[Tfug] has anyone set up a cvs repository on a windows server?

[Joe Blais]

Hello --

I'm doing some development work using cvs for revision control.

Its been ok for doing work alone, but now I need to work with someone, so I
need to share the work I've already done.

Our main server, that has backup and all, is a windows server.

I tried copying my cvsroot folder over to the windows server, but i had some
troubles.

Some of the files worked OK.  I was able to make a repository with cervisia
(works with fedora 5 and kdevelop) while pointing to the mounted drive.
That seemed to work OK.

My real problem probably lies in the way I kludged some of the repository
files.

I have been making unit tests of many of the classes, but the unit tests are
in project folders that are different from the final application project.
So to share the source in both projects, through cvs, I took the
source.cpp,v files that I wanted to share, out of the cvs project folder,
moved them to a folder I called cvsroot/A_links, and then made links to them
in cvsroot/A_links/links (with the same name).  I then copy the links into
the various repository folders that need to share those files, like
cvsroot/project and cvsroot/projecttest.  Locally everything worked good.  I
would work and develop stuff in the projecttest, then just do an update in
project.

The problem is, that the mounted windows folder doesn't support the links.
I guess I could manually link everything from the windows folder (where all
the x,v files would reside) to appropriate linux folders, but that would
mean linking everything......

probably the simplest solution would be to share my linux cvsroot folder
with the other developer, but I haven't figured that out -- perhaps that's
easier - even trivial ??

thanks

Joe




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