[Sandweb-users] Re: Sandweb repository issues

[Robert H. <ro...@ro...>]

Hi Alainna,


No worries. I prefer if people mail the sandweb-users list so that
problems/resolutions can be shared.

Maybe I am confused about what you are saying, but I think you
are not clear on how CVS works.. (see http://cvshome.org)

In CVS, each user makes a private checkout (aka "sandbox") and modifies
their work in there. When they are done, they attempt to check in
to the main repository ("/cvs_root").

If someone else has checked in to the same file before them, they
get a notification and CVS attempts to merge the changes. If the
merge fails, the user gets a conflict notification and merges
the changes themselves, then attempts to check in again.

Noone should ever be modifying anything in /cvs_root directly; you
need to go through CVS.



Hope that helps,
Rob Helmer



On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:22:39PM -0400, Alainna C. Wonders wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> I got your email address off of your website; I hope you don't mind.
> 
> We're having some serious difficulties with the repository.  It seems
> that when we configure the repository section in Sandweb as such below: 
> 
> Name: CVSROOT
> Server hostname: localhost
> Username: awonders
> Vcs type: cvs 
> Connection: local
> Root: /cvs_root/
> 
> It will create /usr/local/share/sandweb/users/username/cvs_root/$files.
> 
> We need sandweb to point EVERYone to /cvs_root so they can share their
> development files.
> 
> I tried to symlink (probably a major no-no) all of the user directories
> to /cvs_root/ and gave it all the permissions of apache:cvsusers, and
> got a little further but no where near where we need to be.  
> 
> I'm hoping that I'm just screwing up and not doing it right.  Any help
> you can offer, I'd really appreciate.
> 
> Thanks Robert. 
> 
> 
> Alainna C. Wonders
> Jr. Systems Administrator, ISSO
> Applied Hydro-Acoustic Research, Inc.
> Voice: 703-968-6129 
> Email: awo...@ah...
> 
> 
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