tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75300867446523798962011-12-15T20:18:47.427-08:00Updates in the development of the project cvsrootswitchTushar Joshihttps://profiles.google.com/109357152134042090360noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530086744652379896.post-47712922066974214202008-10-30T15:52:00.000-07:002008-10-30T16:25:28.693-07:00I was trying not to reinvent the wheel, so checked on internet if there is any tool which can provide me a command to switch the root of <a href="http://ximbiot.com/cvs/">CVS</a> folders from one server to another server.  This is quick in SVN and even <a href="http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/">TortoiseSVN</a> supports that.<div><br /></div><div>I tried <a href="http://www.tortoisecvs.org/">TortoiseCVS</a> first.  My problem was that my code was checked out through <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse </a>and Eclipse maintains a custom protocol <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/CVS_FAQ#What_is_the_difference_between_ext_and_extssh.3F">extssh</a> for CVS over SSH.  TortoiseCVS refused to use this protocol and I learnt that now I have to search something else.</div><div><br /></div><div>After analysing the Root file structure I found it pretty simple to change but the only issues was the Root files must be changed in all the subfolders recursively.  I was working on a Java project so obviously I wrote a program in Java to iterate recursively on the folder and change the Root files and my got my solution.</div><div><br /></div><div>As this type of solution was not found on internet easily through search, I thought of publishing the solution on the internet so some other user may find it useful some day.  This way I started thinking about cvsrootswitch.  </div><div><br /></div><div>Now I have added enough GUI to the project so any user can use it easily.</div><div><br /></div><div>with regards</div><div><a href="http://www.tusharvjoshi.com/">Tushar Joshi, Nagpur</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7530086744652379896-4771292206697421420?l=cvsrootswitch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tushar Joshihttps://profiles.google.com/109357152134042090360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530086744652379896.post-1672274196289375402008-10-26T05:51:00.000-07:002008-10-26T05:53:31.221-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fcQoj48LYPE/SQRoBYlpCqI/AAAAAAAABBQ/nt4Ub9Zlerg/s1600-h/cvsrootswitch-o.1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fcQoj48LYPE/SQRoBYlpCqI/AAAAAAAABBQ/nt4Ub9Zlerg/s400/cvsrootswitch-o.1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261444637665069730" /></a>The first version of cvsrootswitch is released.<div><br /></div><div>The aim is to make the version available in working form as soon as possible.  I am using this version to shift CVS local folders for my use successfully.</div><div><br /></div><div>with regards</div><div>Tushar</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7530086744652379896-167227419628937540?l=cvsrootswitch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tushar Joshihttps://profiles.google.com/109357152134042090360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530086744652379896.post-71631421950227692652008-10-26T05:44:00.000-07:002008-10-26T05:51:13.271-07:00Necessity is Mother of Invention, Indeed!<div><br /></div><div>I was having a local sandbox checked out from CVS server.  There were two ways to use that server the internal LAN IP and external exposed IP.  While working from work place I checked out the files from the internal IP address.  </div><div><br /></div><div>To work from home I needed to shift the CVS folders to point to the external IP address of the same server.  I started searching for tools to do the same.  in Subversion I had used a command to do this which is directly available in the software.  For CVS this type of command was not available.</div><div><br /></div><div>My search lead me to many entries pointing towards ways to do this through shell scripts.  I was on Windows XP box and the perl scripts and all the working programs out there were not going to work for me.</div><div><br /></div><div>This made me study the way CVS Root entries are created and to find a way to shift those entries to new server. Thus started cvsrootswitch project.</div><div><br /></div><div>with regards</div><div>Tushar Joshi, Nagpur</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7530086744652379896-7163142195022769265?l=cvsrootswitch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tushar Joshihttps://profiles.google.com/109357152134042090360noreply@blogger.com0