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I'm resurrecting a rather old code project, from when I was using CVS regularly, as a component in a new project that I've already been working on using git. I still have access to the CVS archive ...
Retardation asked 1/12, 2009 at 23:48

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I ran an "Update" command on a folder with TortoiseCVS and one of the file statuses is "P". What does that mean? I see "U" which I'm assuming means "Update" and "M" which I'm assuming means "Merge"...
Devol asked 30/11, 2009 at 16:51

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I've been reading all the questions here on the subject of version control, but I don't think i found a scenario that looks like my own. The scenario is: we've got a medium/large sized web applic...
Detwiler asked 7/9, 2009 at 16:33

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We've been using CVS (with TortoiseCVS interface) for years for both source control and wide-ranging document control (including binaries such as Word, Excel, Framemaker, test data, simulation resu...
Ecstatic asked 28/8, 2009 at 19:39

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A separate question covers How do you rename a branch in CVS? assuming you have access to cvs admin commands. Is it possible to do this without using cvs admin commands?
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Truett asked 19/8, 2009 at 10:32

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I am trying to commit a project in which a file has been "cvs remove"d, but actually needs to be there. The contents has been completely rewritten, but it needs to retain the same name. I am unabl...
Earley asked 17/8, 2009 at 11:17

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Here are my two questions: I am now learning to manage my code with CVS, and I just want to make a repository for my C++ files, Makefile and bash and python scripts only, not the object files and ...
Ambrosane asked 14/8, 2009 at 12:52

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Can I create a single .cvsignore file to exclude specific patterns for the current directory and recursively for all subdirectories? Basically I want to say at the top of my cvs module to exclude a...
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Nerynesbit asked 21/7, 2009 at 18:28

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In CVS we have on project with multiple directories in there. There is a nightly build that has to pull in stuff from different directory in the same CVS project in order to build the nightly build...
Principal asked 17/7, 2009 at 17:53

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I have to use CVS in a project. So far in my whole working life, I have used only perforce and I do not know anything about CVS, I read the whole CVS manual but could not find how to do this : In ...
Hilaire asked 18/7, 2009 at 3:43

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When I do a cvs status of my project I get different revision numbers for different files. What is happening here? Should not all the files have the same revision number?
Pupa asked 5/6, 2009 at 11:39

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I have huge projects on a CVS repository, and I'm looking for ways to improve its performance. Would CVS compression help it? And what about encryption, does it degrade the speed? Thanks!
Unpriced asked 23/6, 2009 at 15:7

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Does anyone know where I can find a good video to explain version control to someone (mainly subversion)? One that explains it in the simplest terms (like for someone who has never heard of versio...
Tingly asked 25/6, 2009 at 15:49

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Introduction and Background We are in the process of changing source control system and we are currently evaluating git and mercurial. The total code base is around 6 million lines of code, ...
Molotov asked 22/5, 2009 at 18:42

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Someone once showed me a cool IntelliJ Idea plugin that would show all the user commit information from CVS right there in the Java source editor. It had a vertical bar on the right of the window...
Incorruption asked 19/5, 2009 at 15:57

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What is the difference between Git and CVS version control systems? I have been happily using CVS for over 10 years, and now I have been told that Git is much better. Could someone please explain...
Dettmer asked 29/4, 2009 at 14:19

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I have notice a trend for developers to comment their changes less with the justification that the purpose/date/reason is in the changelog. They have some very justifiable claims that duplication o...
Hawkie asked 6/4, 2009 at 2:19

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I am myself a subversion user, and overall very happy with it. However, there are times that I need to work on code stored on a CVS repository that is beyond my control (ie, some open source projec...
From asked 10/2, 2009 at 15:21

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We have several products which have a lot of shared code and which must be maintained several versions back. To handle this we use a lot of Eclipse projects, some contain library jars, and some co...
Misdemeanor asked 2/2, 2009 at 10:28

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A common scenario when using source control is to have a development branch along with versioned release branches. We use CVS, with HEAD as the development branch, and a branch named e.g. release-6...
Subtile asked 1/1, 2009 at 13:35

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Frequently I come across the following statements in C/C++ source code: $Id: lzio.c,v 1.24 2003/03/20 16:00:56 roberto Exp $ $Id: file name, version, timestamp, creator Exp $ Have you got any i...
Ambivalence asked 6/12, 2008 at 14:7

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I am converting from existing CVS repository to SVN repository. CVS repository has few brances and I'd like to rename branches while converting. Wanted conversion is like this: CVS branch SVN bra...
Beuthen asked 18/8, 2008 at 9:26

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My team works on a project in cvs containing about 20,000 Java files. Because of the number of files, it takes a while to do a cvs update. I typically keep about 5 copies of the entire tree checked...
Epochal asked 26/11, 2008 at 15:56

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How to set the CVSROOT environment variable in WinCVS?
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Gaga asked 25/11, 2008 at 12:3

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I have been trying to build eclipse fetched from CVS, but cannot find where to begin? Usually it has been simple, make X, build X, but I am not finding it that easy with this. There are hundreds o...
Dihedral asked 14/11, 2008 at 20:12

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