Cvs

Hello,

I work for a website build company. We use red hat servers, with Apache, PHP & MySQL.

We need to have some kind of version control installed as currently we have nothing.

At the moment we have two servers a live and a development server, both of which are on the web - live and development URLs being different for each site.

From what I gather I can install CVS on the development server, then whenever a developer is altering files they can check out their copy of the area they are working on, then when finished check it back in, CVS doing its thing to stop version problems.

The developers work on Win2k machines and we want to use winCVS as the frontend. Can anybody give me any advice / point me in the right direction for some installation help and general guidelines.

I have installed CVS on the server and it seems to have worked as I can check out a directory into the CVS root from the shell.
From what I understand this creates a copy of the files which you edit....after you have finished editing these files and you check them back in, do they overwrite where they were originally checked out from, or do they remain ni the CVSroot?

I am attempting to use pserver to connect to the server from WinCVS, however I have so far been unable to do this. I have edited /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and restarted.

When I try to connect from WinCVS I get the following message:

<username>:<password>@<ip address of server>:/home/cvs/cvsroot (password authentication)
cvs -z9 -q -d server:<username>:<password>@<ip address of server>:/home/cvs/cvsroot init
cvs [init aborted]: unrecognized auth response from @<ip address of server>: Unknown command: `\'

Any ideas anybody, any help much appreciated!!

Cheers

Dear readers,

Can anybody guide me how to use CVS and how to install and run it. The documentation is a bit confusing me, so please help
me. Should i use both CVS and WinCVS for server and client or
only CVS for both client and server..???
Iam using below software for my project
Operating System : Windows2000
Server : Tomcat
Platform : (Java) Servlets

to "chinook":

just do a default installation. CVS is not as hard as the documentation implies. theory is much harder than praxis here

you should never edit /etc/services. unless you are using a very old distro or doing some really odd things.
when i installed cvs, i had big trouble choosing the right path to put into "inetd.conf" as the allowed CVSROOT. iirc you have to supply a trailing slash or it won´t work at all. But then - it could be just the other way around. Sorry, my linux box is broken since months already and from home (where i am right now), i can´t access our company´s intranet to check the config there.

to "fresh guy"

cvs is no server. cvsd is a server, but i recommend not using it for an intranet setup. it is only a wrapper to "cvs" supplying direct socket connections. "pserver" authentication is much easier and does not need a cvs server. it will use telnet (rsh/ssh) to connect to the server and run the local cvs installation there for access.

WinCVS is just a GUI for cvs on windows and i really like it. Use it. I am using it for the administrative tasks. Also i got "turtoise CVS" additionally to WinCVS for easy checkin/checkout/... it´s an extension to windows explorer(C), (R), TM, that adds icons for cvs-enabled folders where you can easily tell which files have been modified and also allows "right-click update/commit/...".

cvs is
- The Hirsch