Hello all, just some advice please from those who are more experienced than I

I'm a student developing various websites for various projects and have done a placement year working for a web design company. During my placement year, I used Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe to mange the versions of our code and web pages. This worked okay, but being a windows application, didn't integrate fully into my linux development environment.

I have tried to get to grips with CVS and Cervisia since leaving the company, but have found CVS to be quite limiting. I have also tried SubVersion, but could not get the GUI front-end to compile on my linux.

I may be doing something wrong - or what I want to do may be beyond CVS, and this is where I would like some advice.

I am (currently) the only person editing the code - so concurrent editing is not something I need. However, I DO need to be able to share code between projects, where simply dragging and dropping could do it in Source safe, but CVS does not. I also need the ability to view previous versions and see the differences - which CVS does fine.

Is there an easy way to share common code between projects in CVS, or am I using the wrong tools for the job? If so, is there a better (Free) way to do what I want?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Take the common parts of code, and let them live in their own module on the repository. Then, you can develop on the common parts in a separate area, and then they become much more extensible.

When you need to include them, have your build environment automatically check out the latest version from CVS or SubVersioN. Then you have what you're looking for (I think).

Thanks orgcandman, I think I can see where I have been confused now.

I assumed the CVS modules were equivalent to the projects in sourcesafe, and I should keep a similar kind of hierarchy.

But what you're saying is that I can keep all my code in modules in any hierarchy I wish.

Using Cervisia, is there any way I can simply browse the contents of the modules without having to check them out? Again, like the project tree in Source safe.