Comments on: Setting up a CVS server on Mac OSX in 4 steps and 4 minutes

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:00:51 +0000

Thanks for posting this! It worked like a charm. I set up the CVS on my development mac and just used “localhost” as the host in the Eclipse CVS Repository setup wizard. BTW, step 4 WAS necessary for me unlike one of the commentors above.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:52:33 +0000

Great! It’s really that easy. Unfortunately, your entry isn’t top of the list, if you google for “setup cvs eclipse mac os x”, so I lost almost two hours with other tips, that didn’t work.

Thank you!

Stefan

By: chuck

chuck — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:38:40 +0000

Hey Great Tip! Thanks.

FYI, I had a bit of a problem getting Eclipse to connect to the server. After experimenting (also known as “clicking around”) I discovered that setting my connection type to extssh worked for me. (right click the repository in eclipse, choose properties, select extssh).

–chuck

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:35:56 +0000

Works – and is as easy as you wrote. Thanks a lot!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:28:02 +0000

I followed all of the instructions but I can’t seem to be able to connect.

I’m on a LAN that uses a Time Machine as a router. Most of the time I’m directly plugged in. The server I’m setting up to host SVN is a G5 Tower dual 2 Ghz but if I could get it to run on the Time Machine, that would be even better.

I’ll start with getting it to work on the G5. I followed all the steps in the documentation that Apple put on their developer website as well as verified the steps with this article but I can’t connect. I think it has something to do with the router, so I set up port forwarding to forward 2222 to 22 (ssh). In Xcode, I put 2222 into the port box. I setup user accounts from System Preferences->Accounts and tried various logins.

I’m using DynDNS to forward a hostname to the IP that my G5 is using. I tried the hostname and the actual IP, no luck anywhere.

I configured a similar setup with web sharing to forward port 8080 on the same hostname to the same computer and that works just fine. I don’t know why the repository isn’t working.

Any help?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:17:36 +0000

THANK YOU for the instructions…. i spent 2 hours scouring the web (ie googling) (and invented a few poetic swear phrases along the way) to find instructions on how to connect eclipse with cvs on a mac os x (leopard) because i was getting connection refused errors, and found nothing that worked… until this page! and all it took was a single check of the remote login in system preferences…. cool!

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:34:54 +0000

Thanks for this! A couple of differences I found: 1) Xcode was on OS X Disc 2, not Disc 1 on my Leopard discs; and 2) Remote Login did have to be enabled, I did not find it to be optional as Etresoft noted.

By: Sven

Sven — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:43:33 +0000

Thanks!!!!

Agreeing to Frank, I spent quite a bit of time trying to set up repository on a external drive connected to my airport extreme.
Followed the instructions in your cookbook and it was done in a few minutes.

Cheers, Sven

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:31:46 +0000

Thanks a lot.
It cost me half a day of research, try&error, man pages, google etc. etc. Then I found this cookbook and voila: It’s really as simple as that

Frank

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