CVS

Contents 1 CVS Tricks 2 Creating a Repository 3 Deleting a Revision 4 CVS'ing Your Dotfiles

CVS Tricks

ignore .cvsrc

       $ cvs -f

Creating a Repository

• creating a CVSROOT on remote machine:

       cvs -d </path_which_should_have_CVSROOT> init

example:

       cvs -d /home/schmid/cvs/ init

• importing project into cvs from local machine:

       cd <project dir>
       cvs -d <server:/path_which_has_CVSROOT> import -m "message"
                                                  <repos_name> <vendor_id> <release_tag>

example:

       cd cpp
       cvs -d alvis:/home/schmid/cvs import -m "cpp imported into CVS" cpp js start

• get checkout at local machine:

       cvs -d (server:/path_which_has_CVSROOT> co <repos_name>

example:

       cvs -d alvis:/home/schmid/cvs co cpp

Deleting a Revision

$ cvs log file.txt

RCS file: /home/schmid/cvs/something/file.txt,v
Working file: file.txt
head: 1.6
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 3;     selected revisions: 3
description:
--------------
revision 1.3                                                                 <- this is the one we 
date: 2004/09/05 13:36:35;  author: schmid;  state: Exp;  lines: +65 -1845      want to remove
"sylte"
--------------
revision 1.2
...

$ cvs up -r 1.2 file.txt

• • • CHECK THAT THE FILE IS OK, BECAUSE THE NEXT ONE CANNOT BE UNDONE!!! ***

$ cvs admin -o 1.3 file.txt

CVS'ing Your Dotfiles

copy all the relevant dotfiles from your homedir to a temporary directory:

       mkdir dotfiles_tmp
       cp .muttrc dotfiles_tmp
       ...

• rename all files to exclude the leading dot:

       mv .muttrc muttrc
       ...

• import the directory into cvs repository:

       cvs -d alvis:/home/schmid/cvs -m "something" import dotfiles js start

• remove the temporary directory:

       cd ..
       mv dotfiles_tmp trash

• check out the dotfiles to ~/.dotfiles:

       cvs -d alvis:/home/schmid/cvs co .dotfiles dotfiles

• symlink all the files to the homedir (the clever way):

       cd .dotfiles
       for f in *;do rm -fr /home/schmid/.$f;ln -s /home/schmid/.dotfiles/$f /home/schmid/.$f;done