wincvs

What's the best CVS client for Windows?

We're currently using WinCVS but it's slow and has no merge dialog. I'm looking for something like Eclipse's Team Synchronize (so people can see what they'll get before they update). What do you suggest? TortoiseCVS with WinMerge? Note: OSS preferred :) ...

Creating CVS view from branch with empty directrories

Hi I am using cvs -tag -b "abcdefg" command to tag-branch in my CVS. My cvs repo has an empty directory "obj" in every folder. Whenever I use the command cvs co -r "abcdefg" REPO, I get a complete repo minus the empty folders. I tried using -f option too but it did not work. What is the way to get out of this? Thanks a ton. ...

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 ...

How do I set the default update options in WinCVS?

I'm using the WinCVS GUI (v. 2.0.2.4 build 4) and I want to have it default so that it automatically uses the "create new directories that exist in the repository" option each time I update. Anyone know where you can set this option? ...

how to obtain code from repository using WinCvs

Hi, I got a CVS connection string, here it is : :ssh;username=dummy;password=dummy;hostname=repos.mooo.com:/home/projects/repos How can I get project code using WinCvs, I've just installed it and I can't find howto online, maybe some help, thank you ...

cleanup batch file

I'm writing a batch file to cleanup my source folders. I want to delete all wincvs generated files with a prefix of .# FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('DIR /B .#*.*') DO DEL "%%G" the problem I'm having is that it's not deleting my files within subdirectories. ...

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 ? ...

CVS check out eariler date

Am using WinCVS, need to check out the whole project branch as it was on an earlier date... How would i do it.... Thanks a lot, Vinod. ...

WinCVS is not connect with CVS

I am first time using wincvs. I installed wincvs and try to login after entering CVSROOOT but it gives following error."Unable to initialize the CVS process: The system cannot find the file specified. The CVS used is : cvs.exe". What is the reason Please help. ...

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)? ...