Re: Getting Started with CVS in Xcode
Re: Getting Started with CVS in Xcode
- Subject: Re: Getting Started with CVS in Xcode
- From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:08:17 +0000
On 15 Nov 2003, at 02:05, Lance Drake wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> Welcome to the tacked-on-world of CVS... I looked at your submit
> to the XCode list and thought, "How many thousands of person-hours are
> wasted by how many developers in trying to get up the CVS learning
> curve - and to what end?
Nonesense. CVS is easy to use. Xcode doesn't always update the status
of files, which is a bit frustrating... I have a few things that I'm
likely to file bug reports about over the next few days, but none of
them are fundamental problems with CVS, just with its integration with
Xcode.
> SCC should be a given, a no-brainer, a no-time-lost-to-more-minutia
> situation.
> But Noooooo...
>
>> I have created a root cvs: /usr/local/cvsroot directory, gave myself
>> wheel permission, and did a cvs init... <snip> I then set up the bash
>> .profile to contain the cvs environment.<snip>..added the files to
>> the cvs as a new project... <snip>......and the MyProj appears in
>> /usr/local/cvsroot/cocoa/myProj...<snip>...how do I get Xcode to see
>> this? For example, when editing one of my class files in MyProj via
>> xcode, nothing ever seems to happen to the repository.
>
> Your experience is no only 'not unique', it seems odd that this is
> not considered an issue - like everyone (unless you're some sort of
> noodlenoggin' dweeb that can't handle such high-falootin' concepts
> READ: me) should just intuitively KNOW how to install and use CVS.
No, but you could reasonably be expected to read the manual, which you
can find here
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/cvs/
cvs_stoc.html
or here for versions corresponding to newer releases of CVS
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/
There's also an FAQ-O-Matic FAQ, here
http://ccvs.cvshome.org/fom/cache/1.html
as well as the ever-useful CVS book, here
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/
> Anyway - Here's the link to the 'HowTo Setup CVS' page...
> <http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/cvsoverview.html>
>
> After using the VooDoo plug-in - for YEARS - with CodeWarrior, I had
> to give it up, along with CodeWarrrior to get with the ProjectBuilder
> - and now XCode - programs. SCC has saved my butt on MANY occasions -
> but I have to say that CVS is STILL not implemented on my system
> because I refuse to take the considerable amount of time needed to
> build the neural networks required to become expert enough to dink
> with CVS particulars.
It *really* isn't difficult. Accepted, the Xcode GUI isn't an ideal
interface to CVS, which is a shame, but I'm sure that will improve with
time.
CVS may not be perfect (which is why Subversion is being developed to
replace it), but it isn't nearly as bad/complicated as some of the
comments I've seen on this (and other) lists might have you think.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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