Tag Archives: CVS

Not used often enough in my opinion

Posted on 2012-02-20 by Oliver

Often people put on a condescending smirk when they hear that I still have to use CVS, let alone Subversion, in some projects. In numerous projects I have seen the performance of CVS and that of Subversion and it is … Continue reading →

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Small problem with CVS …

Posted on 2012-01-20 by Oliver

Today I was trying to check out from a CVS repo like this: [1] oliver@foobar:~$ cvs -d :ext:oliver@cvs.domain.tld:/cvs/path-to-repo co module connect to address 172.16.1.1: Connection refused Trying krb4 rsh… connect to address 172.16.1.1: Connection refused trying normal rsh (/usr/bin/rsh) cvs … Continue reading →

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CVS and SSH on a very old machine …

Posted on 2011-12-01 by Oliver

Had trouble getting it to work with ancient versions of ssh (OpenSSH_3.1p1) and cvs (Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.20). Until I figured that I could write a little wrapper script to see what’s wrong. The wrapper script looked like this: … Continue reading →

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cvsnt [server aborted]: Couldn’t open default trigger library: No such file or directory

Posted on 2010-08-18 by Oliver

To my surprise I noticed CVSNT is now only available for money (and compared with my other development tools for a lot of money, so I’ll stick with Mercurial which comes with plenty of better features for which I would … Continue reading →

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