# Questions on using Capistrano with CVS **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 16, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-on-using-capistrano-with-cvs/82589 "2006-03-16T16:52:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_Heijmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@Jeroen\_Heijmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_Heijmans)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-on-using-capistrano-with-cvs/82589/1 "2006-03-16T16:52:40Z")
Today I managed to deploy my application using Capistrano, using CVS as the SCM, but I had to use some workarounds I’m not quite happy about. Maybe I just did something wrong, maybe these are missing features/bugs in Capistrano: 1. I used Capistrano earlier with SVN, and there it re-used the password for the remote server for doing the checkout. However, CVS kept complaining the access was attempted with an “empty password”, apparently not re-using the password. In the end, I set up my CVS-account with an empty password, and it worked, but I would really prefer having an account with password. 2. The CVS checkout is done with -D and a revision date. However, this date is last revision date of my application, and therefore CVS doesn’t actually checkout any files. I worked around this by removing this argument from the code, but I have the feeling this is not right. Any suggestions to what I may be doing wrong are appreciated. Thanks, Jeroen Heijmans ---
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_Heijmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@Jeroen\_Heijmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_Heijmans)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-on-using-capistrano-with-cvs/82589/2 "2006-03-16T17:03:27Z")
Jeroen, For the record, I don’t use CVS and so the CVS module (being written by me) is almost certainly not right. I would appreciate any patches to make it work as smoothly as the SVN module. - Jamis ---
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_Heijmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@Jeroen\_Heijmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_Heijmans)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-on-using-capistrano-with-cvs/82589/3 "2006-03-16T17:19:05Z")
Never used Capistrano… From what I understand about your problem it looks like one I already encountered (with Maven for example). As far as i can remember, CVS can store usernames/passwords in a crypted file on your computer. If you do so, CVS don’t ask for a password anymore if it can read it from this file. I haven’t used it for a long time but i think this file is named “.cvspass” and you can generate it with a “cvs login” command. This file is usually in your HOME directory. HTH. Stéphane Thibaudeau. ---
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_Heijmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@Jeroen\_Heijmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeroen_Heijmans)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/questions-on-using-capistrano-with-cvs/82589/4 "2006-03-16T19:28:08Z")
Stéphane: > I haven’t used it for a long time but i think this file is named > “.cvspass” and you can generate it with a “cvs login” command. This file > is usually in your HOME directory. You are right, this method also works (in fact I tried it already before posting), but a (minor) disadvantage is that you’ll have to use cvs login on the target machien before being able to deploy. It might be possible to do this using Capistrano, of course. Jamis: > For the record, I don’t use CVS and so the CVS module (being written > by me) is almost certainly not right. I would appreciate any patches > to make it work as smoothly as the SVN module. Yes, I understood as much when searching the web for answers. I’ll certainly let you know if I find better ways to use CVS from Capistrano.