Is there a plugin or a way to visualize which files are branched and not in the HEAD? Our problem is that sometimes we have to branch just a few files and we may forgot to bring them all back to HEAD. So, some of there files may remain in the branch and we don't have an easy way to notice this. Thanks in advance ...
I need a way to figure out what files were added/removed/modified in the CVS repository comparing to my local working copy, i.e. what will happen to my local copy if I run "cvs update". It is safe to assume that I don't have any uncommitted changes in my local copy. The output of "cvs update" marks added and modified files as: U filena...
Everything was working great with the build. Then this started popping up after the admins did some maintenace. [workspace] $ "C:\Program Files\CVSNT\cvs.exe" -q -z3 update -PdC -D "Monday, August 23, 2010 12:00:52 PM UTC" Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password I've verified that CVS is working fine, and the account...
How can I detect when a developer updates files associated with a tag/label in CVS, then changes the tag to point to the new versions? The use case is developers surreptitiously making changes after the checked-in and tagged files have been peer-reviewed and approved, but before they have been built & deployed. I would like to avoid ge...
Hi, We have a cvs repository at work which we can't change right now but i want to use Git locally. I don't need anything fancy (in terms of cvs import). What i have done is checkout the cvs repository into a directory, then make that directory a git repository. After which i committed all the cvs files into the git repository. Howe...
I have some files in branch b1 that have gone trough several revisions. E.g., r1, r2 and r3. I want to merge those files into HEAD but only changes made in revisions r1 and r3, not the ones in r2. With eclipse I can merge only the changes that I want manually and then I can save the file and commit the changes to HEAD. How can I later me...
Like many other people we're having line ending issues with CVS. However, unlike most our problem is the opposite. Is there a way to force CVS to not convert lines from /n to CR/LF. I would like the line endings to remain in the Unix format even if I checkout to a Windows machine. Is that even possible? The problem: the conversion of t...
I am using WinCVS and when i try to update a module i keep getting this error cvs [update aborted]: reading from server: error -1 What is the actual problem here and how to resolve this? ...
Which projects still use CVS and why (other than "it's too much work" or "we are afraid of change"). That is, I'd like to know if CVS has any pros when compared to the competition. Subversion vs CVS had some interesting CVS pros, but I'm more interested on VCS's in general, not just a comparison with SVN. ...
I'm on a project where we're using a lot of branches. The eclipse History tab has columns for Revision, Tags, Author Comment, and Revision Time. There's no column to indicate the branch a commit is against. Now I can work this out sometimes by finding which revision a branch was branched from, but this is painfully slow sometimes, and so...
Hi there, been bashing my head against my desk for hours trying to work this one out. I want to use TortoiseCVS to view a checkout which was done by eclipse CVS. Reason being is that I can plugin better merge tools to TortoiseCVS than what eclipse can provide. Our CVSROOT specified in ./CVS/Root file of every directory looks something...
TFS version is 2010. CVS version is 1.11.17. ...
I'm trying to convert an old CVS repository tracking a vendor branch to git, and I'm running into a merge issue. The repository is structured like this: dir1/ dir2/ dir2 comes from the upstream branch. Upstream converted to git already, and dir2 in our repo is the root of their git repo. I want to add them as a remote and merge their...
When I try to install Tortoise CVS in Windows 7, it generates a warning. "This version of TortoiseCVS does not officially support Windows Vista or Windows 7. Proceed at you own risk" Any clues? ...
I have heard it is good practice to use some kind of document management system to keep track of different versions of your code/documents for school/work etc. I am still a student so my repository would just be local to my machine. I'm looking for some advice to get started/get in the habit of doing so. Im using OSX. What is the best/ea...
There is a file sitting in CVS repository of a project now, which needs to be moved to another project using SVN. And I want to keep the history of the commits. Is there a way to do so? ...
We access our CVS repository over the internet and it is pretty slow; is it possible to have a middle level CVS server locally so that we can commit/checkout from this and then this guy commits to the higher up. Also necessary would be to keep both of them in sync. Is there a way already for this? If not, then did someone else face simi...
I have read : "Best practices for using git with CVS" "How to export revision history from mercurial or git to cvs?" , and neither suit my needs. At work we use a remote CVS repo. Access to this repo is handled via eclipse CVS tools, and in-house eclipse plugins that are built ontop of team tools for eclipse. This means we can't mov...
Hi, I want to implement a continuous integration build system for a client. There source code is mainly c++ and .NET with a bit of JAVA. They use CVS for version control system as well as VSS for some other projects (i know, its old fashioned.. but hey they are not ready to make the change.) So i would like to know what your thought...
How to query CVS for "what have I committed to module M branch B in the last D days?" ...