CVS Know More?

prozac · 11-11-2005, 03:23 AM

Can somebody tell me more about cvs in linux systems or redirect me to someother papers with informations on cvs installation, usage, ...others in linux systems?

Thankyou,
prozac.

bathory · 11-11-2005, 03:31 AM

Installation
Manual Usage
Hope they are enough for beginning

prozac · 11-13-2005, 11:05 PM

what i need to do is keep a cvs repository in linux machine (preferably enterprise server linux:redhat) and then let users from various machines (mostly windows) access files they need. can i do this? how do i go about doing this?

bathory · 11-14-2005, 01:58 AM

You have to install a cvs server on the redhat box (you can use an rpm package for this if you're not familiar with compiling from source) and use cvs clients (wincvs for windoze) from the other machines. Also note that many development programs (like eclipse) have their own client to submint directly the changes to the cvs server.

prozac · 11-14-2005, 03:40 AM

i have found that cvs currently doesnot have support for binary files and this is a setback for my case. i am considering of other alternatives to get the results, what do you suggest?

prozac · 11-14-2005, 03:43 AM

or are there any patches that i can apply to cvs for it to work correctly even with binary files?

bathory · 11-14-2005, 04:10 AM

cvs supports binary files. You can take a look at this to setup cvswrappers if you want to use binary files

prozac · 11-14-2005, 05:00 AM

so i can set cvs to identify a file as a binary file by setting up the -kb option for all kinds of files in the cvswrappers file and this will turn off the keyword expansion and cvs would treat the file as a binary file. what about the differences? cvs doesnot provides a way to differentiate between two versions of the same binary file and users will be forced either to manually compare both the files to find the differences or use an external software (i don't know which one's are available yet!). i think this is going against the norm of versioning control, what do you think?

prozac · 11-14-2005, 05:03 AM

Quote:

"Until now, I've left unsaid the dirty little secret of CVS, which is that it doesn't handle binary files very well (well, there are other dirty little secrets, but this definitely counts as one of the dirtiest). It's not that CVS doesn't handle binaries at all; it does, just not with any great panache."

this makes me nervous!!!

bathory · 11-14-2005, 06:14 AM

If you are going to work with binary files then take a look at subversion

prozac · 11-15-2005, 02:44 AM

i think 'subversion satisfies my needs'. thank you bathory for your comments, support and help..you certainly made it easy for me. well i appericate your help and if you have more for me on subversion i would appericate that too..

thanx