• UsingCvs

CVS: Concurrent Versions System

See also: SubVersion

Documentation

CVS Primer

http://www-pat.fnal.gov/simulation/cvs_primer.html

CVS Book

http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#admin

CVSNT

CvsNtAdministration

My CVS Lesson

CvsLesson

Command Line Examples

# export CVSROOT=/cvsroot 
# export CVSROOT=:pserver:adam@cvs.spack.org:/cvsroot

And then ...

# cvs login 
# cvs checkout <module>

To import a new source code base into CVS for the firest time:

# cd /path/to/source/code 
# cvs import <module> vendor_1 release_1

Or to imort into a sub-module:

# cd /path/to/source/code 
cvs import /adam/module/foo/bar vendor_1 release_1

Using with SSH

To use CVS securely the best option is to SSH in and then invoke CVS through the shell. The configuration for this is a little different, here's how it works (note that you don't do a "cvs login" when using SSH in this way):

# export CVS_RSH=ssh 
# export CVSROOT=:ext:adam@cvs.spack.org:/cvsroot
# cvs co <module>

Client Software

• CVSWebEdit

• CVSWebClient

• ViewCVS
• CVSWeb ...

Useful Add-ons

• Bonsai
• ViewCVS

  • http://viewcvs.sf.net/

• CVSSearch

  • http://cvssearch.sourceforge.net/

• CVS2RSS - Convert you history file to an RSS feed.

  • http://laughingmeme.org/cvs2rss/

• CVSStats

  • http://statcvs.sourceforge.net/

• CVSMonitor - Very cool way of viewing CVS activity in a graphical manner (example).

  • http://ali.as/devel/cvsmonitor

Troubleshooting

• Q: I got this error after I moved a repository from /cvsroot/homeone to /cvsroot/hometwo: "cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/cvsroot/homeone): Permission denied".

  A: All the words ofwisdom that I could find didn't help. Eventually it turned out that the problem was that the user that owned the /cvsroot/hometwo directory had a home directory of /cvsroot/homeone. Updating the users home directory worked like a charm.

  Q: I'm getting errors about /tmp being full.

  A: The problem is most likely that /tmp on the server is filling up. You either need to symlink /tmp to somewhere with more space (/var/tmp maybe?) or you need to pass cvs the "-T /path/to/tmp" option on the command line. In Debian you do this in /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver.

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