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CVS

Common VCS Root properties are described here.

This page contains descriptions of CVS-specific fields and options available when setting up a VCS root. Depending on the selected access method, the page shows different fields that help you to easily define the CVS settings:

CVS Root

Option

Description

Module name

Specify the name of the module managed by CVS.

CVS Root

Use these fields to select the access method, point to the user name, CVS server host and repository. For example: ':pserver:user@host.name.org:/repository/path'. For a local connection only the path to the CVS repository should be used. TeamCity supports the following connection methods (described below):

Checkout Options

Option

Description

  • Checkout HEAD revision

  • Checkout from branch

  • Checkout by Tag

Define the way CVS will fill in and update the working directory

Quiet period

Since there are no atomic commits in CVS, using this setting you can instruct TeamCity not to take (detect) a change until the specified period of time passed since the previous change was detected. It helps avoid situations when one commit is shown as two different changes in the TeamCity web UI.

PServer Protocol Settings

Option

Description

CVS Password

Click this radio button if you want to access the CVS repository by entering a password.

Password File Path

Click this radio button to specify the path to the .cvspass file.

Connection Timeout

Specify the connection timeout.

Ext Protocol Settings

Option

Description

Path to external rsh

Specify the path to the rsh program used to connect to the repository.

Path to private key file

Specify the path to the file that contains user authentication information.

Additional parameters

Enter any required rsh parameters that will be passed to the program. Multiple parameters are separated by spaces.

SSH Protocol Settings (internal implementation)

Option

Description

SSH version

Select a supported version of SSH.

SSH port

Specify SSH port number.

SSH Password

Click this radio button if you want to authenticate via an SSH password.

Private Key

Click this radio button to use private key authentication. In this case specify the path to the private key file.

SSH Proxy Settings

See proxy options below..

Local CVS Settings

Option

Description

Path to the CVS Client

Specify the path to the local CVS client.

Server Command

Type the server command. The server command is the command which makes the CVS client to work in server mode. Default value is 'server'

Proxy Settings

Option

Description

Use proxy

Check this option if you want to use a proxy, and select the desired protocol from the drop-down list.

Proxy Host

Specify the name of the proxy.

Proxy Port

Specify the port number.

Login

Specify the login.

Password

Specify the password.

Advanced Options

Option

Description

Use GZIP compression

Check this option to apply gzip compression to the data passed between the CVS server and the CVS client.

Send all environment variables to the CVS server

Check this option to send environment variables to the server for compatibility with certain servers.

History Command Supported

Check this option to use the history file on the server to search for newly committed changes. Enable this option to improve the CVS support performance. By default, the option is not checked because not every CVS server supports keeping a history log file.

Last modified: 20 April 2023