Thursday, July 23, 2009

Configure Eclipse to work with local cvs server

In previous article, Setup cvs server on Ubuntu, I described how to setup cvs server. In this article, I will describe how to setup Eclipse to work with the local cvs server.

OS: Ubuntu 9.04
Eclipse version: 3.5 Galileo, with CVS installed.

Firstly, open your project and switch to CVS Perspective
Click the Eclipse Menu Bar Window > Open Perspective > Other...

Select CVS Perspective Expoloring


Right click on the empty are of CVS Perspective wiindow,
select New Perspective Location

Enter the setting:
Host: localhost
Repository path: /myrepos
User: cvsuser
Password: ********
Connection Type: pserver
Use the default port


Click Finish


Switch back to java Perspective

Right click project, select Team > Share Project...


Use existing repository location:
:pserver:cvsuser@local:/myrepos
and click Next


Accept the default setting, click Next


And click Finish


Enter your comment and click Finish


Now, your Eclipse project is linked with your local CVS sserver.

2 comments:

Haribo said...

Thank you very much, using a local cvs is just amazing!

Anonymous said...

Great, thanks!

I was having problems with cvsd "no such system user" error... found the solution here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cvsd/+bug/801675