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Origin of `import-1.1.1` branch generated by `cvs-fast-export`
I'm trying to migrate cleanly to git the CVS repository for osdsh at sourceforge. It has only 54 CVS commits that get turned into a dozen git commits, so nothing too complicated I guess. I'm ...
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CVS change revision of file to a newer one
simple question. I got a file xy.c that has a repository revision 1.1. Its on a branch. In head there is a newer version with version 1.4 . Now i want the file xy.c point to version 1.4.
I already ...
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How to switch to an old revision of the entire project?
For what I know, CVS is not like git and svn that you can switch back to an older version of an entire repo code.
The best I tried is I checkout a date (some days ago), using Eclipse. But it checked ...
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In CVS how to ignore a file which is already checked in
In our CVS (not git!) repo I have a file which I checked in a while ago. Now we have decided not to keep it in version control.
How can I keep the file in my local directory but tell CVS not to store ...
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Stop Tracking CVS Files Locally?
I accidentally checked out a bunch of files in an undesired CVS directory, causing me to run out of disc space. How do I undo the action safely? Theoretically, I’d think running (Unix) rm -r on the ...
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Rancid/VieWVC - cvs - keep only latest revisios/ remove older versions
I'm using Rancid with ViewVC as "front end" for reviewing config files of network devices
I would want to keep only latest revision number for all devices, and to remove old ones
cvs -d /usr/local/...
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Tracking changes SVN vs Git
Whilst watching a tutorial on Lynda.com regarding Distributed Version Control Systems vs Centralized Version Control Systems, I came across some text which confused me on how Git tracks differently ...
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EM dash ("–") gets replaced by character — upon update in WinCvs
In WinCvs, when I take update of a file (in my case its .sql file) the EM Dash (–) gets replaced by character —. How can I get rid of this?
I am using WinCvs version - 2.1.1.1(Build 1)
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Ignoring blame result since provider returned 120 blame lines but file something.java has 226 lines for CVS Sonar
I want the blame information of all the authors who committed the code on CVS through SONAR as I'm writing a java code for getting the issues according to author name. I have installed the sonar-scm-...
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pass password to CVS login from command line argument
my requirement is to pass password via command line argument for CVS login.
I have created a shell script file: test.sh have code like:
#for cvs login and putting password
cvs -q -d :pserver:...
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Can I get a history of all Powerbuilder objects?
I am currently using PowerBuilder 12.0 (not my choice) and a bug seems to have crept in around a certain date. I know that you can take a single PowerBuilder item - say, a datawindow, window or menu - ...
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Versioning system with per file history vs. commit history
I'm looking for a versioning system, that can show the version history with comments per file.
I've used SVN (not CVS as stated earlier) for a while and have some projects in git.
Both (svn and git) ...
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Is there a way in RCS or SCCS, etc to 're-origin' the changes?
I currently use SCCS for source control, but this question applies to version control systems in general.
In order to determine when a piece of code originated, I sometimes open up SCCS s. files to ...
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How can I revert a whole project to an earlier tag in CVS?
I have a poject that has thousands of files. I made some changes that affected almost half of the files. the changes included editing existing files and adding new files and directories.
I need to ...
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Error while adding CVS repository(extssh) in ReviewBoard
I installed ReviewBoard in my local and trying to connect to remote CVS repository. While I am trying to add CVS repository in ReviewBoard, I'm seeing below error. Please help.
The executable "cvs" ...
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