# CVS and local versioning **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Linux\ **Created:** [July 22, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/cvs-and-local-versioning/78609 "2008-07-22T19:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mark\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@Mark\_Jones](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Mark_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/cvs-and-local-versioning/78609/1 "2008-07-22T19:17:26Z")
I have been testing the local versioning concept in SPOD in conjunction with CVS and all is working extremely well apart for one small thing. I have created multiple version of a Natural program in my CVS (AIX) repository, however when I use the LV (check out & import) function to retrieve an object from the CVS Server, I always get the latest version. Is it not possible to retrieve an older version by a selection method. ---
**Author:** ![Georg\_Schmitt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/georg_schmitt/32/145_2.png) [@Georg\_Schmitt](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Georg_Schmitt)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/cvs-and-local-versioning/78609/2 "2008-07-31T16:27:24Z")
The Local Versioning Plug-In does not support to checkout a special revision of a Natural source out of a CVS repository. I am aware of it and there may be the decision to provide it in a forthcoming version. A workaround could be to perform the CVS checkout manually and do the “Import into Natural” with the Local Versioning Plug-in afterwards. The Natural source must be checked out into the workspace, defined by the local versioning plug-in. The commands to do that could look like: cd c:/programms/softwareag/Natural/workspace cvs -d :pserver:uid@cvsmachine/repos checkout -r 1.4 -d projFolder\natlib\SRC\ cvsModule/natlib/SRC/natsrc.nsp You may also have look into the file CVS\_CO\_OBJ.CMD in the ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/cvs-and-local-versioning/78609/3 "2021-04-02T14:50:40Z")