Revision as of 11:24, 24 January 2006

About CVS

CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a tool used by many software developers to manage changes within their source code tree. CVS provides the means to store not only the current version of a piece of source code, but a record of all changes (and who made those changes) that have occurred to that source code. Use of CVS is particularly common on projects with multiple developers, since CVS ensures changes made by one developer are not accidentally removed when another developer posts their changes to the source tree.

In order to access a CVS repository, you must install a special piece of software called a CVS client. CVS clients are available for most operating systems.

CVS client software is probably included in your integrated development environment (ie. Eclipse, IntelliJ) so check your IDE documentation.

NOTE: A SSH client must be installed on your client machine to access our CVS repository.

Core

Anonymous Access

All users will be given read-only access to the geWorkbench core. The project can be checked out through anonymous CVS using:

cvs -d:extssh:anonymous@adcvs.cu-genome.org:/cvs/magnet co -P geworkbench

NOTE: UNIX file and directory names are case sensitive.

Developer Access

Project developers can access the CVS tree via this method. Substitute developername with the proper value in the path below. When prompted, enter your site password.

cvs -d:extssh:developername@adcvs.cu-genome.org:/cvs/magnet co -P geworkbench

Components

Open Source Component

Anonymous Access

All users will have read-only access to open source components. This can be checked out similar to the way anonymous CVS is used to checkout the core:

cvs -d:extssh:anonymous@adcvs.cu-genome.org:/cvs/magnet co -P componentname

Developer Access

Component project developers can access the CVS tree similar to the way CVS is accessed to checkout the core:

cvs -d:extssh:developername@adcvs.cu-genome.org:/cvs/magnet co -P geworkbench

Closed Source Component

The main difference is that the source code can only be checked out by the component project developers. You cannot access the CVS tree via anonymous CVS. To checkout a closed source component project, use:

cvs -d:extssh:developername@adcvs.cu-genome.org:/cvs/magnet co -P componentname