cvs tool

[manas ranjan mandal]

can anyone tell me how cvs work in myeclipse?can any two developer at a time update the same code in cvs?is cvs allow that?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Manas,
We have a forum for tools. I'll move this for you.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Manas,
This tutorial explains the concepts of CVS nicely for Eclipse. You can find many other tutorials by searching for CVS and Eclipse.

CVS does let two people edit the same file. if there is conflict on commit, you can do a merge.

[Pat Farrell]

CVS allows many folks to edit a project. I can't imagine working on code without something like it.

If you are just starting out, you should check out subversion (aka svn)
Its newer, free, open source, etc. and fixes some problems with CVS.

I use SVN even on projects with only one developer (me). Its too valuable and too easy to use not to make it part of your life

[Tim Holloway]

Traditionally, version control systems required one person to check out a source file, modify it and check it back in again.

This didn't work well for distributed open-source projects. People weren't on a fixed timetable, might check something out and then never do anything with it, etc. Which left it locked until an administrator manually unlocked it. Or two different people wanted to do things to it at the same time.

CVS was designed to avoid the locking issue by simply not locking. Instead, everybody's able to make mods, but if two mods are made on the same version, you either have to spin off a branch or merge the mods. Branches are for long-term diversions off the main project. Merging is what you do when there's a more short-term conflict either on the main trunk or a branch component.

SVN was designed to be a "better CVS", so it, too doesn't lock, and it, too requires a merging process to reconcile conflicting changes.

[sudha swami]

Hi,

I am using CVS from IBM RAD.Looking for good tutorial on how to use cvs commands from IBM RAD.
Any help is appreciated.

regards
sudha

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Sudha,
This tutorial explains CVS and Eclipse. RAD/RSA is built on Eclipse so the CVS part is the same.