Category Archives: cvs

Subversion red book keyword substitution

February 9, 2008 – 10:48 am

Subversion keywords let you do the sort of things that you’d do in CVS to show the version information in the file you were updating.
SVN allows keyword substitution exaclty the same way as CVS, there is one catch; you must go and set the svn:keywords property to the keywords you want to allow, here […]

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PHP questionnaire application part 2

December 4, 2007 – 8:17 pm

It was quite a busy day yesterday… obviously I didn’t get this completed, or I’d have a link here and would be inviting you all to come along and fill it in! But I think I’ve made some good progress…
The basic idea I’m building on, is I’ll have a questionnaire file and an administrative function […]

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Idea 10 : Project management/Source control/Defect management hosting

November 26, 2007 – 12:20 am

I’m currently looking into getting our project management infrastructure out there to the next level. And there are plenty of providers filling this niche already. Unfortunately none seem to quite provide us with the service we are looking for, at the right price (nothing - or next to it).
This leaves us to consider purchasing some […]

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cvs move location

June 27, 2007 – 1:39 am

Due to continued disk errors from I have relocated the CVS repository.
In you source dir at the command prompt run the following command (once user code has been changed) and this will repoint your cvs to the new repository.
FOR /R . %a IN (Root) DO if exist %a echo :pserver:<user>@<server name>:/svr/cvs > %a
Please ask me […]

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CVS tags

June 13, 2007 – 3:04 am

There are several good elements that can be inserted into text documents and loaded into CVS (presume similar is true for subversion). A good one that combines the properties is $Id$. I like loading it into the top of source code and properties files so there is no confusion about the version of the code […]

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