(Note: These comments were specific to our company's use of Ant to deploy our Java projects. If you're not using Ant, any Ant commands shown here won't apply to your project.)
To deploy any of our Java projects using Ant, just follow steps similar to these to check the project out of CVS and then build it on the server:
The CVS Insufficient Karma message means that you don't have the proper security permissions to check files back into a CVS repository. This is a problem that your CVS administrator can fix for you, and in the DevDaily CVS configuration refers to improper configuration in the "avail" file.
Select "Create | Checkout Module", then fill in these fields:
Enter the module name and path on the serverLocal folder to checkout toI can never remember the command-line syntax to access a remote CVS repository via anayonymous CVS access, so just as a reminder to myself, here are the commands I used recently to access an OpenBSD CVS repository:
These are the tasks you'll need to perform to get started with WinCVS:
You can download the latest version of WinCVS from it's Internet home, wincvs.org.
When working with CVS, there are several concepts that you should know:
The following "Introduction to WinCVS" tutorial pages were taken from a short presentation I gave to new programmers and people in the design department at a small company I previously owned. As part of our overall development process we found it was helpful if everyone knew a little bit about how CVS works, and how WinCVS in particular works. I hope these pages will be helpful to you as well.
The following "Introduction to WinCVS" tutorial pages were taken from a short presentation I gave to new programmers and people in the design department at a small company I previously owned. As part of our overall development process we found it was helpful if everyone knew a little bit about how CVS works, and how WinCVS in particular works. I hope these pages will be helpful to you as well.
Life never ceases to amaze me. In this case, one day I write a rant about a Pigpen Developer who is anti-YAGNI, and then later in the week this exchange takes place.
Thursday morning, a customer tells me "Al, we're not going to need the XYZ functionality after all."
"No problem", I say, "I'll delete it."
"That would be great", they say, and I go off and delete all the code related to XYZ.
With a little down time this morning I thought I'd start a simple CVS command line reference page (cheat sheet). I've tried to include the most common CVS command line examples here.
Here's a link to a new tutorial I've created named "How to import a new module into CVS using WinCVS".
A lot of times when I'm using WinCVS I also need to jump over to the Windows Explorer (the file explorer, not internet explorer, although of course they are kinda-sorta the same), so I thought I'd make a note here of how to do this.
CVS command FAQ: How do I know if all the changes in my CVS sandbox have been committed?
One way to do this is to move to the directory just above the module you have checked out, then run the command cvs release command. Let's look at an example:
I needed to see a list of all changes to a certain portion of code in a CVS repository. Here's how I did that. First, move to the desired directory. Then, issue this command:
cvs -z9 log -d >2003-8-14
This is an easy task. For the purposes of this exercise assume (a) the high-level directory of your project is named "MyProject", and (b) that you are on a Unix computer, and (c) that your "MyProject" directory is in your home directory on your Unix system. With these simple assumptions, just follow these steps:
cd cd MyProject cvs import -m "your description here" MyProject alexander start
If everything works ok, you should see a message that says something like "No conflicts created by this import."
CVS checkout FAQ: How do I get a snapshot of a CVS repository back to a certain date?
To solve your first problem, let's assume that yesterday was September 14, 2001, and your project name was KickStart. To check out the code from your KickStart repository from late last night, use this cvs checkout (cvs co) command:
"CVS tag" FAQ: How do I tag a release of a software project with CVS?
Assume that you have a software project named KickStart checked into a CVS repository. Further assume that you want to tag the current release of the project with the name "Release-2001_09_15". Here's how to tag that release with the "cvs tag" command:
Several times when working with CVS I've forgotten to check a binary file into CVS with the binary file flag. Fortunately this problem can be fixed using the cvs admin command. It's just important to remember that fixing this problem is a two-step operation.
CVS binary file FAQ - How do I add a binary file to a CVS repository?
Answer: You add a binary file to a CVS repository with the cvs add command, like this:
cvs add -kb myfile.zip
CVS remove FAQ - How do I move or rename a file that is checked into a CVS repository?
Good question. This is neither obvious or straightforward with CVS. It also requires administrator priviledge.
To move a file that's checked into CVS and save it's revision history, do the following:
