, I waited an hour for the code
>>>updating to start, but then just gave up. Tried again
>>>just now, another half hour, still nothing...
>>>What is happening? Has anything changed that I'm not
>>>aware of? I have committed code twice before with the
>>>new system and had no problems at all.
>>>Of course, even after having it used a few times now,
>>>I still don't know much about cvs at all, so once
>>>again, it could be me doing something stupid.
>>>
>>>Alfredo
>>>
>>>
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Yes on win32 you can do a find/replace in all the ROOT files in each 
/cvs directory and replace :pserver: with :ext:.  This seems to work for 
wintortoise.


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