1. Source Code Management with CVS Kurt Wiersma December 2004

2. Who Am I?  CF developer since CF 4.0  Big fan of Java  Graduated from St. Olaf College in 2001 with a major in Chemistry and a minor in CS  Currently working for the American Academy of Neurology (www.aan.com)www.aan.com  We are looking for contractors  Blog: http://www.jroller.net/page/kwiersmahttp://www.jroller.net/page/kwiersma  Email: kwiersma@mac.comkwiersma@mac.com  I have been working with CVS for a little more then a year

3. Benefits of Source Code Management  All code changes are tracked  Allows you to roller back changes  Allows you to track who “broke” the app  Codes changes across several developers can be synchronized  Makes it easy to backup your source code  You can work on several different copies of the same application at the same time. Example: development and production

4. SCM Systems  Open Source  CVS - http://cvshome.orghttp://cvshome.org  Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.orghttp://subversion.tigris.org  Commercial  PVCS - http://www.pvcs.synergex.com/  Perforce - http://www.perforce.com/  Visual Source Safe - http://www.microsoft.comhttp://www.microsoft.com

5. What is CVS?  CVS = Concurrent Versions System  Open source  Client/server design  Client and servers available for just about any platform OS X, Windows, and Linux  Traditionally command line based but there are several excellent GUI clients

6. Terminology  Repository - area on the server where the files are stored  Sandbox - a local copy of the code which you work on and then commit to the repository  Checkout - act of getting a local a copy of the latest version of the code from the repository  Commit - saving the changes to your local file(s) to the cvs repository

7. Terminology (part 2)  Update - getting code changes that have been committed since you checked out the project  Merge - combining changes between two versions of the same file  History - shows a list of commit messages, times and, who committed for a particular file  Revision - cvs assigned version number for a file  Tagging - a way to mark a group of files and revisions  Branching - a way to work on multiple copies of your application

8. Demo  http://localhost/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi

9. GUI CVS Clients  Free  WinCVS - http://www.wincvs.org/http://www.wincvs.org/  MacCVS - http://www.wincvs.org/downloads.html  TortoiseCVS - http://www.tortoisecvs.org/http://www.tortoisecvs.org/  Eclipse - http://eclipse.org  Commerical  SmartCVS - http://smartcvs.comhttp://smartcvs.com

10. CVS Servers  Windows  CVSNT - http://cvsnt.orghttp://cvsnt.org  Linux  Generally comes with your distribution  Mac OS X  Comes with the free developer tools  See my hint for setup: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020918 055124794 http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020918 055124794

11. Other CVS Tools  ViewCVS - http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/  CVSMonitor - http://ali.as/devel/cvsmonitor/

12. CVS Resources  CVS Manual - https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/  Web Site Projects with CVS - http://www.durak.org/cvswebsites/howto-cvs/ http://www.durak.org/cvswebsites/howto-cvs/  O’Reilly book CVS: The Definitive Guide