Version Control And Eclipse(part A)

In one of my pervious posts I talked about my mistake that I wasn’t use any version control sysetm to control my work
VSS was so boring for me as ajava guy it’n not compatible with eclipse as far as I know ,so I dig through the internet to find a suitable tool for me
And I found my one CVS
this article consists of 2 parts, first part is talking bout CVS
Part 2 is talking bout How to use CVS wirth eclipse

*for those who do know what is version control i found a nice story Published by FCI_H guys talking about Source control .

What’s CVS…?

CVS is the most popular version control system in the free software community, used by Netscape,, many Linux projects, and others.

Initially, CVS was designed to provide version control for a group of developers working on a single machine. There was a CVS repository somewhere on the file system, and every developer working on a project had to have a read-write access to the repository files, including auxiliary files used by cvs program itself.

So let me show how to Create CVS Repository

1- First ,download cvsnt and make your installation you can dig through the internet and find it ,if you fails ask me to Pass it .

2- open the CVSNT Control Panel applet. The applet is located in the Control Panel and is generally called CVS for NT
3- make sure that the CVS Service is not running. If it is, click on the Stop button to stop the service.
4- go to t repository configuration and Choose your repository location for example

C:/ Backup

5-go to Server Setting and In this screen, first change the Temporary Directory to C:/Backup (the location we created before)

6-Finally, go back to the “Service Status” tab and start the CVS Service service.

now we just created CVS reprository in the next part of the article i will show how to use eclipse with CVS

Best reagrds,
Essam AbdelAziz
http://essamabdelaziz.wordpress.com