Chapter 9 Tuning a Debian system

Chapter 12. Version Control Systems 209
Create a new CVS archive
For,
Then,
ITEM VALUE MEANING
source tree: ~/project-x All source codes
Project name: project-x Name for this project
Vendor Tag: Main-branch Tag for the entire branch
Release Tag: Release-initial Tag for a specific release
$ cd ~/project-x # dive into source directory
... create a source tree ...
$ cvs import -m "Start project-x" project-x Main-branch Release-initial
$ cd ..; rm -R ~/project-x
Work with CVS
To work with project-x using the local CVS repository:
$ cd # move to the work area
$ cvs co project-x # get sources from CVS to local
$ cd project-x
... make changes to the content ...
$ cvs diff -u # similar to diff -u repository/ local/
$ cvs up -C modified_file # undo changes to a file
$ cvs ci -m "Describe change" # save local sources to CVS
$ vi newfile_added
$ cvs add newfile_added
$ cvs ci -m "Added newfile_added"
$ cvs up # merge latest version from CVS
... to create all newly created subdirectories from CVS, use
... "cvs up -d -P" instead
... watch out for lines starting with "C filename"
... unmodified code is moved to ‘.#filename.version’
... search for "" in filename
$ cvs tag Release-1 # add release tag
... edit further ...
$ cvs tag -d Release-1 # remove release tag
$ cvs ci -m "more comments"
$ cvs tag Release-1 # re-add release tag
$ cd # move back to the work area
$ cvs co -r Release-initial -d old project-x