cvs

Can IDEA connect to a CVS repo over extssh?

Looks like IDEA is not supporting the extssh protocol for connecting to CVS by default. Is there a workaround available for accessing CVS through extssh? Thanks in advance. ...

Two CVS projects into one SVN project

I have two CVS projects, which I maintain in Eclipse. I check out first project, and for second project I use "checkout in existing project" option, so I'm able to maintain two CVS projects into one Eclipse project. Doing this I'm able to Tag both projects with the same tag,etc. And know, time has come to start using SVN. I was able to ...

Getting Revisions from CVS repository

Hi, I am trying to get somehow all the revision log that were made to a particular file, but I seem to stupid to do that :( To checkout a module I do the following CVSROOT="/home/projects/stuff/" cvs co myworkingdir within myworkingdir I have a testfile called paper.tex and from this I wanna try to get the revisions but I tried the ...

shell script fun! how to perform an action on each subdirectory from a given path??

I am writing a shell script (which I suck at) and I need some help. Its a script that is moving things from git to CVS (not important). The thing is, i a file path: controllers/listbuilder/setup/SubmissionRolesListbuilderHandler.inc.php and I need to be able to do: cvs add controllers; cvs add controllers/listbuilder; cvs add cont...

Committing to a different branch with commit -r

Does CVS allow committing a file to a different branch than the one it was checked out from? The man page and some sites suggest that we can do a cvs ci -r branch-1 file.c but it gives the following error: cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `file.c' cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first! I did a cvs diff -r branch...

CVS to Mercurial conversion: end of line problem

I recently converted a CVS repository to Mercurial. From the looks of it, everything went perfect. Except that every end-of-line character is in Unix style and I want them in Windows style. I know the hg convert command can be used to "convert" a Mercurial repository to a Mercurial repository. Can I use it to do nothing on the repos but...

Multiple Concurrent Changes Using SVN, GIT, and CVS

At work, we are using SVN, CVS, and GIT because there any many projects that were started at various times. Anyway, a common sequence that occurs is as follows: Working on task A, making changes to project Has new task B, some bug or functionality needs to be done on project, independent of task A but may affect same set of files Check...

I work on local copies of files and upload them to a remote server on save. What version control system can I use?

Here's my situation: My files are on a remote server (Linux). When I want to edit a file at home on my Windows machine, my editor (PSPad) downloads a copy. When I save the document, my editor uploads it to the server, overwriting the previous version. Edit: Just to be clear, I don't have a local copy of my complete project — I just h...

Handling hundreds of dependencies with ant

Hi guys, I have to refactor an ant xml file. Basicly I have one big task that checkouts (using cvs) a lot of dependencies, build them, and then copy all the jar/wsdl generated by building them to a directory that I specify. If one dependency version changes, I have to change the name in at least 3 places on the xml file (cvs checkout, b...

How to track CVS Check-Ins

We recently created a branch out of the main branch of our code for the beta. Now I want to check what all files have changed in the branch in the last one week. How to get that information out of CVS. What is the command for this ? ...

How to see the whole change list in CVS for a revision ?

Is it possible in Eclipse CVS plugin or even with commandline to get the list of all files checkedin in a revision ? ...

No such directory when committing files using CVS from Eclipse

Hi all I am using Eclipse solely as a CVS client. Mostly it works very good, but once in a while, when I am right-clicking a file to commit it (a file that it itself says is changed and ready for commit), it tells me "cvs [server aborted]: no such directory `...' But the directory DOES exist?! If I navigate to the folder using tortoise...

SVN problems after migration with CVS2SVN

We´ve migrated from CVS on AIX to SVN on Linux via CVS2SVN. The migration seems to have went well but when working in SVN we get a lot of Tree Conflicts that doesn´t seem to be conflicts at all? Looking at the revision graphs, one can see that the graph for e.g. trunk and a branch isn´t the same, i.e. they contain different sets of revi...

Is it possible to find all commits made by a user under a project in cvs

Hi everyone is there any command or utility to find all the commits made by a user in a project in cvs ? ...

use hooks in git to import and export to cvs

i would like to know if this is possible: create a shared git repository that connects to cvs post two hooks to it: everytime anyone pulls from it, it imports from the cvs repository everytime anyone pushes to it, it exports to the cvs repository basically create a 'lazy mirror' of a cvs repository that is completely transparent to...

Override the Local module directory for cvs using Hudson

Hi guys, I'm using Hudson and I need to change the checkout directory for cvs. Instead of checkout/update the project under the workspace dir, I'd like to specify a dir (as you can do for svn, changing the Local module directory conf) that will match the cvs tree structure. Eg. under cvs dir1/dir2/project on my box workspace/dir1/dir2...

How to get CVS notification emails to contain link to diff ?

Hi All, Is there any way to get CVS e-mail notifications to inlude links to my ViewCVS server where clicking a link could bring up the diff ? Currently my loginfo file just has entries like this ^installation cat | /usr/bin/Mail -s "[cvs-update installation]" [email protected] The e-mails we all then get (Afairly standard I i...

Netbeans 6.1 Incorrect CVS Status on a file that does not exist

Hi, I have been trying to figure this out for a few hours off and on now and can't figure it out. I committed a lot of binary (jar files) to cvs and they worked fine, but one of the 6 directories, netbeans thinks has a file that it keeps trying to commit, but it doesn't actually exist in the file system. There is also another file in ...

What's the best free open source alternative to MS Team Foundation Server?

I have a team developing software in MS Visual Studio and now they want to start using MS Team Foundation Server, mainly for versioning and maybe patch and bug tracking. They don't have any experience with MS Team Foundation Server, but they are very enthusiastic with MS products. So whats the best free open source alternative solution? ...

Save/restore git/cvs checkout changes when switching branches?

Using cvs, git or another technique (file system level?), I would like to: Make modifications on branch A Checkout branch B: Changes to branch A are "stowed away" (by name would be nice), branch B is checked out such that my branch A changes are gone Make modifications on branch B Checkout branch A: Changes to branch B are "stowed away...