TortoiseCVS User's Guide
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TortoiseCVS User's Guide
Version 1.9.14
Ben
Campbell
Martin
Crawford
Hartmut
Honisch
Francis
Irving
Torsten
Martinsen
Ian
Dees
Copyright © 2001 - 2006 TortoiseCVS
Table of Contents
1. Getting Started
What is
CVS
?
What is TortoiseCVS?
Where to Begin?
Errors and Omissions in this Manual
2. Basic Usage of TortoiseCVS
Sandboxes
Checking out a Module
Windows Explorer and TortoiseCVS
Total Commander and TortoiseCVS
Updating your Sandbox
Committing your Changes to the Repository
Resolving Conflicts
Adding Files and Directories to the Repository
3. Advanced Usage of TortoiseCVS
Creating a New Repository or Module
Watch, Edit and Unedit
Tagging and Labeling
Reverting to an Older Version of a File
Renaming or Moving a File
Branching And Merging
Creating a Branch
Selecting a Branch to Work On
Merging from a Branch
Going Back to the Head Branch
Binary and Unicode Detection
File Revision History
History Dialog
Revision Graph Dialog
Web Log
Making a Patch File
4. Customizing TortoiseCVS
Overlay Icons
Selecting a Different Set of Overlay Icons
Changing how the Overlay Icons Work
5. Command Reference for TortoiseCVS
Installing TortoiseCVS
Obtaining a Working Copy: CVS Checkout...
Getting Other People's Changes: CVS Update
CVS Update Special...
Making Your Changes Available to Others: CVS Commit...
Adding New Files: CVS Add and CVS Add Contents...
Discarding Obsolete Files: CVS Remove
Renaming or Moving Files: CVS Rename
Finding Out What Has Changed: CVS Diff...
Making a Snapshot: CVS Tag...
Lines of Development: CVS Branch...
CVS Merge...
CVS Make New Module
Watching And Locking
Finding Out Who to Blame: CVS Annotate
Showing More Information: CVS Explorer Columns
Keyboard Shortcuts
How Web Log Autodetects the Server URL
How 'Fetch list...' finds the list of modules
6. Dialog Reference for TortoiseCVS
Add Dialog
Checkout Dialog
Update Special Dialog
Commit Dialog
Branch Dialog
Make New Module Dialog
Progress Dialog
Tag Dialog
Preferences Dialog
Merge Dialog
History Dialog
Revision Graph Dialog
Rename Dialog
About Dialog
7. Articles, Tips and Tricks
Using TortoiseCVS with SourceForge
How CVS Differs from
Microsoft Visual Source Safe
™
Creating new icons for TortoiseCVS
Creating a new locale (translation) for TortoiseCVS
Overview
Gettext Documentation
How to start
Using PuTTY sessions
Using Pageant to avoid having to enter the SSH password every time
How TortoiseCVS manages line endings
Using other CVS clients
8. Resources and Credits
List of Figures
2.1.
Checkout Dialog
2.2.
TortoiseCVS and Windows Explorer
2.3.
Updating Files and Folders
2.4.
Commit Dialog
2.5.
Resolve Conflicts Dialog
2.6.
Add Dialog
2.7.
Add Contents Dialog
3.1.
Make New Module Dialog
3.2.
Make New Repository Question
3.3.
Tag Dialog
3.4.
Branch Dialog
3.5.
Update Special Dialog
3.6.
Merge Dialog
3.7.
History Dialog
3.8.
Revision Graph Dialog
3.9.
Web Log Configuration Dialog
3.10.
Make Patch Dialog
5.1.
Annotate Dialog
5.2.
Find Dialog
5.3.
Choosing which columns to display
6.1.
Add Dialog
6.2.
Checkout Dialog - Module Tab
6.3.
Checkout Dialog - Revision Tab
6.4.
Checkout Dialog - Options Tab
6.5.
Update Special Dialog
6.6.
Commit Dialog
6.7.
Branch Dialog
6.8.
Make new module Dialog - Module Tab
6.9.
Make new module Dialog - Options Tab
6.10.
Progress Dialog
6.11.
Tag Dialog
6.12.
Preferences Dialog - Main Tab
6.13.
Preferences Dialog - Iconset Chooser
6.14.
Preferences Dialog - Policy Tab
6.15.
Preferences Dialog - Edit Tab
6.16.
Preferences Dialog - Tools Tab
6.17.
Preferences Dialog - Advanced Tab
6.18.
Preferences Dialog - Appearance Tab
6.19.
Preferences Dialog - Cache Tab
6.20.
Preferences Dialog - Ignored Files Tab
6.21.
Merge Dialog
6.22.
History Dialog
6.23.
Revision Graph Dialog
6.24.
Rename Dialog
6.25.
About Dialog
List of Tables
2.1.
Icon Overlays
2.2.
Right-Click Context