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What is CVS

CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a tool that we use to manage changes within hipergate's source code tree. CVS provides the means to store not only the current version of a piece of source code, but a record of all changes (and who made those changes) that have occurred to that source code. Use of CVS is particularly common on projects with multiple developers (as hipergate), since CVS ensures changes made by one developer are not accidentally removed when another developer posts their changes to the source tree. All source is stored on SourceForge's Concurrent Versions System.

hipergate repository

hipergate is divided in three diferent modules:

  java    Core source code
  web     JSP front-end
  locale  front-end quick translation tool

Statistics

StatCVS provides some statistics on the source code stored on a CVS repository. There's a report for each module:

• java
• web

Anonymous CVS access

Web-based

viewCVS can browse directories, change logs, and revisions of files on a CVS repository.

Acceso mediante cliente CVS

In order to access a CVS repository, you must install a special piece of software called a CVS client; CVS clients are available for most any operating system. SourceForge has a very interesting document about CVS clients.

This is an example to login and retrive a module using the UNIX cvs command:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/hipergate login 
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/hipergate co module