Version Control with CVS on Mac OS X

Ryan writes "Apple recently published an article on using CVS with Mac OS X. 'This article covers some of the most commonly used features of CVS, with emphasis on using CVS with static and interpreted web files (HTML, PHP, Perl, etc).'" It's a decent article, a good primer on how to get started, and it's nice that Mac OS X comes with a CVS server. Personally, I really dig maccvs for my CVS client, and there are plenty of other clients for Mac OS out there too.

Comments

Default version is 1.10

[Channing]

By default, cvs version 1.10 is installed which caused me some problems when connecting from a remote client to a repository on OSX.

It was easy to build the latest version but I hope Apple updates the default soon.

Chang

very interesting

[self assembled struc]

the article makes several references to using BASH and/or SH, yet, by default OS X doesn't include BASH (i had to compile and install it myself, and then figure out netinfo to get to be my default shell).

Re:Project Builder Integration

[tb3]

There's a decent article on CocoaDevCentral about setting up CVS and ProjectBuilder.

I managed to get it working without too much trouble. It works pretty much the way you'd expect an IDE to work with SCM.