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CVS - Concurrent Versions System - is an open-source version control system

#Description CVS, or Concurrent Versions System, is a client–server version control system based on the earlier RCS.

A version control system keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers (potentially widely separated in space and time) to collaborate. Dick Grune developed CVS as a series of shell scripts in July 1986.

In addition to commercial software developers, CVS became popular with the open source software world and was released under the GNU General Public License. While there was regular development to add features and fix bugs in the past, including regular builds and test results, there have been no new releases since 2008.

Whilst it lacks support for features more prevalent in newer version control systems (Unicode support, file renames, distributed revision control, cheap branching), and is not in active development, it is still used by a number of open source and commercial developers.

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How to version control a subdirectory of a Mercurial repo simultaneously in a CVS?

How to version control a subdirectory of a Mercurial repo simultaneously in a CVS repo as a subdirectory? The reason I need this is that a private project version controlled with Mercurial has a subdirectory of code and resources that happen to be…
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Is it possible to rename a file and preserve cvs history?

I have a file that has been there for more than 1 year with periodic modifications. Now I have to rename this file, my only problem is that I don't want to lose the cvs history for this file. The history is important to me because I need to use it…
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Can't checkout project branch into main CVS Eclipse project

In my current development environment, I have a "main" project in Eclipse that maps to a CVS repository. Within this main project, we might have branched projects, but they're not "projects" in terms of Eclipse, as they still reside within the main…
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CVS remove a project from a branch

I created a new branch from HEAD and tried adding 3 projects to it. By mistake i added 2 additional projects to it which were actually not required in the branch. To avoid confusion to future users of the branch/head, i want to remove those 2…
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Merging changes from CVS repository to a GIT repository

Currently my team of 5 is using a GIT repository to track changes we make in our module and some in other shared modules. But we have a CVS repository which is being used by all other teams to maintain other modules. So CVS repository has latest…
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Access control over multiple cvs source code repositories

We have a server which stores the source code of multiple projects using CVS. The issue is that once a person is granted an account for the server, he can check out all the repositories. How can we enforce some simple access control, so that an…
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Can I get all the file extensions of text files in the repository in CVS?

I need a list of all file types of text files in CVS (such as .cpp,.h etc. ) can it be done?
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How to have "cvs update" ignore some folders that CVS is managing?

I have a system that uses CVS. Build takes a long time, partially because "CVS update" takes a long time. There are several folders that contain a lot of files that change rarely, if ever. I would like to have "CVS update" ignore those folders (i.e.…
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cvs2svn conversion at directory level

I have access to a repository that IT has created for me. http://oursvn_server/mysvn_repo I have access to the CVS files which can be accessed via /proj/cvs/ I want to convert all files/directories from /proj/cvs/* to…
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what to save in git (or any other revision control system)?

I'll take Drupal as the exmple for my first question. We have a drupal instance with a custom theme and many downloaded modules. We have a server used as the source code repo. The current workflow of work on the dev instance of drupal then migrate…
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CVS diff from inside VS2008

Creating an Addin to use your favorite diff tool for doing a diff between the current active document and the last checked in version seems to be one way to go. Is there an option in VS2008 that I might configure to do this for me ?
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Use Ant to tag a build in CVS

I'm building off of HEAD, and with each extract from CVS, I want to use Ant to tag at the point that I did the extract, is this possible?
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Visual Studio Add-in: SVN vs CVS

I have a CVS add-in to Visual Studio. The add-in writes to the output window everything I do (commiting, editing, etc.). I built a macro that takes the output window and uses it to my own purpose. Now I moved to SVN, and I use the VisualSVN as…
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CVS file location is valid in Perl?

Is there any way to find out that partiualr file exists or not in CVS? I don't want to check out the file, just want to see that file exists or not through Perl.
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In Eclipse, will this series of actions on my project in CVS do what I want them to do?

I am not terribly familiar with CVS, but at my work I have a project in CVS that is shaped like this: ------A-------B D Main branch | |----------C My branch The project at tag A works. At tag B, it does not, so A is in…
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