http://www.osnews.com/story/6096/Learning_CVS_Using_KDE_s_Cervisia Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:12:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? An excellent guide! Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Funny to see this article just after the one about Subversion the "CVS Killer" :-P Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Actually, it is a bitter coinsidence indeed. I started writing the Subversion article 3 days ago but I only found some time to finish it up tonight 'cause there was nothing on TV. :-) Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Thanks for taking the time to share it with us, Carlos. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? For those interested tla (arch) also provides some interesting capabilities: http://wiki.gnuarch.org... No I am not part of the developers for tla

While subversion is nice, tla supports many more features which are not included in subversion - or was not when I looked at subversion.

Personally I frequently use a private repository which I merge with "main"... I even have one repository on my desktop and one on my laptop which I then work against until I deem progress fit to make it into our (non-disclosed opensource project) main repository..... now if cervisia would only support tla.... Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Congratulations to Carlos Leonhard for such a superb article!

So he "is currently involved with the KDE Quality Team, a program to improve the level of quality of KDE applications by lowering the barriers to contribute to the project and consequently attracting new contributors, developers and non developers" ? -- If his Team contiues to work like this, KDE will rock even more....

The article seems to be one first step to "lower the barriers" and guide new contributors into the project. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Supporting Subversion is one of Cervisia's goals. Christian Loose may tell you more about this. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Hi Eugenia,

i was wondering if you're working on a review of KDE 3.2 (final.
I know you did one when KDE was in beta or was it RC, but i don't read beta reviews (i'm not a developer or a poweruser, just a normal home-user and still on Win98 ... keeping an eye on Linux and KDE for my next OS). I don't wanna get confused with betareviews, so waiting for more reviews of the final 3.2
Thanx for your great site and constructive reviews!

Bruno Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? No, I won't be making any new review for KDE 3.2. The preview I did back then is 99% on par for the final version of KDE 3.2 (the only new things added were just bug fixes pretty much), so there is not a point for a whole new article. Nothing new to write...

Please email me next time you would like to ask an OT question. Thx. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Thanks for this useful article! Maybe NOW I can force everyone to use CVS system to manage our work. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Thanks for the excellent how-to on Cervisia. I do a lot of PHP coding and have always wanted to use CVS+Cervisia but never could get the thing working till now.

So thanks! Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Great article!!! Thanks Carlos!!!! Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Hi thanks for the guide. We're testing Subversion for use with http://motorsport-sim.org as an alternative to CVS and it is pretty nice. Version 1 is coming out in a few weeks at which point things will stabilize. I hear SourceForge is also thinking of switching but that's probably just a rumor. The web inteface is pretty bare but you can tweak it with XSLT. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? "Let's not drift too much here, discussing these issues is out of scope of this guide."

Isn't drifting and being an opinionated jerk part of the swearing in process of OSnews.com? Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I disagree. I like very much the editorial line of OSNews. It has e very open policy on publication, and like opinated articles. If you do not agree with one of the articles, write a well written on point rebuttal, and I am sure Eugenia will publish it. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? This was an interesting article as a gentle introduction to CVS and Cervisia. Cervisia certainly feels like a high quality app and it was pleasant to try it out. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Thanks for that, think I may have to play around with it a bit later.
Cheers Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Very nice article. Thanks for taking the time to share Carlos! Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Why in the world would a user turn to a dying, bloated, unusable desktop like KDE to learn CVS when one could get used to it from a terminal on the elegant, low-footprint GNOME desktop? Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I am a gnome user and I personally dont think that KDE is any more bloated than Gnome. Your choice of GUI's and all the funny little proggies that you add are the ones that make it bloated. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I should make a point that, I havent used KDE in awhile, however; I will be checking them out again in the near future. KDE folks have way too many cool tools not to give them a 2nd chance. Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Normally I'm not into talking about vaporware but Carlos asked me to add some more information about what we are planning to do in the next version of Cervisia.

With the KDE 3.2 version of Cervisia, we made the first steps to separate the frontend and the backend. We now have a DCOP service that offers the CVS functions and it is now also used by KDevelop 3.0.

Now we are trying to go one step further and also support other version control systems in Cervisia and offer our backend to other KDE apps. We just started with the design phase and I'm not sure if we will make it for the KDE 3.3 release but it's high on my todo list.

The first vcs that we will additionaly support will probably be subversion because of it's similarities to cvs. Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Cervisia gives me stick about the CVSROOT not being set.
is this a flaw in the article or is it a problem wih my distro Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I need some more information before I can help you.

What version of Cervisia are you using?
What function were you trying to execute?
Any error message?

(Of course this is not a help desk forum. So if you think this is a bug in Cervisia, it would be better to file a bug report on bugs.kde.org) Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? am using cervisia 2.0 (using KDE 3.1.3) tryin to add a file to the myprojekt folder after having to add a CVS folder to it. i get this

/usr/bin/cvs -f add 'abc1.txt' 2>&1
cvs add: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option
cvs [add aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
[Exited with status 1]

i know this isnt a help forum but some pointers would be nice Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments