Microstation Tips and Tricks: Microstation Maintenance in Multi-user CAD Environments

Concurrent Version System (CVS)is a version control system which keeps track of all work and changes in a set of files. It is an open standard used by software development teams for Source Configuration Management (SCM) and allows a geographically dislocated development team to collaborate. For this reason particularly, it is popular among the open-source community.

For Microstation Administration, its significance stems from its role in Select Server Deployment.
If alterations and additions need to be made to the Microstation snapshot held in the repository, a basic understanding of CVS will be required.

Resources

www.nongnu.org/cvs/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cvs

To use CVS you need to launch the command prompt (start > all programs > accessories > command prompt) and navigate to the location of the SSD resources which should include cvs.exe.

Usage

cvs [cvs-options] command [command-options-and-arguments]

Commands

add	add a new file / directory to the repository
commit	check files into the repository
history	show repository access history
init	creates a CVS repository if it doesn't exist
remove	remove an entry from thge repository
update	bring work tree in sync with the repository

CVS options

-H	displays usage information for command
-Q	causes CVS to be really quiet
-q	causes CVS to be somewhat quiet
-r	make checked out files read-only
-w	make checked out files read-write (default)
-l	turn history logging off
-n	do not execute anything that will change the disk
-t	show trace of program execution
-v	cvs version and copyright
-T	tmpdir - use 'tmpdir' for temporary files
-e	editor. Use editor for editing log information
-d	cvr_root overrides $cvsroot as the root of the cvs tree
-f	do not use the ~/.cvsrc file
-z	use compression level '' for net traffic
-s	var=val cvs user variable
-i	make cvs directories invisible

If you have problems accessing a network drive in command prompt:

Right-click on 'My Computer' desktop icon.
Select Map Network Drive.
The next available drive letter should be shown as being ready avaliable by 'Drive'
Browse to the required location.
De-select 'Reconnect on Startup'
In command prompt, use the drive letter.

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