cvs

How can I create a patch between a tag and the HEAD of a branch in CVS?

I have the following script but it looks like is comparing the tag with Head instead of the Branch: @echo off cd outlook SET /P startTag=Enter the start tag name to be compared with current HEAD SET /P branch=Enter the branch name to be used in comparison cvs patch -kk -R -r %startTag% -D now outlook> ../%startTag%.patch cd ../ What d...

update in Eclipse with CVS recursively!

I'm trying to run an update on my project in Eclipse with CVS. When choosing: Team -> Update it executes the following command: cvs update -l -d -P "/xxx/www" "/xxx/www" I want the update to be recursively, so the -l option should be removed. The problem is, I don't know how. I'm using extssh and it's not possible to set any optio...

Merge branch to the head in CVS problem

Hi everyone! I understand that CVS is obsolete system in out time but my company use it. Problem is the next. As usual when developing starts we create branch from head and start work. Some times later we re-base branch with head and merge head with branch. It is ok. But every next typically operations are with problem. Many-many files ...

CVS - Create Zip when comparing

When performing a compare of a CVS vs a local copy of my code, I am looking for a way to create a zip file of the difference. Example **CVS Files** File1.java File2.java **Local Files** File1.java File2.java File3.java If I perform a compare of the CVS vs Local code, it will find that File3.java is new, and that File2.java has chang...

Give Read-only access to a git repository

I'm not sure if this should go here, or on superuser (as it seems to pertain to both topics), so I've put it here, if it's not appropriate, all go ask it on superuser. Anyway, I have a git repository that can't go completely open source (otherwise I would just put it on github and be done with it), and I have a server that I have ssh ac...

How to remove a tag from deleted files in CVS?

I am trying to maintain a system of tags for my CVS data. One set of tags contains unique tags that never change. They are the nightly-regressed tags. The another type of tag is a single tag that keep on moving. This is the nightly regress-candidate tag. So, This tag keeps on moving from one version to a newer one for a file. Lets call ...

Is there a way to mark a project in eclipse if a CVS Update is pending?

Hi, when i startup eclipse, first thing i usually do is updating my source code to pull in changes from other developers (or from my home work). Sometimes i just forget it. But as we are usually working in a small team on HEAD, we all usually want to have the latest sources. It would be nice to let eclipse automatically (like every hou...

How to configure Cruise Control with CVS

I am first time using Cruise Control for Automation of build. Please Guide me how can I configure Cruise Control with my CVS Server. I installed Cruise Control , does it require any extra plug-in. how can I write config file, Where i have to place it. ...

How to tag a project in cvs and eclipse

I want to tag a release, but I don't see any option for it as below. I am using from eclipse. ...

Convert CVSNT to SVN

Is there any reliable way to convert CVSNT to SVN? ...

Control Version System for webSites

hi, I work as a webmaster with another guy, who is gonna moving away from our city. We're thinking of using a control version system to keep on working but we 're looking for help choosing one. We do not develop big heavily-coded sites, but small presentation sites (you can have an example here ) The most important things are: we have...

Re-importing from CVS into Subversion

The problem I'm trying to solve is not dissimilar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3762124/subversion-out-of-sync-with-production-code-easiest-way-to-update-subversion but somewhat different. I converted a (Java) project from CVS to SVN (using cvs2svn, retaining full history) - say at version 1.00 Development on version 2.00 conti...

I want to separate binary files (media) from my code repositories. Is it worth it? If so, how can I manage them?

Our repositories are getting huge because there's tons of media we have ( hundreds of 1 MB jpegs, hundreds of PDFs, etc ). Our developers who check out these repositories have to wait an abnormally long time because of this for certain repos. Has anyone else had this dilemma before? Am I going about it the right way by separating code...

Storing images in CVS through Java Programming

In my web app while creating a particular item users can browse and add images.I want to store these images in CVS.Any idea on how to do it?? ...

Generate a log from all commits I've done in a day (or in an specific date) using CVS (log or history)?

I have to use CVS in my work and at the end of the day, I need to generate a report in an internal enterprise system. I write meaningful comments in all my work. I would like to do a cvs log or cvs history, with only the comments from each file I have commited to the repository (a solution using only command line, so I could automate ot...

Does CVS allow modification of a committed file within a pre-commit hook?

I want to run all Perl files through Perltidy automatically on each commit, so that all submitted code meets a shared formatting standard. The commitinfo pre-commit hook provides information about the committed files, allowing me to perform logging/notification, but I don't see a way to change the file before it hits the repository. Th...

Getting SVN to shadow commits to a CVS repository.

Hi, Is there a way to monitor commits to a CVS repository on a daily basis say, and for those changes to be replicated in a local SVN repository. Ideally maintaining commit comments. A little perl ditty maybe? Thanks, Steve. ...

How Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) detects changes during commit?

Say you check out a directory of 100 files. You edit 5 of the files, and you go to commit the directory back. How does CVS know which of the 100 files were modified (not all of them were)? ...

Exception:invalid scm URL, on runing mvn scm:checkout command.

Contents of POM.xml are : <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"&gt; <!-- Parent pom relation <parent> <groupId>com.vod.atom</groupId> <artifactId>atom</artifactI...

merging two git repositories, one a git-cvs clone, one git-svn clone

I am using code from a CVS controlled repository (@sourceforge). Instead of using it directly, I was using a git clone of it made by someone else. In my clone I have several modifications. In the meantime the upstream project has switched to SVN (@googlecode). I was able to create an automatically updated git clone of that myself. Now ...