CVS for Java projects
Hello, All!
Does anybody have experience with CVS and Java?
We use Oracle JDeveloper for our java projects but it doesnt work with MS SourceSafe. I've tried JBuilder 5 but it cant work with MS SS normally. It doesnt work with long filenames. I dont know why Borland added 20 symbols restriction.
Please, share your experience in this field!
With best regards,
Andrew.
Best regards,
Andrey
# 1 Re: CVS for Java projects
I wouldn't use anything else but CVS.
One hint is to add .class to the cvsignore file. That way it won't put class files into the central repository (an
evil crime, putting such files in).
I use linux command line, where CVS excels. The rest of my department use WinCVS and appear to love it. My wife also uses it, so it can't be that bad :) WinCVS has one nice touch, which is a diagrammatic view of the lifespan of the file.
And of course, CVS/WinCVS/MacCVS/LinCVS/JavaCVS/... are all open source projects, plus as far as I'm aware, they're all distributed for free. So you can save lots on the software, and get a better product.
What else *ponder*. The Apache Ant tool has some special bindings into CVS. So it can be used to work with it, I think they're currently moving from their own bindings to using the JavaCVS library.
Hope that helps,
Bayard
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bayard at 2007-11-10 2:43:24 >
# 2 Re: CVS for Java projects
Hi,
I have extensive experience with MS VSS and would love to have it with JBuilder or Jdeveloper. On the other hand CVS is great. I am using the command line version on Solaris and it works great.It is also very simple to use. I guess that the GUI version may be better still. I wonder how many professionla guys (companies) use CVS. One thing that I know is that CompuWare hjust stopped using it.They went on to use MS VSS...
chem1 at 2007-11-10 2:44:24 >
