[cvsnt] Re: rcsdiff -q

Mon Oct 18 17:17:40 BST 2004

"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried at heintze.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.2162.1098114448.21094.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
>
> I'm running CVSNT and emacs. I want to put my c:\.emacs in a repository.
See
> "More details" below if your interested in history. When I try Matt's
> command c-u c-x v v rcs it never gets to prompt me for the "rcs". Instead
I
> get a dialog box that says "Something bad happened to CVSNT. Do you want a
> crash dump". I say no and then I get a dialog box about an accvio.

I had a similar problem.  My solution was to rename cvsnt/rcsdiff and
cvsnt/co, since the behavior of the programs is different from the
identically-named programs in the rcs distribution.

> I have discovered, however, that I can use the command line commands for
rcs
> "co" and "ci" to keep track of my revisions for .emacs.

Yes, that should work.  But only if rcs/co is first in your path (or you've
renamed cvsnt/co, as above).

> It would be nicer to be able to check in and check out from emacs using
RCS.
> It would be even nicer to use CVSNT on my c:\.emacs.

This works for me.  You just have to register the file first:

C-u C-x v v

> Oh, and incidently, when I try c-x v b, I get the message "no other back
end
> to switch to". That is strange! RCS is obviously installed and working.

You must register the file with RCS first.  See the command above.

> When I tried to create a repository in my top level directory cvs.exe
failed
> with some horrible error message. I had posted that error message earlier
in
> this mailing list and received no response. Previous to that (as per the
> suggestion on this mailing list) I posted a query in the emacs forum on
how
> to put the .emacs under version control. No luck. I had even tried to use
> Cygwin (I'm running windows 2003 server) "ln" command to create a link but
> had no luck (I posted in the Cygwin mailing list but no luck there
either).

I was able to put .emacs under RCS version control without a problem.

Just make sure that vc is finding the right binaries.  I have cvsnt in my
path first, then rcs.  This causes a conflict, since cvsnt/rcsdiff and
cvsnt/co behave differently, so I renamed them (no problem since vc doesn't
use them anyway, when CVS is the backend).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
Of
> Matthew Heaney
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:39 AM
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> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: rcsdiff -q
>
>
> "Torsten Martinsen" <torsten at tiscali.dk> wrote in message
> news:mailman.2047.1097679461.21094.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
> > Matthew Heaney wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand why you say that Emacs wants it. Standard out-of-the
> > box Emacs will automatically use CVS as the backend when there is a CVS
> > directory, and this works fine. Why is it that you want to switch
> > backend to RCS?
>
> Yes, but I'm only using CVS for remote updates.  (See
> http://charles.tigris.org/.)
>
> I am frequently away from a network (either in a car, or on a plane, or in
a
> airport, etc), and I need a way to keep track of local changes to source
> until I can get back on a network.
>
> Emacs vc mode allows you to change backends, so you can use RCS while
you're
> off network.  When you get back on network, then you switch back to CVS,
and
> check in your local changes.
>
> See the vc commands:
>
> C-u C-x v v rcs
>
> and
>
> C-x v b
>
> Perhaps it is possible to use CVSNT for keep track of local changes, too,
> but I have never used CVS this way.  (The CVSNT service isn't even
> installed, so I don't know whether a "local CVS" backend would even be
> possible for me.)
>
>
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