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CVSROOT Environment Variable for CVS-over-SSH

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:09:53 +0000

When using CVS-over-SSH, set the CVSROOT environment variable as follows:

:ext:username@remotemachine:/full/path/to/cvsroot

You may wish to use SSH public key authentication and ssh-agent to avoid having to enter your password on the remote machine repeatedly.

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:06:22 +0000

To generate a patch against CVS to your current sandbox:

cvs diff -uw

To generate a patch against a tagged revision (PROD_2005031101 for this example) in CVS to your current sandbox:

cvs diff -uw -r PROD_2005031101

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:03:32 +0000

To apply a symbolic CVS tag to all files in your sandbox, do the following:

cvs tag PROD_2005050900

where PROD_2005050900 is the name of the symbolic tag you want to apply.

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:59:56 +0000

Use the -kb flag:

cvs add -kb getacro.gif

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:58:04 +0000

To export from CVS, resulting in a directory structure with no “CVS” subdirectories, use the cvs export command:

cvs export -r PROD_2005100501 webproject

PROD_2005100501 is the tag (a datespec following -D can also be used); webproject is the source tree to export.