FlexDeploy - CVS Plugin Guide

FlexDeploy CVS plugin makes it easy to interact with source code stored in CVS SCM. FlexDeploy allows users to configure CVS connection details to be shared by various projects and other configurations at project level which allows for easy export, tag operations during build workflow execution.

  • Create SCM Instance for CVS and define URL, User and Password information. You can also validate connection when creating SCM Instance for CVS.

  • At project level, select CVS as SCM Type and provide details like Module, Branch, Tag etc. which are defined as Groovy scripts.

There is no need to install a CVS client. The plugin uses a Java based API to interact with CVS Repository.  

Supported Versions

  • 7.1.2  

Key Features

  • No installation necessary.

  • Executes commands using embedded Java API.

  • Supports pserver protocol.

Integration Instance Properties

FlexDeploy supports creation of SCM instances, and the following properties will be configured for each CVS Instance. These properties are available to all operations.

Property Name

Property Code

Required

Description

Property Name

Property Code

Required

Description

CVS URL

FDCVS_URL

Yes

Base URL to the CVS repository.

CVS User

FDCVS_USER

Yes

The username for connecting to CVS Repository. Username must have read write access, if you plan to perform tag operations.

CVS Password

FDCVS_PASSWORD

Yes

The password for the FDCVS_USER.

Plugin Operations

The following macros are not currently supported in the footer:
  • style