AW: [cvsnt] cvsnt on pc against a cvs remote repository on solarisusing pserver

[Christian Kasper]

Hello,

I have an mixed *soft (win2000) and *nix shell - environment. The win -
programmers only use a gui, the solaris programmers only use shell, vi
..... 

I think the best solution is to share a solaris sandbox with a WinCVS
Client (or tcvs).

One problem with sharing a sandbox via samba is the filetime problem
(thank you richard), the another 'problem' is to check the <cr><lf>(dos)
and <lf>(*nix) behavior, well described in the tcvs - faq
http://www.tortoisecvs.org/faq.shtml#sharelinux

Bo berlund told me 

>This is an UNSUPPORTED and DISCOURAGED configuration that will not
result >in any help whatsoever from the developers or most other people
on the >list!

Ok, he's rigth, im working with cvsnt on the client pc, with cvs pserver
on the *nix machine, it's a mixed environment for my  testing. 

But when i use cvsnt on both (pc and solaris) sides, connection from
WinCVS to the repository on solaris via pserver, i think, the filetime
and <cr><lf> behavior are the only 'problems'. 

Best regards, christian





-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Richard Wirth [mailto:r.wirth at wirthware.de] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 06:29
An: Christian Kasper
Betreff: Re: [cvsnt] cvsnt on pc against a cvs remote repository on
solarisusing pserver


Hello Christian,

Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 2:06:28 PM, you wrote:

CK> hallo,

CK> i am sorry, i am desribing my environment not correctly.

CK> i am working in a sandbox on a solaris machine, using cvs 1.11.13.

CK> i want to use this sandox with WinCVS via a network drive(like R:\).

So why do you want to use WinCVS? Is WinCVS the only tool you want to
use on the sandbox?
If this is the case try gCvs, a Gtk based frontend which shares most
of its source code with WinCVS. Unfortunatly not all the famous
features of WinCVS are implemented at the moment...

---- shnipp ---

CK> ok, i check these files local in the sandbox on solaris server, the
cvs status
CK> command tells me *Up-to-date*.

CK> when i use the  diff command local and with WinCVS, no differences
appear.

This is because the filetimes of your samba (?) share do not match the
time of checkout in CVS/Entries. May be the time zone information for
both boxes do not match, or even there is a small difference like you
may often see for windows shares. The problem is not solvable by
WinCVS.

-- 
Best regards,
 Richard                            mailto:r.wirth at wirthware.de