June 3 2007

Setting up CVS on Dreamhost

Edit: I just started using subversion and like it way better — CVS has been retired for now. This is partially because SVN works from my office and CVS doesn’t

This is just a simple way to setup CVS on your dreamhost account. My current setup is that I do most of my development on my laptop (OSX) and need to share the files with my desktop (debian) and host. I set it up so that I can switch between using my local repository (which is an external HDD) and my remote repository (dreamhost) depending on what I need and what I’m storing. I’m just freehanding this, so if there are any problems I appologize — they should be minor anyhow.

On dreamhost:

cd $HOME
mkdir cvsroot
chmod 770 cvsroot
nano .bashrc
add: “export CVSROOT=/home/(username)/cvsroot”
^X to save (hit “y”)
cvs init
chmod 700 cvsroot/CVSROOT

On Local Machine:

cd $HOME
sudo mkdir /var/cvsroot
sudo chown user:group /var/cvsroot
chmod 770 /var/cvsroot
nano .bashrc
add: “export CVS_LOCAL=/var/cvsroot”
add: “export CVS_REMOTE=:ext:(remote_username)@(remote_server.tld):/home/(username)/cvsroot”
add: “use_local_cvs(){ CVSROOT=$CVS_LOCAL }”
add: “use_remove_cvs(){ CVSROOT=$CVS_REMOTE }”
^X to save
restart terminal
cvs init
chmod 700 /var/cvsroot/CVSROOT

Using

To store a project locally I just goto my project folder and type “cvs import (project_name) (user) (tag)”. This will then push all my project files to my external HDD.

If I want to put up a website or edit my libraries I first run “use_remote_cvs” to set the CVSROOT to my remote server, then run “cvs import (project_name) (user) (tag)”.

Thats it. When it prompts for a user password, type it in and hopefully all went well.