Linux CVS/RCS HOWTO document for Linux (Source Code Control System)  <author>Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) <htmlurl url="mailto:alavoor@yahoo.com" name="alavoor@yahoo.com"> <date>v3.0, 23 October 1999 <abstract> This document is a "practical guide" to very quickly setup CVS/RCS source code control system. This document also has custom shell scripts which are wrappers on top of CVS. These scripts provide a easy user interface for CVS. The information in this document applies to Linux and as well as to all other flavors of Unix liks Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Sinix, BSD, SCO, etc.. </abstract>  <toc>   <sect>Introduction Source code control system is a MUST to manage the changes occuring to software project during development. Developer needs a complete history of changes to backtrack to previous versions in case of any problems. Since source code is the most vital component of any software project and software development takes a huge amount of time and money, it is very important to spend some time in <it><bf>safe-guarding</bf></it> the source code by using the source code control systems like CVS and RCS. CVS (Concurrent Version Control System) is a powerful tool which allows concurrent development of software by multiple users. It uses RCS underneath and has application layer interface as a wrapper on top RCS. CVS can record the history of your files (usually, but not always, source code). CVS only stores the differences between versions, instead of every version of every file you've ever created. CVS also keeps a log of who, when and why changes occurred, among other aspects. CVS is very helpful for managing releases and controlling the concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. Instead of providing version control for a collection of files in a single directory, CVS provides version control for a hierarchical collection of directories consisting of revision controlled files. These directories and files can then be combined together to form a software release. CVS can be used for storing "C", "C++", Java, Perl, HTML and other files.  <sect> Which one is for me? CVS or RCS CVS actually uses RCS underneath. CVS is a lot more powerful tool and can control a complete source code tree. It is <it><bf>very strongly</bf></it> recommended that you use CVS, because you can greatly customize CVS with scripting languages like PERL, korn and bash shells. See the sample korn shell scripts at <ref id="Shell Scripts">. Advantages of CVS <itemize> <item> CVS is de-centralised, user checks out files/directories from the repostitory and has his own seperate stable source directory tree. <item> CVS can "STAMP" releases of entire project source tree. <item> CVS can enable concurrent editing of files. <item> CVS can be greatly customized to enable strong locking of files or enable concurrent editing of files using shell scripts or PERL. </itemize> Dis-Advantages of CVS <itemize> <item> Needs little more administration than RCS <item> Very highly sophisticated and complex system. It is the "State of the Art" technology. <item> Has large number of commands and command options. Hence steeper learning curve for beginners. The shell scripts at <ref id="Shell Scripts"> can ease usage. </itemize> Advantages of RCS <itemize> <item> RCS is very simple to setup, less administration work. <item> RCS is used in a centralized area where everyone works. <item> RCS is useful for simple systems. <item> Very strong locking of files - concurrency eliminated. </itemize> Downside of RCS <itemize> <item> Concurrent development by multiple developers is not possible due to file locking and a single working directory. Because of single working directory, code changes of files by multiple developers can cause failure of 'make' command. <item> Cannot stamp releases of entire software project. </itemize> This document also has shell scripts which provide simple commands to check-out, check-in, commit files. See shell scripts at <ref id="Shell Scripts"> For RCS see the RCS mini-howto on the linux cdrom - <CODE> cd /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS ls -l howto-6.0-*.noarch.rpm rpm -qpl howto-6* | grep -i rcs </CODE> or visit <url url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/RCS-HOWTO.html">  <sect> Setting up CVS <label id="Setting up CVS"> First you need to install the CVS package, on Redhat linux use <CODE> cd /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS rpm -i rcs*.rpm rpm -i cvs*.rpm To see the list of files installed do - rpm -qpl cvs*.rpm | less </CODE> and browse output using j,k, CTRL+f, CTRL+D, CTRL+B, CTRL+U or using arrow keys, page up/down keys. See 'man less'. On other flavors of unix, you may need to download the RCS and CVS tar balls and follow README, INSTALL files to setup CVS. Visit <url url="http://www.cyclic.com"> and <url url="http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html">  <sect1> Environment variables <label id="CVS-Env"> The following environment variables need to be setup in /etc/profile - default values required for all users. If not set in /etc/profile, than you should add these to your local profile file ~/.bash_profile. <CODE> export EDITOR=/bin/vi export CVSROOT=/home/cvsroot export CVSREAD=yes </CODE> Create a directory to store the source code repository and give read, write access to unix group/user. <CODE> export CVSROOT=/home/cvsroot mkdir $CVSROOT chmod o-rwx $CVSROOT chmod ug+rwx $CVSROOT </CODE> To initialize the CVS and to put in source code files do - <CODE> cvs init # Change directory is a must cd $HOME/my_source_code_dir # Must give vendor tag and revision tag cvs import my_source_code_dir V1_0 R1_0 </CODE>  <sect1> Migrate RCS to CVS <label id="RCS2CVS"> To migrate the existing RCS files to CVS, use the following script. Make sure that you installed korn shell package pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom. After running the script move the resultant directory-tree to $CVSROOT/some_project_name <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> <CODE> #!/bin/ksh ############################################################# # Program to Migrate the existing source code in RCS to CVS # # Needs the korn shell RPM package pdksh*.rpm from Linux # contrib cdrom ############################################################# # Enter your current RCS file location here. RCS_DIRECTORY=/usr/home/my_rcs_tree # Temporary directory to hold the files TMP_RCS_DIR=$HOME/tmp_rcs_directory mkdir $TMP_RCS_DIR # Copy the tree having RCS directory into temporary directory cd $RCS_DIRECTORY tar cvf - ` find . -name RCS -print ` | ( cd $TMP_RCS_DIR; tar -xvf - ) cd $TMP_RCS_DIR for ii in `find . -type f -print` ; do # $ii will have like /home/foo/RCS/sample.c,v echo $ii # Get the dir name like /home/foo/RCS from ii kk=`dirname $ii` # echo $kk # Drop off RCS from kk - like /home/foo jj=`dirname $kk` # echo $jj # Move file from RCS to upper leve like # mv /home/foo/RCS/sample.c,v /home/foo mv $ii $jj done # Remove the empty directory RCS like - # rmdir /home/foo/RCS cd $TMP_RCS_DIR find . -type d -name RCS -exec rmdir {} \; # The resultant directory is $TMP_RCS_DIR (which is $HOME/tmp_rcs_directory) # Move the directory tmp_rcs_directory to $CVSROOT/some_project_name # Now the RCS is migrated to CVS as 'some_project_name' . </CODE> The resultant directory is $TMP_RCS_DIR (which is $HOME/tmp_rcs_directory) Move the directory tmp_rcs_directory to $CVSROOT/some_project_name Now the RCS is migrated to CVS as 'some_project_name'. You can start using the CVS commands on module 'some_project_name'.  <sect> Shell Scripts <label id="Shell Scripts"> The following are wrappers around the basic CVS commands. The scripts are written for Korn shell since korn shell is always available on all flavors of unixes, but you can translate to bash or PERL if needed. You can customize these scrips to your taste. They are basically CVS commands but features are added to make it site specific. For example, sedit script provides locking so that users will know some-one is editing the file. Ofcourse users can directly use the CVS commands to by-pass these scripts. These scripts demonstrate as to how CVS can be customized to a great extent. <enum> <item> <bf>sget</bf> [-r revision_number] <file/directory name> To get a file or entire directory from CVS in READ ONLY mode. Click <ref id="sget"> <item> <bf>sedit</bf> [-r revision_number] <filename> To edit a file in order to make changes to code. This will lock the file so that nobody else can checkout. Ofcourse you can change the script to your requirement - make no locking, warning message or very strong locking. Click <ref id="sedit"> <item> <bf>scommit</bf> [-r revision_number] <filename> To commit the changes you made to filename or entire directory. Upload your changes to CVS Click <ref id="scommit"> <item> <bf>supdate</bf> <filename/directory> To update a filename or to update a entire directory by getting the latest files from CVS Click <ref id="supdate"> <item> <bf>sunlock</bf> [-r revision_number] <filename> To unlock the file got by sedit. Will release the lock. Click <ref id="sunlock"> <item> <bf>slist</bf> To see the list of files currently being edited by you. Does 'ls -l | grep | ...' command. Click <ref id="slist"> <item> <bf>sinfo</bf> <filename/directory> To get the information of changes/revisions to a file Click <ref id="sinfo"> <item> <bf>slog</bf> <filename> To get the history of changes/revisions to a file from CVS Click <ref id="slog"> <item> <bf>sdif</bf> <filename> <bf>sdif</bf> -r rev1 -r rev2 <filename> To get the diff of your file with CVS. Click <ref id="sdif"> NOTE: sdif has only one 'f' because there is already another unix command called 'sdiff' <item> <bf>sadd</bf> <filename> To add a new file to CVS repository Click <ref id="sadd"> <item> <bf>sdelete</bf> <filename> To delete a file from CVS repository Click <ref id="sdelete"> <item> <bf>sfreeze</bf> <revision name> <directory name> To freeze the code, that is make release of entire source tree. Click <ref id="sfreeze"> <item> <bf>saddtree</bf> <revision name> <directory name> To add a directory tree to CVS. Click <ref id="saddtree"> For example : <code> cd $HOME; sfreeze REVISION_1_0 srctree </code> This will freeze code with tag REVISION_1_0 so that you can later checkout the entire tree by using with revision name </enum> <tscreen><verb> ****************************************************** </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> sget <label id="sget"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program sget # Program to check out the file from CVS read-only cmdname=`basename $0` Usage() { print "\nUsage: $cmdname [-r revision_number/symbolic_tag_name] <file/directory name> " print "The options -r are optional " print "For example - " print " $cmdname -r 1.1 foo.cpp" print " $cmdname foo.cpp " print " $cmdname some_directory " print "Extract by symbolic revision tag like - " print " $cmdname -r REVISION_1 some_directory " print " " exit } # Command getopt will not supported in next major release. # Use getopts instead. while getopts r: ii do case $ii in r) FLAG1=$ii; OARG1="$OPTARG";; ?) Usage; exit 2;; esac done shift ` expr $OPTIND - 1 ` #echo FLAG1 = $FLAG1 , OARG1 = $OARG1 if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then Usage fi bkextn=sget_bak hme=` echo $HOME | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$hme" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$HOME is not set!!\n" exit fi # Check if file already exists.... if [ -f $1 ]; then user_perms=" " group_perms=" " other_perms=" " user_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b3-3 ` group_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b6-6 ` other_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b9-9 ` if [ "$user_perms" = "w" -o "$group_perms" = "w" \ -o "$other_perms" = "w" ]; then print "\nError: The file is writable. Aborting $cmdname ......" print " You should either backup, scommit or delete the file and" print " try $cmdname again\n" exit fi fi cur_dir=`pwd` #echo $cur_dir len=${#hme} len=$(($len + 2)) #echo $len subdir=` echo $cur_dir | cut -b $len-2000 ` #echo $subdir if [ "$subdir" = "" ]; then fdname=$1 else fdname=$subdir"/"$1 fi # Move the file touch $1 2>/dev/null \mv -f $1 $1.$bkextn # Create subshell ( cd $hme #echo $fdname # Use -A option to clear all sticky flags if [ "$FLAG1" = "" ]; then cvs -r checkout -A $fdname else cvs -r checkout -A -$FLAG1 $OARG1 $fdname fi ) #pwd if [ -f $1 ]; then print "\nREAD-ONLY copy of the file $fdname obtained." print "Done $cmdname" #print "\nTip (Usage): $cmdname <file/directory name> \n" fi </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> sedit <label id="sedit"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program sedit # Program to check out the file from CVS read/write mode with locking cmdname=`basename $0` Usage() { # print "\nUsage: $cmdname [-r revision_number] [-F] <filename>" # print "The options -r, -F are optional " # print "The option -F is FORCE edit even if file is " # print "locked by another developer" print "\nUsage: $cmdname [-r revision_number] <filename>" print "The options -r are optional " print "For example - " print " $cmdname -r 1.1 foo.cpp" print " $cmdname foo.cpp " # print " $cmdname -F foo.cpp " print " " } # Command getopt will not supported in next major release. # Use getopts instead. #while getopts r:F ii while getopts r: ii do case $ii in r) FLAG1=$ii; OARG1="$OPTARG";; # F) FLAG2=$ii; OARG2="$OPTARG";; ?) Usage; exit 2;; esac done shift ` expr $OPTIND - 1 ` #echo FLAG1 = $FLAG1 , OARG1 = $OARG1 if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then Usage exit fi hme=` echo $HOME | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$hme" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$HOME is not set!!\n" exit fi bkextn=sedit_bak cur_dir=`pwd` #echo $cur_dir len=${#hme} len=$(($len + 2)) #echo $len subdir=` echo $cur_dir | cut -b $len-2000 ` #echo $subdir if [ "$subdir" = "" ]; then fdname=$1 else fdname=$subdir"/"$1 fi # If file is already checked out by another developer.... cvs_root=` echo $CVSROOT | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$cvs_root" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$CVSROOT is not set!!\n" exit fi cldir=$CVSROOT/$subdir/Locks mkdir $cldir 2>/dev/null rcsfile=$CVSROOT/$subdir/$1,v #echo $rcsfile if [ ! -e $rcsfile ]; then print "\nError: File $1 does not exist in CVS repository!!\n" exit fi # Get the tip revision number of the file.... # Use tmpfile as the arg cannot be set inside the sub-shell tmpfile=$hme/sedit-lock.tmp \rm -f $tmpfile 2>/dev/null if [ "$FLAG1" = "" ]; then ( cd $hme cvs log $fdname | head -6 | grep head: | awk '{print $2}' > $tmpfile ) OARG1=`cat $tmpfile` \rm -f $tmpfile 2>/dev/null fi lockfile=$cldir/$1-$OARG1 #if [ -e $lockfile -a "$FLAG2" = "" ]; then if [ -e $lockfile ]; then print "\nError: File $1 Revision $OARG1 already locked by another developer !!" aa=` ls -l $lockfile | awk '{print "Locking developers unix login name is = " $3}' ` print $aa print "That developer should do scommit OR sunlock to release the lock" print " " # print "You can also use -F option to force edit the file even if" # print "the file is locked by another developer. But you must talk to" # print "other developer to work concurrently on this file." # print "For example - this option is useful if you work on a seperate" # print "C++ function in the file which does not interfere with other" # print "developer." # print " " exit fi # Get read-only copy now.... if [ ! -e $1 ]; then ( cd $hme cvs -r checkout $fdname 1>/dev/null ) fi # Check if file already exists.... if [ -f $1 ]; then user_perms=" " group_perms=" " other_perms=" " user_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b3-3 ` group_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b6-6 ` other_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b9-9 ` if [ "$user_perms" = "w" -o "$group_perms" = "w" \ -o "$other_perms" = "w" ]; then print "\nError: The file is writable. Aborting $cmdname ......" print " You must backup, scommit or delete file and" print " try $cmdname again\n" exit fi #print "\nNote: The file $1 is read-only." #print "Hence I am moving it to $1.$bkextn ....\n" \mv -f $1 $1.$bkextn chmod 444 $1.$bkextn elif [ -d $1 ]; then print "\nError: $1 is a directory and NOT a file. Aborting $cmdname ....\n" exit fi # Create subshell print "\nNow getting the file $1 from CVS repository ...\n" ( cd $hme #echo $fdname # Use -A option to clear the sticky tag and to get # the HEAD revision version if [ "$FLAG1" = "" ]; then cvs -w checkout -A $fdname else cvs -w checkout -A -$FLAG1 $OARG1 $fdname fi ) if [ -e $1 ]; then touch $lockfile fi #pwd print "\nDone $cmdname" #print "\nTip (Usage): $cmdname <filename> \n" </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> scommit <label id="scommit"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program scommit # Program to commit the changes and check in the file into CVS cmdname=`basename $0` Usage() { print "\nUsage: $cmdname [-r revision_number] <filename>" print "The options -r are optional " print "For example - " print " $cmdname -r 1.1 foo.cpp" print " $cmdname foo.cpp " print " " } # Command getopt will not supported in next major release. # Use getopts instead. while getopts r: ii do case $ii in r) FLAG1=$ii; OARG1="$OPTARG";; ?) Usage; exit 2;; esac done shift ` expr $OPTIND - 1 ` #echo FLAG1 = $FLAG1 , OARG1 = $OARG1 if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then Usage exit 2 fi if [ -d $1 ]; then Usage exit 2 fi hme=` echo $HOME | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$hme" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$HOME is not set!!\n" exit fi # Find sub-directory cur_dir=`pwd` #echo $cur_dir len=${#hme} len=$(($len + 2)) #echo $len subdir=` echo $cur_dir | cut -b $len-2000 ` #echo $subdir if [ "$subdir" = "" ]; then fdname=$1 else fdname=$subdir"/"$1 fi # If file is already checked out by another user.... cvs_root=` echo $CVSROOT | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$cvs_root" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$CVSROOT is not set!!\n" exit fi cldir=$CVSROOT/$subdir/Locks mkdir $cldir 2>/dev/null # Get the working revision number of the file.... # Use tmpfile as the arg cannot be set inside the sub-shell tmpfile=$hme/sedit-lock.tmp \rm -f $tmpfile 2>/dev/null if [ "$FLAG1" = "" ]; then ( cd $hme cvs status $fdname 2>/dev/null | grep "Working revision:" | awk '{print $3}' >$tmpfile ) OARG1=`cat $tmpfile` \rm -f $tmpfile 2>/dev/null fi if [ "$OARG1" = "" ]; then print "The file $fdname is NEW, it is not in the CVS repository" else lockfile=$cldir/$1-$OARG1 if [ -e $lockfile ]; then # Check if this revision is owned by you... aa=` ls -l $lockfile | awk '{print $3}' ` userid=`id | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 ` if [ "$aa" != "$userid" ]; then print " " print "The file $fdname is NOT locked by you!!" print "It is locked by unix user name $aa and your login name is $userid" # print "If you are working concurrently with other developer" # print "and you used -F option with sedit." print "You need to wait untill other developer does scommit" print "or sunlock" print "Aborting the $cmdname ...." print " " exit 2 fi else if [ -f $CVSROOT/$subdir/$1,v ]; then print "You did not lock the file $fdname with sedit!!" print "Aborting the $cmdname ...." exit 2 else print "\nThe file $fdname does not exist in CVS repository yet!!" print "You should have done sadd on $fdname ...." fi fi fi if [ -d $1 ]; then Usage exit 2 # Do not allow directory commits for now ... #cvs commit else cvs commit $1 exit_status=$? fi if [ $exit_status -eq 0 ]; then print "\nDone $cmdname. $cmdname successful" #print "\nTip (Usage): $cmdname <filename/directory name>\n" fi </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> supdate <label id="supdate"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program supdate # Program to update the file from CVS read/write mode cmdname=`basename $0` if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then print "\nUsage: $cmdname <filename>" exit fi # Check if file already exists.... if [ $# -gt 0 -a -f $1 ]; then user_perms=" " group_perms=" " other_perms=" " user_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b3-3 ` group_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b6-6 ` other_perms=`ls -l $1 | awk '{print $1 }' | cut -b9-9 ` if [ "$user_perms" = "w" -o "$group_perms" = "w" \ -o "$other_perms" = "w" ]; then while : do print "\n$cmdname will backup your working file " print "$1 to $1.supdate_bak before doing any merges." print "Are you sure you want the merge the changes from" print -n "CVS repository to your working file ? <y/n> [n]: " read ans if [ "$ans" = "y" -o "$ans" = "Y" ]; then if [ -f $1.supdate_bak ]; then print "\nWarning : File $1.supdate_bak already exists!!" print "Please examine the file $1.supdate_bak and delete it" print "and than re-try this $cmdname " print "Aborting $cmdname ...." exit else cp $1 $1.supdate_bak break fi elif [ "$ans" = "n" -o "$ans" = "N" -o "$ans" = "" -o "$ans" = " " ]; then exit fi done fi fi if [ -d $1 ]; then print "\nDirectory update is disabled as cvs update" print "merges the changes from repository to your working directory" print "So give the filename to update - as shown below: " print " Usage: $cmdname <filename>" exit # cvs update else cvs update $1 fi print "\nDone $cmdname. $cmdname successful" #print "\nTip (Usage): $cmdname <filename/directory name>\n" </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> sunlock <label id="sunlock"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program sunlock # Program to unlock the file to release the lock done by sedit cmdname=`basename $0` Usage() { print "\nUsage: $cmdname [-r revision_number] <filename>" print " The options -r is optional " print "For example - " print " $cmdname -r 1.1 foo.cpp" print " $cmdname foo.cpp " print " " } # Command getopt will not supported in next major release. # Use getopts instead. while getopts r: ii do case $ii in r) FLAG1=$ii; OARG1="$OPTARG";; ?) Usage; exit 2;; esac done shift ` expr $OPTIND - 1 ` if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then Usage exit fi hme=` echo $HOME | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$hme" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$HOME is not set!!\n" exit fi cur_dir=`pwd` #echo $cur_dir len=${#hme} len=$(($len + 2)) #echo $len subdir=` echo $cur_dir | cut -b $len-2000 ` #echo $subdir if [ "$subdir" = "" ]; then fdname=$1 else fdname=$subdir"/"$1 fi # If file is already checked out by another user.... cvs_root=` echo $CVSROOT | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$cvs_root" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$CVSROOT is not set!!\n" exit fi cldir=$CVSROOT/$subdir/Locks rcsfile=$CVSROOT/$subdir/$1,v #echo $rcsfile if [ ! -e $rcsfile ]; then print "\nError: File $1 does not exist in CVS repository!!\n" exit fi # Get the tip revision number of the file.... # Use tmpfile as the arg cannot be set inside the sub-shell tmpfile=$hme/sedit-lock.tmp \rm -f $tmpfile 2>/dev/null if [ "$FLAG1" = "" ]; then ( cd $hme cvs log $fdname | head -6 | grep head: | awk '{print $2}' > $tmpfile ) OARG1=`cat $tmpfile` \rm -f $tmpfile 2>/dev/null fi lockfile=$cldir/$1-$OARG1 #echo lockfile is : $lockfile if [ ! -e $lockfile ]; then print "\nFile $1 revision $OARG1 is NOT locked by anyone" print " " exit fi ans="" while : do print "\n\n***************************************************" print "WARNING: $cmdname will release lock and enable other" print " developers to edit the file. It is advisable" print " to save your changes with scommit command" print "***************************************************" print -n "\nAre you sure you want to unlock the file <y/n>? [n]: " read ans if [ "$ans" = "" -o "$ans" = " " -o "$ans" = "n" -o "$ans" = "N" ]; then print "\nAborting $cmdname ...." exit fi if [ "$ans" = "y" -o "$ans" = "Y" ]; then print "\n\n\n\n\n " print "CAUTION: You may lose all the changes made to file!!" print -n "Do you really want to unlock the file <y/n>? [n]: " read ans if [ "$ans" = "y" -o "$ans" = "Y" ]; then break else exit fi else print "\n\nWrong entry. Try again..." sleep 1 fi done if [ -e $lockfile ]; then \rm -f $lockfile print "\nDone $cmdname" else print "\nFile $1 is NOT locked by anyone" print " " fi </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> slist <label id="slist"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program slist # Program to list all edited source files from CVS #cmdname=`basename $0` if [ "$1" = "" ]; then dir=. else dir=$1 fi FOUT=slist_temporary_file.out \rm -f $FOUT find $dir -type f -exec ls -ltr {} \; \ | grep -v "/CVS/" \ | grep ^\-rw \ | grep -v \\.o \ | grep -v \\.log \ | grep -v \\.out \ | grep -v \\.pid \ | awk '{ if ($NF != "tags") print $0 }' \ | awk '{ if ($NF != "a.out") print $0 }' \ | awk '{ if ($NF != "core") print $0 }' \ | awk '{ print $NF }' > $FOUT aa=`cat $FOUT` \rm -f $FOUT for ii in $aa ; do ftype=" " ftype=`file $ii | awk '{print $2 }' ` # find . -type f -exec file {} \; # 1)ELF 2)commands 3)[nt]roff, 4)c 5)English 6)executable # 7)ascii 8)current 9)empty # Binaries are ELF, lib.a are current # if [ "$ftype" = "ascii" -o "$ftype" = "commands" \ -o "$ftype" = "[nt]roff," -o "$ftype" = "c" \ -o "$ftype" = "English" -o "$ftype" = "executable" ]; then pcfile=` echo $ii | cut -d'.' -f1` pcfile=${pcfile}".pc" if [ ! -f $pcfile ]; then ls -l $ii else if [ "$ii" = "$pcfile" ]; then ls -l $ii fi fi fi done; #| grep -v ^\-rwx \ #ls -l | grep ^\-rw | grep -v \\.o #ls -l | grep ^\-rw | grep -v \\.o | awk '{ if ($NF != "tags") print $0 }' #ls -l | grep ^\-rw | grep -v ^\-rwx | grep -v \\.o | awk '{ if ($NF != "tags") print $0 }' | awk '{ if ($NF != "core") print $0 }' #print "\nDone $cmdname. $cmdname successful" #print "\nTip (Usage): $cmdname <filename>\n" </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> sinfo <label id="sinfo"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program sinfo # Program to get the status of files in working directory cmdname=`basename $0` if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then print "\nUsage: $cmdname [file/directory name] " print "For example - " print " $cmdname foo.cpp" print " $cmdname some_directory " print " " exit fi hme=` echo $HOME | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$hme" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$HOME is not set!!\n" exit fi tmpfile=$hme/cvs_sinfo.tmp rm -f $tmpfile cur_dir=`pwd` #echo $cur_dir len=${#hme} len=$(($len + 2)) #echo $len subdir=` echo $cur_dir | cut -b $len-2000 ` #echo $subdir if [ "$subdir" = "" ]; then fdname=$1 else fdname=$subdir"/"$1 fi # Create subshell if [ -f $1 ]; then ( cd $hme clear cvs status $fdname ) elif [ -d $1 ]; then ( cd $hme clear echo " " >> $tmpfile echo " ****************************************" >> $tmpfile echo " Overall Status of Directory" >> $tmpfile echo " ****************************************" >> $tmpfile cvs release $fdname 1>>$tmpfile 2>>$tmpfile << EOF Y EOF echo "\n -------------------------------\n" >> $tmpfile aa=`cat $tmpfile | grep ^"M " | awk '{print $2}' ` for ii in $aa do jj="(cd $hme; cvs status $subdir/$ii );" echo $jj | /bin/sh \ | grep -v Sticky | awk '{if (NF != 0) print $0}' \ 1>>$tmpfile 2>>$tmpfile done cat $tmpfile | grep -v ^? | grep -v "Are you sure you want to release" \ | less rm -f $tmpfile ) else print "\nArgument $1 if not a file or directory" exit fi </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> slog <label id="slog"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program slog # Program to list history of the file in CVS cmdname=`basename $0` if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then print "\nUsage: $cmdname <filename> \n" exit fi # Check if file does not exist.... if [ ! -f $1 ]; then print "\nError: $1 is NOT a file. Aborting $cmdname ......" exit fi cvs log $1 | /usr/local/bin/less print "\nDone $cmdname. $cmdname successful" #print "\nTip (Usage): $cmdname <filename>\n" </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> sdif <label id="sdif"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program sdif # Program to see difference of the working file with CVS copy cmdname=`basename $0` Usage() { print "\nUsage: $cmdname <filename> " print "$cmdname -r<rev1> -r<rev2> <filename> \n" exit } FLAG1="" FLAG2="" OARG1="" OARG2="" # Command getopt will not supported in next major release. # Use getopts instead. while getopts r:r: ii do case $ii in r) if [ "$FLAG1" = "" ]; then FLAG1=$ii; OARG1="$OPTARG" else FLAG2=$ii; OARG2="$OPTARG" fi ;; ?) Usage; exit 2;; esac done shift ` expr $OPTIND - 1 ` if [ "$FLAG2" = "" ]; then FLAG2=r OARG2=HEAD fi if [ "$FLAG1" = "" ]; then cvs diff -r HEAD $1 | less else cvs diff -$FLAG1 $OARG1 -$FLAG2 $OARG2 $1 | less fi </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> sadd <label id="sadd"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # test # CVS program sadd # Program to add the file to CVS cmdname=`basename $0` if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then print "\nUsage: $cmdname <filename/directory> \n" exit fi # Check if file exists .... if [ -f $1 ]; then cvs add $1 exit fi if [ ! -d $1 ]; then print "\nArgument $1 is not a file and not a directory!" print "Usage: $cmdname <filename/directory> \n" exit fi # Argument is a directory name ..... hme=` echo $HOME | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$hme" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$HOME is not set!!\n" exit fi cur_dir=`pwd` len=${#hme} len=$(($len + 2)) subdir=` echo $cur_dir | cut -b $len-2000 ` if [ "$subdir" = "" ]; then if [ -d $CVSROOT/$1 ]; then print "\nDirectory $1 already exists in CVSROOT" exit else # You are adding at root directory $CVSROOT if [ "$2" = "" -o "$3" = "" ]; then print "\nUsage: $cmdname <directory> <vendor tag> <release tag>" print "For example - " print " $cmdname foo_directory V_1_0 R_1_0" exit else ( cd $1; cvs import $1 $2 $3 ) fi fi else # If current directory exists in CVS... if [ -d $CVSROOT/$subdir ]; then if [ -d $CVSROOT/$subdir/$1 ]; then print "\nDirectory $1 already in CVS repository!" else cvs add $1 fi else print "\nSub-directory $subdir does not exist in CVS" print "You need to first add $subdir to CVS" exit fi fi </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> sdelete <label id="sdelete"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program sdelete # Program to delete the file from CVS cmdname=`basename $0` if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then print "\nUsage: $cmdname <filename> \n" exit fi # Check if file does not exist.... if [ ! -f $1 ]; then # Try to get the file from CVS sget $1 if [ ! -f $1 ]; then print "\nError: $1 does NOT exist in CVS repository. Aborting $cmdname ......" exit fi fi bkextn=cvs_sdelete_safety_backup \mv -f $1 $1.$bkextn cvs remove $1 print "\nsdelete command removes the file from CVS repository" print "and archives the file in CVS Attic directory. In case" print "you need this file in future than contact your CVS administrator" print " " print "\nDone $cmdname. $cmdname successful" #print "\nTip (Usage): $cmdname <filename>\n" \mv -f $1.$bkextn $1 </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> sfreeze <label id="sfreeze"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh # CVS program sfreeze # Program to freeze and cut out the release of source tree from CVS cmdname=`basename $0` Usage() { print "\nUsage: $cmdname symbolic_tag <directory name> " print "\nFor example :- " print " cd \$HOME" print " $cmdname REVISION_1 mesa" print "To see the list of revisons do -" print "slog <filename> and see the symbolic name and do -" print "cvs history -T" print "\nTo create a branch off-shoot from main trunk, use" print "the -b and -r options which makes the tag a branch tag. This is" print "useful for creating a patch to previously released software" print "For example :- " print " cd \$HOME" print " cvs rtag -b -r REVISION_1 REVISION_1_1 mesa" print " " # print "\nTag info is located at \$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/taginfo,v" # print "You can do - cd $HOME; sget CVSROOT" # print "to see this file" exit } # Command getopt will not supported in next major release. # Use getopts instead. #while getopts r: ii #do # case $ii in # r) FLAG1=$ii; OARG1="$OPTARG";; # ?) Usage; exit 2;; # esac #done #shift ` expr $OPTIND - 1 ` #echo FLAG1 = $FLAG1 , OARG1 = $OARG1 if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then Usage fi if [ ! -d $2 ]; then print "\nError: Second argument $2 is not a directory!" print " Aborting $cmdname...." print " " exit fi # cvs rtag symbolic_tag <directory name> cvs rtag $1 $2 print "\nDone $cmdname. $cmdname successful" </verb></tscreen>  <sect1> saddtree <label id="saddtree"> <bf>NOTE : <it>Korn shell /bin/ksh is got by installing pdksh*.rpm from Linux contrib cdrom</it></bf> Save this file as text file and chmod a+rx on it. <tscreen><verb> #!/bin/ksh ################################################################ # Sample Program to checkin a directory tree (let's say SAMP) into CVS # Note that if SAMP directory is not in CVS than you would use sadd # command and - # cd SAMP; cvs import SAMP V_1_0 R_1_0 # After running this program do - # cd $HOME/foo/SAMP # cvs import foo/SAMP V1_0 Rev_1_0 ################################################################ hme=` echo $HOME | cut -f1 -d' ' ` if [ "$hme" = "" ]; then print "\nError: \$HOME is not set!!\n" exit fi sampdir=$hme/foo/SAMP check_out_files() { # Now check out the files tmp2f=$hme/tmp2.baksamp.sh cd $hme \rm -rf foo/SAMP cvs -w checkout foo/SAMP cd $hme/foo find SAMP -type f -print > $tmp2f cd $hme for ii in `cat $tmp2f` do iidir=`dirname $ii` iifile=`basename $ii` if [ "$iifile" = "Root" -o "$iifile" = "Repository" -o "$iifile" = "Entries" ]; then continue fi jjdir=` echo $iidir | cut -d'/' -f2-1000 ` cp $hme/foo/SAMP.tobe/$jjdir/$iifile $hme/foo/$iidir/$iifile echo "cp $hme/foo/SAMP.tobe/$jjdir/$iifile $hme/foo/$iidir/$iifile " cvs add foo/$iidir/$iifile done print print "================================================" print " Now run cvs commit foo/SAMP" print " After commit. Do - " print " cd foo; rm -rf SAMP and " print " get fresh copy, sget SAMP" print " Verify with slog filename.samp to see new revision" print "================================================" print } check_out_files </verb></tscreen>  <sect> CVS Documentation <label id="CVS Documentation"> At unix prompt type - <enum> <item> cvs --help <item> cvs --help-options <item> cvs --help-commands <item> cvs -H checkout <item> cvs -H commit <item> man cvs <item> man tkcvs <item> Visit <url url="http://www.cyclic.com"> <item> Visit <url url="http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html"> </enum> The tkcvs <url url="http://www.tkcvs.org"> is the Tcl/Tk GUI interface to CVS. It also has online help. <itemize> <item> cd $HOME/src/foo.cpp <item> tkcvs <item> Click on foo.cpp <item> Click on 'Revision Log Icon' which is located next to 'spectacle' icon <item> This will display the branch TREE in the window. Now RIGHT Mouse button click on the text '1.3' and LEFT Mouse button click on text '1.1'. Than click on "Diff" button. This will display 2 pane-window!! <item> Click on "Next" button to step thru more diffs. Click on "Center" to center the text. </itemize> There is also a Windows 95 client for CVS, and is called WinCVS <url url="http://www.wincvs.org"> WinCVS can be used along with Samba - <url url="http://www.samba.org"> The essential command are - <itemize> <item> cvs checkout <filename > <item> cvs update <filename> <item> cvs add <file, ..> <item> cvs remove <file, ..> <item> cvs commit <file> <item> cvs status <filename> <item> cvs log <filename> <item> cvs diff -r1.4 -r1.5 <filename> This gives diff between version 1.4 and 1.5 on filename. </itemize>  <sect> Emacs Editor <label id="Emacs"> Emacs is a powerful editor and it supports CVS/RCS - especially for revision merging and comparing. Emacs main site is at <url url="http://www.emacs.org">.  <sect> Other Formats of this Document This document is published in 10 different formats namely - DVI, Postscript, Latex, LyX, GNU-info, HTML, RTF(Rich Text Format), Plain-text, Unix man pages and SGML. <itemize> <item> You can get this HOWTO document as a single file tar ball in HTML, DVI, Postscript or SGML formats from - <url url="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/"> or <url url="ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/"> <item>Plain text format is in: <url url="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO"> or <url url="ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO"> <item>Translations to other languages like French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese are in <url url="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO"> or <url url="ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO"> Any help from you to translate to other languages is welcome. </itemize> The document is written using a tool called "SGML tool" which can be got from - <url url="http://www.xs4all.nl/~cg/sgmltools/"> Compiling the source you will get the following commands like <itemize> <item>sgml2html cvs-rcs-howto.sgml (to generate html file) <item>sgml2rtf cvs-rcs-howto.sgml (to generate RTF file) <item>sgml2latex cvs-rcs-howto.sgml (to generate latex file) </itemize> This document is located at - <itemize> <item> <url url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html"> </itemize> Also you can find this document at the following mirrors sites - <itemize> <item> <url url="http://www.caldera.com/LDP/HOWTO/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html"> <item> <url url="http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html"> <item> <url url="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/HOWTO/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html"> <item> <url url="http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html"> <item> Other mirror sites near you (network-address-wise) can be found at <url url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/hmirrors.html"> select a site and go to directory /LDP/HOWTO/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html </itemize> In order to view the document in dvi format, use the xdvi program. The xdvi program is located in tetex-xdvi*.rpm package in Redhat Linux which can be located through ControlPanel | Applications | Publishing | TeX menu buttons. <tscreen><verb> To read dvi document give the command - xdvi -geometry 80x90 howto.dvi And resize the window with mouse. See man page on xdvi. To navigate use Arrow keys, Page Up, Page Down keys, also you can use 'f', 'd', 'u', 'c', 'l', 'r', 'p', 'n' letter keys to move up, down, center, next page, previous page etc. To turn off expert menu press 'x'. </verb></tscreen> You can read postscript file using the program 'gv' (ghostview) or 'ghostscript'. The ghostscript program is in ghostscript*.rpm package and gv program is in gv*.rpm package in Redhat Linux which can be located through ControlPanel | Applications | Graphics menu buttons. The gv program is much more user friendly than ghostscript. Ghostscript and gv are also available on other platforms like OS/2, Windows 95 and NT. <tscreen><verb> To read postscript document give the command - gv howto.ps To use ghostscript give - ghostscript howto.ps </verb></tscreen> You can read HTML format document using Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet explorer, Redhat Baron Web browser or any other web browsers. You can read the latex, LyX output using LyX a "X-Windows" front end to latex.  </article>