tortoisecvs

Alternative SSH Application to Plink

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...

Get CVS history for a particular user

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. ...

CVS Checkout to a directory

How do i check out a specific directory from CVS and omit the tree leading up to that directory? EX. Id like to checkout to this directory C:/WebHost/MyWebApp/www My CVS Project directory structure is MyWebApp/Trunk/www How do i omit the Trunk and MyWebApp directories? ...

Do TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN conflict when simultaneously installed?

I am interested if it's safe to install both TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN on the same computer? All our corporate projects are controlled by CVS, but I want to use SVN for my personal documents (and TortoiseSVN as client). Is it possible? Thanks! ...

"Trouble launching CVS process" when using TortoiseCVS

When using TortoiseCVS, as I checkout a module, dialog (see screenshot) telling me "Trouble launching CVS process", "The handle is invalid". Any idea on how this would be happening? ...

Tortoise CVS: Can project list be made persistant (for checkout) ?

Since I upgraded Tortoise (1.10.4), the list of projects during checkout are no longer persistent -- I have to use "Fetch List" every time (unless I already know the module name). Does anybody know of a method to make them "stick" ? ...

Tortoise CVS - Prevent a user from committing changes in a branch?

How do I prevent a developer from committing changes into a particular branch in CVS? Recently, a fellow developer committed code into the main branch, leaving me with a lot of rolling back to do ;-( How can I prevent this? ...

Changing the "Yours" & "Mine" Names in CVS Tortoise Merges

I use Tortoise to interact with CVS for source control. When merging it shows you a diff of the files calling the one on your HD "Yours" and the one in the repository "Mine". Or maybe I have that backwards. As you can see that nomenclature confuses me. Then I also have to try to remember which to merge into. Is there a setting to change...

Is there anyway to get TortoiseSVN to act more like TortoiseCVS?

I work in a mixed source control environment. We are still mostly on CVS, but newer projects are in SVN. However, I am finding it hard to get buy-in for SVN because TortoiseSVN doesn't work like TortoiseCVS. The 3 way merge has a lot of cognitive dissonance and while TortoiseCVS seems to always get the merges right, TortoiseSVN almo...

What windows CVS clients support proper handling of encoding in comments?

We're currently using tortoisecvs (1.8.31) to commit/access our cvs repositories. We've recently wanted to support Japanese text in comments, so that viewvc can be used for browsing. However, it doesn't appear that you can set the encoding of comments being sent by Tortoisecvs are properly converted/sent as UTF8. Example of Tortoisecv...

Adding Shell Scripts to CVS from windows

I am going to add some Linux shell scripts to CVS. Can I download the scripts using SSH secure shell client to windows and then add to CVS using Tortoise CVS client? (Just for ease... We have nice GUI in tortoise otherthan using cvs commands :)) Will it destroy the privileges set from the Linux? ...

Mass conflict resolving

I am using CVS and after a merge, I have hundreds of conflicts. None of the conflicts are an issue (they're unimportant changes as a result of keyword expansion differences on the trunk and branch). I know no changes have been made to the files as this is simply a merge of a vendor branch into the trunk. A few dozen files have been ...

Problem with committting text files with non-ascii characters

Hi, I have a html file that contain some Greek characters, and whenever I try to commit it I got: commitlog: file="dummy.html" appears to be a BINARY commitlog error: file="dummy.html" appears BINARY but checked in as ASCII cvs commit: Pre-commit check failed I am using: cvs add -kk dummy.html cvs commit dummy.html Is there any way ...

Hudson + CVS headaches

I'm trying to configure my Hudson server to retrieve code from a CVS repository, but so far it's been a pretty frustrating experience. My setup is Hudson 1.310 running as a system service, CVSNT latest version on the server, TortoiseCVS 1.10.10. I'm getting "The credentials supplied to the package were not recognized" all the time, eve...

CVS in Windows Vista Best Practice?

I have to start using CVS at my new company so that I can play nicely with the developers who are all *nix users. I happen to be a Windows Vista user and unfortunately do not have the ability to switch anytime soon. I am also not exactly a command line guru yet, so any simplified method is ideal for me. I discovered TortoiseCVS today an...

What does a status of "P" mean during a Tortoise CVS Update operation?

I ran an "Update" command on a folder with TortoiseCVS and one of the file statuses is "P". What does that mean? I see "U" which I'm assuming means "Update" and "M" which I'm assuming means "Merge". I tried to open the help file but I'm just getting 404s, so I think the firewall at my office is blocking the help contents... Here's a scr...

Any way to get Tortoise Columns in Windows 7 or Vista

I know that Explorer in Vista and Windows 7 no longer supports extensible column views, but is there any way to get those columns in Windows 7 or Vista. I don't mind using an alternate File Explorer, but not knowing things like what TAG or BRANCH I am on is becoming more and more annoying (having recently switched from XP to Windows 7)....

Any tips for installing CVS Server and Tortoise Client on Windows 7?

I'm installing CVS and the Tortoise client on Win 7. Getting a warning "CVSNT Locking Service... failed to start. Verify you have sufficient privileges to start services" I'm running as Admin with UAC off. ...

CVS server configuration

I have a CVS repository on Freebsd and a ssh access. When I use putty client connection is ok. CVSROOT=:/labs/cvs CVS_RSH=ssh But when I try to do checkout with TortoiseCVS CVSROOT :ext:root@server:/labs/cvs error occurs: cvs commit: warning: unrecognized response Access denied' from cvs server cvs commit: warning: unrecognize...

CVS can't get latest files

I have a weird problem I haven't seen before. I modified a file in our repository and committed as I usually do but now when I do a history the version shown as current is the previous version. 1.180 oldFile 1.181 my new changes but 1.180 is marked current. Any ideas? I tried doing a fresh checkout and cvs update -A but still the file...