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Version Control CVS for Windows. CVS Suite 2009R2 x32 including Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server; CVS. On site installation and. All About CVS or the Install Guide before proceeding. Also see the Quick Configuration. Upgrading CVS Suite Server on Windows. Ensure windows.

We are upgrading our CVS server from an old Windows 2003 box with an ANCIENT CVS server installed on it, to a shiny new server with Windows 2008 R2. Any recommendations / shared experiences with a particular CVS server software to use? Any special tweaks to take into consideration?

WE DO NOT HAVE THE OPTION OF MOVING TO ANOTHER SOURCE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY such as SVN or GIT at this time. I am looking for good CVS server software that would work well with Windows Server 2008 R2. UPDATE: The challenge was that there were no Windows-based CVS server solutions available. The last supported one finally dropped off of the market this year. So in conclusion, almost 1 year later, we have successfully migrated to SVN. That site has software that's older than what we have now.

So what version of CVS do you have then if it is newer than what the official site offers? Looking into the status of the project, I: Notably, the development of the Microsoft Windows version of CVS has split off into a separate project named and has been more active in extending the feature set of the system, even porting the changes back to the UNIX platform under the name CVSNT.

Given that, you should probably look into CVSNT and get the latest version of that (if you don't already have it). However, none of this really matters, because if you want to stick with with CVS (or something forked from it), you are not going to have anything nearly as 'shiny' as your server, because CVS is a legacy version control system whose developers moved on to create Subversion a long time ago. You should probably move to Subversion too (why would that not be an option actually?) – migrating from CVS to SVN is a breeze in most cases.

V1.0, May 13, 2004 Chris Pike – – Download this document in PDF format [109.4k] This document provides ‘step-by-step’ instructions for setting up a Concurrent Versions System (CVS) repository on Linux, and setting up WinCvs clients on Windows to access it over SSH (alternative access via Pserver is also briefly covered). It is designed to help get everything up and running, not as a replacement for the (from which some of this documentation was taken).

This document assumes that both the SSH and CVS servers are installed on your Linux box; if not, just install from your Linux distro CD, or download and install the latest versions: CVS info and downloads: SSH info and downloads: RPM downloads from: Contents Linux • • • • Windows • • • • • Linux Enable the services Before doing anything else, make sure that CVS and SSH are there waiting for a connection: 1) Log in as root. $ su root 2) Start CVS service, and ensure that it starts on system reboot. # service cvs start # chkconfig cvs on 3) Start SSH service, likewise. # service sshd start # chkconfig sshd on Again, if you don’t have either of these services installed, they should be available as packages with your Linux distro.