How to Use CVS in eclipse Quick Start Guide

Version control is essential for team development. CVS is an excellent open-source version control software. Eclipse itself has built-in support for CVs, which can be used simply by simple configuration.

First, we need to correctly install and configure the CVS server. Generally, the Linux Server comes with the CVS service, but the command line operations are cumbersome. A simple and easy-to-use CVS server is also available in windows. We recommend cvsnt to download cvsnt 2.0.51a, install and start cvsnt:

Switch to the repositories panel and add a repository named/CVS-java. cvsnt will prompt whether to initialize the repository. Select:

Then select "pretend to be a Unix CVS version" on the advanced panel ":

Then, add the user name and password for each developer in the Windows account.

Now, the installation and configuration of cvsnt have been completed. Next, start eclipse. We can use the original Hello project or create a new project, and then select the menu window> show View> other, open CVS-> CVS repositories:

Click the button to add a repository:

Note: Enter the Windows user name and password, select "Validate connection on finish", and click Finish:

First, we need to put an existing project into the CVS server, switch to package explorer, select Hello project, right-click and choose team> share project... :

Use the repository we just added, continue, and add all the files to CVS. Finally, the eclipse prompts commit:

Enter a simple comment and confirm. Eclipse then submits the entire project to the CVS server. You can see the icon changed in package explorer. The hello. Java file will be followed by version 1.1. Refresh the CVS repositories panel to see the newly added project:

In team development, after a basic project is created and submitted to CVS, other developers must first check out the project to their local computers for demonstration, first, delete the hello project in package explorer, then open CVS repositories (if you do not see the repository, add the repository according to the above method), select Hello project, right click, select Check out... :

As a project, you can view the checked-out project in package explorer.

After modifying some source files, submit the changes to the CVS server. Select the modified file or project, right-click and choose team> commit... :

Enter a simple comment and submit it to the CVS server. The source file version is changed to 1.2.

the preceding section briefly describes how to build a CVS server and how to use CVS in eclipse. You can refer to the CVS manual to learn more about Branch, merge, and other functions.