Friday, March 19, 2010

Changing CVS Username and Password in an Eclipse Project

I'm posting this for my future reference since I could find any reference to changing a saved CVS username and password for an already created Eclipse project.  This post has nothing to changing CVS credentials on a CVS server.  I needed to do this because I had commits to make to an open source project however the project I originally setup was using the anonymous read only access.

1. You need to set a new connection string for the CVS repository you want to access by using the CVS Repository view.

Goto the "Window" menu -> "Show View" -> "Other" -> find "CVS" section and expand -> "CVS Repositories"

2. Next setup the new connection string for your repository

Click on the mini icon of this view (a cylinder with the word "CVS" and a "+" sign) -> Add your new CVS repository

3. Associate the new repository (could be the same repository with different login credentials) with your project

Right click on the project in the "Navigator" -> select "Properties" -> in the properties tree select "CVS" -> hit the "Change Sharing..." button -> select your new repository and "OK" -> hit "Apply" back on the properties page

I hope this helps somebody in the future.

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15 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 14, 2011 at 11:03 AM

    It helped me! Thanks for making this post!

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  2. AnonymousAugust 16, 2011 at 12:35 AM

    thanks, i was wasting my time finding how to change the cvs account!!

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  3. AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 at 7:00 PM

    Thanks it helped me.I needed this and first link i picked from google result is this perfect.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 11:39 PM

    Thanks a lot for this :D

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  5. AnonymousNovember 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM

    Thanks from me as well. I might add, that after you've reassigned any projects to the new connection you can then discard (aka. delete) the old location if it's no longer needed. You can't have any projects pointed at the old location to delete it, though.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2012 at 12:44 PM

    It helped, thanks

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2012 at 4:05 AM

    Indeed! Thank you.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 25, 2012 at 12:44 PM

    Very Nice! Great Success!

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  9. AnonymousNovember 14, 2012 at 1:10 PM

    Thanks Guru. Saved me heck of time.

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  10. AnonymousNovember 23, 2012 at 1:04 AM

    It helped a lot.. Thanks!! very good explanation.. Thanks again!!!!

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  11. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2013 at 11:30 PM

    Big help thanks

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  12. jamesMarch 3, 2014 at 5:41 PM

    Great help - thanks mate

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  13. Shahid AkhtarAugust 4, 2014 at 10:45 PM

    It helped me. Thanks a lot.

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  14. MoedOctober 29, 2014 at 3:56 PM

    Very helpful !!!
    Thanks for the post :)

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  15. 大師July 2, 2020 at 6:03 PM

    i am maintaining some very old repositories that hosting in CVS, it is real helpful, thx a lot.

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