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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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Compare two different tags in Eclipse's CVS plugin

It is very easy to make eclipse compare the current local state of the source tree with some specific tag, but I cannot find an option to use Eclipse's diff capabilities to compare two different tags. Suppose I have the tags TAG1 and TAG2, and TAG2…
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After git cvsimport, how to map cvs file revision numbers to a git commit hash?

I'm in the process of converting several large CVS repositories to git repositories. I've run git cvsimport, now I need to update some in-house tools that rely on the cvs revision numbers. The revision numbers are significant in that they are…
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will SVN save me disk space when converted from CVS?

HI i am looking for a straight comparison of CVS to SVN. wondering mainly if SVN uses less disk space or more than the same in CVS?
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Is there a way to detach a project from CVS in Xcode?

XCode's CVS support is abysmally bad. Or maybe it's just the server in my organization. Either way, it's leading to more headaches than it's worth so I'd like to "detatch" the project as I can in Eclipse. Is there an easy way to do this or do I have…
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Can't add a file named "VERSION" to CVS at the same level of a dir named "version"

I'm reporting a series of commits from git to cvs with cvsexportcommit. I've found that it's impossible to add the VERSION file in the following context | \_version/ | | | \_version.txt (to be removed) | \_VERSION (to be added) The output I get is…
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Would there be a conflict in CVS project in eclipse when using DAO layer

I just wonder if there would be a conflict in CVS project in this kind of setup. I'm currently creating a web application in eclipse. So I have a DaO layer which all CRUD operations in the database will be perform. So lets say, I have an Employee…
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Deleting Module History CVS

I'm searching for a way to delete one module's complete history. I'm starting a project and there's already one temporary module someone else created with the name I should use for this module. The repository has some testing commits and changes…
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In cvs,how do i search for the comments that are present inside a particular ,v file

I need to grep for specific comments from a cvs file and give an output based on that in a python file. For example, if there is a comment saying "deleted" then i need a command which outputs the comment so that I can assign that output to a…
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Whats the maximum size of file that can be handled by CVS?

I am trying to work with a file which is around 1GB. This file is constantly made changes to and committed to the repository and updated frequently by other users. And this file will only get bigger in the days to come. The problem is it takes a…
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File churn in CVS

I'm looking to find the number of times that each file has changed on a particular branch in our cvs repository. I'm particularly looking for all the files which have changed the most. A "top 40" list would be good enough.
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How to display list of tags of a given branch in CVS?

Anyone knows how to display tags of a given branch in CVS? Or is there any script to do the parsing of log file for this purpose? Thanks for your help!
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How to commit working copy to CVS repository if some files are deleted from working copy?

I want to commit my working copy to CVS repository, first I do: >>> cvs -n update to see what changes were made. I get the following: cvs update: warning: crc/etable.tar.gz was lost Then I try to commit: >>> commit cvs cvs commit: Up-to-date…
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CVS Branching + Binary Files

I'm using CVS through the eclipse plugin. I have a .fla and a .swf file which I have committed in CVS. I created a new branch and made changes in the .fla and swf files and committed them on the new branch. I want to merge the new branch with it's…
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Improper checkout of a project - CVS

I have a project whose structure is as below: ProjectA/: within this directory: Sub-ProjectA1/ Sub-ProjectA2/ Sub-ProjectA1 was checked out separately in ProjectA in an effort to re-use some code. The following command was given: cvs checkout…
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What are some concrete business cases for a CVS to Git migration?

I have been asked to justify moving a small team over to git from CVS/SVN. So far, from my reading, I can identify three key benefits: Speed Easy branching Distributed More features that SVN just doesn't offer (partial file commits, staging…
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