Ted, Jon, and Peter,
Here is what you need to do to complete the Google Summer of Code project.
Go to this URL: http://code.google.com/grants/survey-m.html
It sounds like they'd like to get these all collected by the 5th.
Please let me know when you've filled it out (so we can make sure all the students get accounted for).
Thanks, Bryce
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:55:56PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Ted, Jon, and Peter,
Here is what you need to do to complete the Google Summer of Code project.
Go to this URL: http://code.google.com/grants/survey-m.html
It sounds like they'd like to get these all collected by the 5th.
Btw, I'll take care of providing them with my social security info, etc. so for question 4, you can list my name in the comments.
Bryce
I have been trying to checkout and then commit some changes to text rotation in dxf2svg, but I have been having problems with the CVS update function. It appears to update some files and then it dies on a file in /src/helper. Update was working Friday afternoon.
I have tried getting fresh files, but I keep getting the same problem. Is this me, TortoiseCVS, or a more general problem? I an copying transaction output below.
Matt
In C:\Documents and Settings\Matt\Desktop\inkscape-cvs\inkscape: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" "update" "-d" "-P" "." CVSROOT=:pserver:squires@...54...:/cvsroot/inkscape
? src/helper/_new_ ? src/svg/_new_ cvs update: .de.txt is no longer in the repository cvs update: .fr.txt is no longer in the repository cvs update: .it.txt is no longer in the repository cvs update: .txt is no longer in the repository U .de.txt U .fr.txt U .it.txt U .txt M src/Makefile.am cvs update: src/helper/ is no longer in the repository cvs.exe update: unable to remove src/helper/ : No such file or directory U src/helper/ cvs.exe [update aborted]: cannot rename file _new_ to : No such file or directory
Error, CVS operation failed
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:05:03AM -0600, Matt Squires wrote:
I have been trying to checkout and then commit some changes to text rotation in dxf2svg, but I have been having problems with the CVS update function. It appears to update some files and then it dies on a file in /src/helper. Update was working Friday afternoon.
I have tried getting fresh files, but I keep getting the same problem. Is this me, TortoiseCVS, or a more general problem? I an copying transaction output below.
Matt
In C:\Documents and Settings\Matt\Desktop\inkscape-cvs\inkscape: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" "update" "-d" "-P" "." CVSROOT=:pserver:squires@...54...:/cvsroot/inkscape
? src/helper/_new_ ? src/svg/_new_ cvs update: .de.txt is no longer in the repository cvs update: .fr.txt is no longer in the repository cvs update: .it.txt is no longer in the repository cvs update: .txt is no longer in the repository U .de.txt U .fr.txt U .it.txt U .txt M src/Makefile.am cvs update: src/helper/ is no longer in the repository cvs.exe update: unable to remove src/helper/ : No such file or directory U src/helper/ cvs.exe [update aborted]: cannot rename file _new_ to : No such file or directory
Hmm, sounds like CVS is really mussed up. I haven't seen this particular error situation, but can give some generic CVS troubleshooting advice that might get you on the right path.
Before you do anything, I would suggest making a copy of your CVS tree, just in case. `cp -r inkscape inkscape-borked`
Okay, first of all it's saying that src/helper is not in the repository, yet it looks to me that it *is* in the repository, so CVS is really confused on that count. Look in your local copy to see if you have a src/helper/CVS/ directory; if not, then that could be a clue.
Next, those _new_ items shown look suspicious. Those are probably TortiseCVS specific things. Look what's in them.
Take a look in src/helper/CVS/Entries. That file lists what your local CVS checkout thinks is true. Sometimes when CVS gets really brain dead, you can manually correct that file. This is sometimes a pain in the ass, so leave it as a last resort. But it might be informative to see what's in there. My guess is that there's probably a few lines with _new_ there, which if you deleted would make cvs update properly (but you may lose whatever's in _new_).
As a last, last resort, I would create a new CVS checkout, and re-attempt to merge your changes into that branch, committing each change in a smaller, more 'atomic' sequence. For example, if you need to create new subdirs, do that first and make sure cvs adds CVS/ dirs inside them, then add a few files and commit them, and make sure those get in correctly, etc.
(Fwiw, it's been my experience that the CVS front ends often have little issues like these; cvs is difficult to interface to, since there's really no API. This is why I use the stock commandline cvs program for everything. It's also one of the several reasons that are motivating us to look at something better than CVS for version control.)
Bryce
On Sep 4, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hmm, sounds like CVS is really mussed up. I haven't seen this particular error situation, but can give some generic CVS troubleshooting advice that might get you on the right path.
One additional possibility is some Win32-specific problem, like file case.
I'd fall back to something like TkCVS to check also. For larger operations on Win32 I'd often need to fall back to that, leaving TortoiseCVS for the file-at-a-time stuff.
TkCVS' page recommends UnixUtils as one way to get the needed diff.
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
I think tortoise might have a cvs.exe that TkCVS can use
CVSNT is another option to look at.
In case it may be useful for some sort of a review, I have tested Michael's connector tool and discussed it with him. The tool has some problems but Michael has good understanding of them and is willing to work on them. Even in the current state the tool is already useful, and when it has everything that we spoke about, it will be super cool.
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