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I had CVS working fine under Snow Leopard. After upgrading to Lion, I re-installed Xcode (version 4.1) but CVS doesn't seem to come with it - unless I am missing something. How do I get basic CVS commands working again?
Thanks
Mac OS X (10.7)
Apparently, 10.7 (aka Lion) no longer ships with preinstalled CVS. Now it comes with developer tools when you install XCode 4.1.
I did install XCode 4.1 (in this new way, via AppStore). CVS still not working. How can I verify that I have it installed?
My bad.
Seems like XCode 4.1 does, in fact, contain CVS - it just wasn't fully installed (the installation hanged at the end). Following the advice of some blog, I re-installed it manually (by going to the package's contents and clicking on Xcode.mpkg) and this brought back CVS.
Hope that helps people with the same problem in the future.
In any case, thanks to meraTechStuff!
If downloading a 3GB Developer Tools package of XCode seems like a lot just to get `cvs` working again after upgrading, know that you might still have it installed.
For me, adding /Developer/usr/bin to my PATH did the trick.
Adding developer to my path did the trick. Thanks!
How can I install only CVS on Lion? Is there a way for it?
I don't need all the contend of XCode 4.1 because of heavy footprint on my HDD.
I checked the Package Contents of XCode and tried VersionedDeveloperToolsSystemSupport.pkg & SourceControl.pkg. Both doesn't have CVS executables.
Anybody?
Cheers
-Walter
Isn't there a single package? Why should we be forced to install the huge xcode package or some strange porting?
There is a workaround how to get cvs without all unneeded stuff from xcode. I used it and I have what I need.
1. Install Xcode. Doesn't matter which version. You don't need to download 4.1 form App Store. You can use Xcode package from Snow Leopard instalation disk. It is much smaller than 4.1.
2. Copy cvs file to one of our folder in including path (in. ex. /usr/bin):
bash$ sudo cp /Developer/usr/bin/cvs /usr/bin
3. Remove Xcode:
bash$ sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
After all we can use cvs from the command line as usual and many gigabytes free. Of course setting CVSROOT env variable will be very helpful, but I'm sure everyone knows how to use cvs.
Looks like the new path as of XCode 4.3 is /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin
After reading a dozen posts about this issue, I found that the latest version of Command Line Tools that is available through Xcode 5 (with a release date of Sep 18, 2013) does not include CVS. I had to go all the way back to the Command Line Tools from Xcode 4.3 (release date of Aug 7, 2012) in order to get the cvs executable. It is CVS 1.11.23 (latest available) and the executable is installed into /usr/bin/cvs by the Command Line Tools installer. I found it at https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=for%20Xcode%20-#
Ironically I needed this so I can use Git locally and have it automatically do a CVS export when I push commits to the Git repository (develop or master branch) since my company is still using CVS (something I'm hoping to change soon).
Javamate,
This year, had this issue again: I ended up simply installing it from scratch using MacPorts. It works!
Thanks, brisavion. I installed CVS from MacPorts (gives the latest stable version 1.11.23) and then installed the latest Xcode Command Line Tools (Sep 18, 2013) to get a more recent Git (1.8.3.4) among other commands.
How do I get CVS to work under Lion?
