[Sandweb-users] Re: Sandweb repository issues

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

In SandWeb, click on the module name to get to the "browse module" menu.
You should see a pulldown select form that has a "commit" option on it.


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Rob


On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:31:46PM -0400, Alainna C. Wonders wrote:
> So how would one check in files after editing them? 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Helmer [mailto:ro...@ro...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:43 PM
> To: Alainna C. Wonders
> Cc: san...@li...
> Subject: Re: Sandweb repository issues
> 
> 
> 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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