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How to fix issue when committing a change to CVS

I'm trying to commit my changes to CVS repository, but I get the following error: RCS file: /opt/CZarmen/CVS_…

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CVS Error: failed to create lock directory... Permission denied

I'm using using TortoiseCVS to access the CVS server. I get the following error: In D:\source\foo: "C:\Program …

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Default port number of CVS

Can anybody help me with the default port number used for CVS repository. regards, PK

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How do we verify commit messages for a push?

Coming from CVS, we have a policy that commit messages should be tagged with a bug number (simple suffix "... [9999]"). A …

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Why is deleting a branch in CVS not recommended?

Under what circumstances would this or would this not be safe? I have a branch that has a four changes (…

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How to view recent CVS project changes in Eclipse?

Is there a way in Eclipse to view all recent changes of a project? Like in SVN, you can just …

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What is CVS "pserver" mode?

Could someone tell me exactly what the "pserver" mode is, in regards to CVS? The term "pserver" is used frequently, …

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Convert git repository file encoding

I have a large CVS repository containing files in ISO-8859-1 and want to convert this to git. Sure I …

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How to search cvs comment history

I am aware of this command: cvs log -N -w<userid> -d"1 day ago" Unfortunately this generates a …

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How do I revert a big change in CVS?

One of my colleagues has totally messed up the contents of a directory in our main CVS repository. I need …

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