Getting And Installing Cvs

DOWNLOAD THE BINARY

I downloaded the CVS Server and Client (2.0.51b) from http://www.cvsnt.org

READ THE DOCUMENTATION

The wiki for beginners installation tip is located at http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/InstallationTips

ABRIDGED INSTALLATION GUIDE

Please go through the official wiki before you install CVSNT. They have a great tutorial to get this on your control panel.

 A. Install CVSNT -  As administrator
 B. Create Users on PSEREVER - named john
 C. Modify CVS to handle Binary Files

STEP 1: Pre-Install Directory Creation

You need two directories on your LOCAL NTFS/FAT drive.

1. Repository - Where your files will stay
2. Temporary - For CVSNT's internal files

 e.g.
 C:\cvs\cvsrepo  - No Spaces plesae
 C:\cvs\cvstemp  - Again, No Spaces plesae

Give full control to SYSTEM on your "cvstemp" folder.

Procedure - Right Click on cvstemp -> Properties -> Security -> Add -> SYSTEM -> Full Control

STEP 3: Install

Run the downloaded CVSNT setup file

STEP 4: Reboot

Reboot the machine

STEP 5: Add Repository and Temporary Directories

Find on your control panel. Double click and STOP all activities.

Go to Repositories tab and add C:\cvs\cvsrepo as the repository. Go to Advanced tab and add C:\cvs\cvstemp as your temporary directory.

When you assign a folder as repository, a folder called CVSROOT is created inside it.

Step 6 - Adding Users using pserver

You can use other authentication methods[1] but here I will describe use of pserver.

6.1 Login as administrator (assuming user name=administrator)

First login to the CVS as yourself using sspi. Follow the following steps

If you have logged into the local machine follow 6.1-A

If you have logged into the network machine follow 6.1-B

If you are not sure try stuff in 6.1-A and if things doesn't turn out the way it should, try part 6.1-B to login as administrator.

6.1-A Login as administrator to LOCAL MACHINE (assuming user name=administrator)

 C:\>set CVSROOT=:sspi:administrator@127.0.0.1:/cvs/cvsrepo
 C:\>cvs login
 Logging in to :sspi:administrator@127.0.0.1:/cvs/cvsrepo
 CVS password: ******

Now you are ready to create other users using pserver. Proceed to Step 6.2.

6.1-B Login as administrator to NETWORK (assuming user name=administrator)

FYI: Your full computer name = computer name + domain name

 C:\>set cvsroot=:sspi:computername.domain.psu.edu:/cvs/cvsrepo
 C:\>cvs passwd -a -D domain.psu.edu administrator
 Adding user administrator@computername.domain.psu.edu
 C:\>cvs login
 Logging in to :sspi:administrator@computername.domain.psu.edu:2401:/cvs/cvsrepo
 CVS password: ******

Now you are ready to create other users using pserver. Proceed to Step 6.2.

6.2 Create New User in pserver

Now create new users who will access the CVS using pserver using the following command.

 cvs passwd -a -r  

 C:\>cvs passwd -a -r administrator john
 Adding user john@127.0.0.1
 New password: *****
 Verify password: *****

You can always delete a user by the following command after logging in as administrator

 cvs passwd -X john

STEP 7: Modify cvswrappers for binary file handling

Modify the cvswrappers file so that binary files are treated differently from text files in the CVS repository.

Basically, check out the cvswrappers file by doing step 7.1 on a folder c:\temp in command prompt (Ref [1]). Modify the cvswrappers as shown in Step 7.2 (Ref [2]) and then commit it useing Step 7.3. Remember you are logged in as user administrator.

Step 7.1

 C:\>cd temp
 C:\temp>cvs co CVSROOT
 C:\temp>cd CVSROOT
 C:\tempCVSROOT>notepad cvswrappers 

Step 7.2

Then copy paste the binary extensions from Ref [2] to cvswrappers. A copy of the list given below. http://devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm#install

• .cab -k 'b'
• .class -k 'b'
• .doc -k 'b'
• .dll -k 'b'
• .exe -k 'b'
• .exp -k 'b'
• .gif -k 'b'
• .gz -k 'b'
• .jar -k 'b'
• .jpg -k 'b'
• .jpeg -k 'b'
• .lib -k 'b'
• .msi -k 'b'
• .mso -k 'b'
• .pfw -k 'b'
• .png -k 'b'
• .ppt -k 'b'
• .sit -k 'b'
• .tar -k 'b'
• .tlb -k 'b'
• .vsd -k 'b'
• .xls -k 'b'
• .wmz -k 'b'
• .zip -k 'b'
• .war -k 'b'

 cvs commit

References

1. http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/InstallationTips and
2. http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm

Contributors

Jyotirmaya Nanda (August 9, 2004)

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Last Updated 11/17/2004 8:26:11 PM by '130.203.244.130'
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