Re: newbie questions

Hi Peter,

PETER HARTGERINK wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I am a new member of a team that has not been used to using any 
> version control software. I have been trying to make a case for 
> version control and have been given permission to look at free version 
> control options which I might recommend to the team.
> We are an Oracle development shop - with the database and application 
> server both on Linux servers. However the developers are using Win2K 
> clients.  My primary interest is in maintaining versions of PL/SQL 
> packages, for which the source would be stored as text files.
>  
> There is no money in the budget for proprietary licensed version 
> control software, and since I am only "playing" for now, I used my 
> local client machine to set up my repository. This is less than ideal 
> but I was hoping it would at least allow me to do a test.
>  
> I tried downloading and using Tortoise VCS and encountered several 
> problems. It seems that after creating a repository, I cannot check 
> out individual files from within that repository, but only directories 
> that are in the root of the repository directory.  Also when I did 
> check out one of these directories into a sandbox, the individual 
> files inside the directory did not appear in the sandbox.
>  
> Because of these problems I was ready to give up on TortoiseVCS as a 
> feasible tool for our use but thought I would ask first whether 
> perhaps I am missing something.  Does anyone have any suggestions for me ?


Keep in mind that CVS does NOT work like SourceSafe etc.  I am not the
expert on either, but the big difference with CVS is that you as
developer have a full copy of a project (sandbox) you change what is
needed in a certain file, run update on that file (or files) to ensure
that your changes don't conflict with anyone elses (if they do then you
need to resolve those conflicts) and then do a commit of these files.

By the way, you can also do a commit/update on a higher level
folder/directory (just in case you forgot which files you actually
modified - obviously this doesn't happen to good developers :-P .

I found this PDF very useful:

http://mdl.ipc.pku.edu.cn/~syliu/localdoc/cvs/OSDevWithCVS_3E.pdf

See you
Werner

>  
> Thanks
>  
> Peter Hartgerink






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