Tutorial on Concurrent Version System based on CVS NT and Tortoise CVS Ver 1 0 1 Prepared by Marcin Rogawski Ekawat Homsirikamol and Dr Kris Gaj The Current Version of the tutorial was tested using the following tools Server CVS CVS NT ver 2 5 04 3236 Client CVS Tortoise CVS ver 1 11 3 1 CVS Server 1 1 Download 1 2 Installation 1 3 Configuration 2 CVS Client 2 1 Download 2 2 Installation 3 CVS Client basic operations 3 1 Check in 3 2 Check out 3 3 Add Add Content 3 4 Remove 3 5 Diff 3 6 Commit 3 7 Update 3 3 4 6 9 9 10 12 12 14 16 19 20 21 22 2 1 CVS Server 1 1 Download To download CVS NT Server type into your browser url http www cvsnt org you will be redirected to the webpage http www march hare com cvspro Choose Server Windows type your email address and finally change download location to USA Click on Free Download Now button Download of CVS NT Server should be started 3 1 2 Installation Start installation process by double click on icon of downloaded file Click next to make next step of installation Accept the terms in the License Agreement and then click next 4 Choose Complete installation and then click next After installation you will be asked about restarting your system Click yes 5 1 3 Configuration Click Start All Programs CVSNT CVSNT Control Panel to Configure CVS Server You should be able to see this window below For basic configuration you should prepare Repository Configuration and Server Settings 6 For repository location choose directory on your external drive When you click ok you will be asked about initialization of your CVS repository directory Click yes 7 Sever Settings for security reasons it is good idea to create a user with restricted privileges Choose this user as a default user for running CVS server Give full control permissions for repository directory for a user who runs CVS server 8 2 CVS Client 2 1 Download To download CVS Client type into your browser url http www tortoisecvs org download shtml Download version of 1 11 3 and start installation process 9 2 2 Installation Double click on icon of downloaded cvs client file When first window appear click on next Choose one of the option for restarting Windows Explorer 10 Choose Full Installation option 11 3 CVS basic operations 3 1 Check in To check in new project into CVS Server right click on the name of the directory Popup menu should appear Choose CVS option and then Make New Module Specify connection protocol server name repository folder user name port and click ok 12 You should be able to see window with success information 13 3 2 Check out The Check out operation is for initial download of existing repository Choose the directory for check out Do right click on the directory On the popup menu choose CVS Check out 14 Specify type of the protocol address of the server port number repository directory name of the user for connection establishment Click on the fetch list to chose directory with project to check out Mark directory for check out and click ok 15 3 3 Add Add Content The white question mark on the blue background within the icon of the folder in the local repository indicated that folder is not under revision control To add it right click and choose CVS Add from the popup menu 16 Click ok and folder will be under revision control in local repository To add files to the local repository right click and choose CVS and Add Content 17 To add file directory to the remote repository choose CVS commit from the popup menu Put your comment to the changes into remote repository and click ok 18 3 4 Remove If we want to remove file from local repository we should choose right click on file to remove then choose CVS remove If we want to remove this file from remote repository as well we have to do commit of this removal 19 3 5 Diff File in the directory was changed The white arrow on the orange background indicate the difference between current content of the file vs file content in local repository To see the difference between the file and the file in the local repository do right click Choose CVS Diff in the popup menu 20 In the window you can see the difference indicate that this line was added indicate that this line was removed We can see that there was change instead of rising edge there will be falling edge now 3 6 Commit If we want to commit this change for both local and remote repository do right click On popup menu choose CVS commit Put the comment and click ok to do commit 21 3 7 Update If we lose file directory or content of the file accidentally or by purpose we can revert changes by update operation Delete one of the file which is already under version control Do right click and choose CVS Update The File deleted from the Local Repository can be restored by this operation from The Remote Repository 22
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