IDE Tutorials CSE 219 Fall 2005

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Table of Contents: NetBeans Eclipse Basics Tutorial NetBeans Eclipse Debugging Tutorial NetBeans Eclipse JUnit Testing Tutorial NetBeans Eclipse CVS Tutorial NetBeans Eclipse JAR Files Tutorial NetBeans Eclipse

Netbeans CVS

Support for cvs over ssh in netbeans does not seem to exist in any reasonable manner. So for now you can use the command prompt for cvs commits and updates. This tutorial will hopefully be updated (time permitting) with howto use cvs from netbeans if you have a local repository.

UPDATE!!!

Mark Furmanik was kind enough to figure out how to use cvs with netbeans 4 and write a tutorial about it. It involves a few steps but he put the tutorial up at http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/mfurmani/NetbeansCVS/index.html and you can look over it if you like.

	Back to the old School
Since we are going to use cvs by hand the first step is to log into the server with your cvs repository. In our case this is ug.cs.sunysb.edu. Connect to this through ssh. Type bash to start the bash shell. This will make your life easier.

	Setting up our repository
We now have to create our repository. If you already have one then you can skip the mkdir part and fill in the rest of the steps with your directory. cvs will look at the environment variable CVSROOT to find where the repository is. so follow the steps in the image filling in the directory you chose as your cvs root in plave of my directories. If you do not want to set the CVSROOT variable every time you do this you can open the .bashrc file in your home directory with a text exitor and place the lines under mkdir into tht file excluding the echo. This will automatically set the variable for you every time you log in.

	Initializing the repository
This step tells cvs to put all the important files that are needed to use a cvs repository into our cvsroot. NOTE!!!! only do this step once. If you do it again you will destroy your repository with no hope of getting it back.

	Enter our sourcecode
Now we want to navigate to the folder where our source is contained that we wish to put into cvs. This can be any directory. However be careful not to try to import a directory that already had CVS data directories in it

	Importing the module
Now that we are in the directory we want to import our source. to do this we use the command cvs import. The command in the image has several required fields. The -m option tells cvs to use this message for the import while cse310hw1 is the name of the module/directory in our repository he code will be imported into. the next 2 variables are tags to mark the initial import these can be anything you want but must be different.

	The Working Directory
The idea of cvs is that we can keep a seperate copy of the code to work on and then commit our changes when we are done. This directory is called the working directory. Lets create a working directory in our home directory as shown in the image and then cd into the directory.

	Checkout: Express lane
At this point we want to check out our source code that we put into the repository. To do this we use the cvs checkout command. checkout your code by using the command shown in the image with cse310hw1 being replaced by the name of your module. Once you have made changes to your code you can commit them back into the repository with the cvs commit command. If you want you can specify the message for the commit the same way you did for the import. If you think your sources are out of date in your directory you can use cvs update to grab the latest versions.

	Questions Comments Complains?
If you have any questions or a way to make the tutorials better please speak with me or email me at dquigley at ic dot sunysb dot edu