My company currently uses CVS as our defacto standard for source control. I've heard many people say SVN is better, and I know that it's newer, but other than that am not sure of the benefits. I should note we use primarily java and eclipse if that matters. I guess what I'm looking for is a good, succinct comparison of the 2 noting ad...
Something like Google Code or SourceForge, but for closed source projects and better access management. Found links to these 3 on a forum: https://opensvn.csie.org/ SVN https://www.freepository.com/ CVS http://devjavu.com/ - SVN Anyone had any experience with them?...
So I know I need to implement version control, even for just the developing I do at home. My issue is I have read about how great Subversion is for the past couple years. I was about to dedicate myself to learning this on the side. But now I am starting to read about Git being the up and coming version control system. So should I hol...
We have a php project that we would like to version control. Right now there are three of us working on a "Dev" version of the project that all have our Eclipse linked to it with just an external folder, and thus no version control. What is the right way, and what is the best way, to version control this (not necessarily the same I dont...
I've played with CVS a little bit and am not the most familiar with all of its capabilities, but a huge annoyance for me is trying to add new directories that contain more directories in them. Running "cvs add" only adds the contents of the current directory, and using "cvs import" didn't look like the right thing either since it's still...
Let's say you have a typical web app and with a file configuration.whatever. Every developer working on the project will have one version for their dev boxes, there will be a dev, prod and stage versions. How do you deal with this in source control? Not check in this file at all, check it with different names or do something fancy altoge...
I am converting from existing CVS repository to SVN repository. CVS repository has few brances and I'd like to rename branches while converting. Wanted conversion is like this: CVS branch SVN branch HEAD -> branches/branchX branchA -> trunk branchB -> branches/branchB branchC -> branches/branc...
I've found SVN to be extremely useful for documentation, personal files, among other non-source code uses. What other practical uses have you found to version control systems in general? ...
Let's take a web development environment, where developers checkout a project onto their local machines, work on it, and check in changes to development. These changes are further tested on development and moved live on a regular schedule (eg weekly, monthly, etc.). Is it possible to have an auto-moveup of the latest tagged version (and ...
I've just setup a new project on SourceForge and the admins set it up with CVS as the SCM, however, I want to use SVN. There is NO code in this project yet - empty directory. How do I change this project from using CVS to SVN? ...
Here is the scenario that I have. I have a cvs repository in one location (A) and I want to replicate it and keep it in sync with a repository in another location(B). This would be a single directional sync from A to B. What is the best way to do this? If it is not really feasible in CVS then which source code control system would you re...
The cvsnt manual provides a detailed list of parameters than can be passed to the postcommand module, but none of them specify the file name. Is anybody aware of an option not listed here that would provide the name of the file being checked in? ColinYounger - The %c command is just the command, e.g. "Commit" ...
I have recently started having problems with TortoiseCVS, or more specifically with plink, the SSH application that comes with it. The IP address it tries to connect to can not be changed and is stuck with the old CVS repository's IP. Downloading plink from it's home site and calling from the command line still has this problem. Tortois...
I've always wanted to be able to get a reasonably elegant way of getting vimdiff to work with a CVS controlled file. I've found numerous (somewhat hacky) scripts around the internet (best example here) that basically check out the file you are editing from CVS to a temp file, and vimdiff the two. None of these take into account branches,...
There is a legacy CVS repository, which contains a large number of directories, sub-directories, and paths. There is also a large number of branches and tags that do not necessarilly cover all paths & files - usually a subset. How can I find out, which branch / tag covers, which files and paths? CVS log already provides the list of tags...
Things like $log$ and $version$ which add data upon check-in to the file. I'm interested in seeing the other ones and what information they can provide, but I can't get much info unless I know what they are called. Thanks. ...
My company using VSS and Visual Studio 2005 (soon 2008). They want to switch to CVS but the developers don't want to loose the integration we get with VSS and Visual Studio. I know there are CVS plug ins but what functional, if any, is lost with CVS? ...
How do I get the history of commits that have been made to the repository for a particular user? I am able to access CVS either through the command line or TortioseCVS, so a solution using either method is sufficient. ...
When trying to commit to a cvs branch after adding a new file I get this error Assertion failed: key != NULL, file hash.c, line 317 Any idea how to fix it so I can check my code in? both server and client are Linux there are pre-commits involved ...
It finally started to annoy me enough to ask this question: how do I do a basic diff between two revisions of a file in CVS? Usually I want to compare the latest revision and some random old one. I'm using the Eclipse CVS plugin. When I use "compare with->Another branch or version..." from the selected file's (latest revision from HEAD o...