Ant and CVS

[M Perfickme]

Hi,

Would some one please help, how do I checkout files from cvs using ant?

Would you please give me step-by-step help to create such a task.

Thank you in advance

N

[Ulf Dittmer]

You don't need to create a new Ant task - Ant has a CVS task built in. It's described in the manual: http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html.

[M Perfickme]

Sorry my mistake. Learn something new every day...

However, still need help.

Am doing:
<target name="checkOut" >
<cvs cvsroot=":blah:blah@blah:blah/blah"
command="checkout"
passfile="C:\...\.cvspass"
dest="c:\..."/>
</target>

And am getting back:
checkout error=2

Thank you in advance

N

[Ulf Dittmer]

Sorry, can't help you there, because I've never used it.

[Robb Sherwin]

However, still need help.

Am doing:
<target name="checkOut" >
<cvs cvsroot=":blah:blah@blah:blah/blah"
command="checkout"
passfile="C:\...\.cvspass"
dest="c:\..."/>
</target>

And am getting back:
checkout error=2

I'm getting this in Eclipse as well.

Additionally, when I try to run the exact same build.xml file in a Cygwin window I get an authorization failed error. The exact text is:

authorization failed: server cvs.mycompany.com rejected access to /cvs for user rsherwin


... Has anyone been able to successfully checkout or even perform a diff on code in CVS from the latest version of Ant? I mean, this is the code I'm using in my build.xml file and if it's wrong I'm at a loss to guess what it could be:

<target name="touch_cvs">
<cvspass cvsroot=":pserver:[e-mail]:/cvs"
password="mypassword" />
<cvs command="diff" dest="${cvs.dir}/team-dev" output="patch.txt" />
  

[Carol Enderlin]

from ant manual on cvs task

Found by googling "error=2 ant cvs"

Important: This task needs "cvs" on the path. If it isn't, you will get an error (such as error 2 on windows). If <cvs> doesn't work, try to execute cvs.exe from the command line in the target directory in which you are working.

I don't have access to cvs tonight and I usually do cvs diff on the command line or use the compare feature in eclipse, so I don't have any advice on that issue beyond what the cvs task documentation describes.
[ July 20, 2005: Message edited by: Carol Enderlin ]

[Robb Sherwin]

Thanks, Carol. I'll check that out in order to get Eclipse integrated correctly.

As an aside, I went into Cygwin to use Ant and CVS that way and eventually learned that the .cvspass file I was using had a newline at the end of it. That screwed up the password descrambling. Once I eliminated it I no longer got any 'authorization failed' messages.