CERN Central CVS Service

This is the web page of the CERN Central CVS Service - a CVS service provided, maintained by IT Department. Please note that the CVS service is now in maintenance mode and no new projects can be created. The recommended version control system is Subversion, see http://svn.web.cern.ch/svn.

• Introduction to the CERN Central CVS Service
• HOW TO - request a project, administrate it, access CVS servers etc.
• Links to CVS documentation, presentations etc.
• CERN Central Subversion Service; User documentation, request a project, etc.

CVS Librarians: Please update your CVS project migration status.

Projects hosted: 72
Users with write access (developers): 1

Statistics of CVS usage per project (available for librarians only - details).

Last month statistics (2012.01); 40895 commits, 31012 modified files by 589 users in 21 active projects (more statistics).

Web interfaces to projects hosted in the service:

• CVSWeb
• ViewCVS

Please note that some projects are not visible outside CERN, or not visible at all - depending on librarian's decision (details)

Please note that the CVS Service for LCG (LCGCVS) provided by the old IT/DES/SIS section has been closed.

CVS Service in the Service Level Status - showing availability statistics of CVS.

News:

The CERN LCGCVS service was closed down in the first half of 2011. Most users have converted their repositories to SVN and the remaining ones have been moved as a temporary measure to the old CVS service on AFS.
April 2011

CERN SVN service goes from being a pilot project to become a Production Service !!. Creation of new CVS repositories is discontinued and users are encouraged to request creation of SVN repositories instead. All librarians are asked to migrate their CVS repositories to SVN before the end of 2009. As soon as this migration campaign has finished, the central CVS service will be frozen, allowing only read-only access to old CVS repositories. Librarians encountering problems with their CVS project migration should contact SVN Support team as soon as possible.
(January 28th, 2009)

Stoppage of kserver (Kerberos IV) access method scheduled for 30th january 2009. SSH and Kerberos V (gserver) are the supported access methods. A method to convert your CVS sandox is decribed at Moving out of kserver access method
(December 16th, 2008)

Upgrade of ViewCVS -> Now using ViewVC 1.0.4
You have probably realised that ViewCVS has been upgraded in the Central CVS service. This new version of ViewCVS has a new name (ViewVC).
Central CVS Service runs now ViewVC version 1.0.4. This upgraded had to be performed immediately since this new version fixes some security holes that were present in ViewCVS 0.9.2.
(August 2nd, 2007)

We have just created a 300th repository! See the complete list of all repositories.
(April 11th, 2008)

We have just created a 200th repository! See the complete list of all repositories.
(October 22nd, 2006)

We have just created a 100th repository! See the complete list of all repositories.
(March 18th, 2005)

Statistics of CVS usage are available for librarians! More details here.
(November 19th, 2004)

The CVS Service team is primarily composed of Manuel Guijarro and Michel Manent from IT/DES/SIS.

Please send all comments and inquiries to CVS.Support@cern.ch

Technical documentation and administrators' tools (CVS team only).