From: Justin MacCarthy (macarthy at domain iol.ie)
Date: Thu 05 Sep 2002 - 16:52:34 IST
This is the best step by step guide to setting up cvs on Redhat..
http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0205_yu/yu.html?open
&l=456,t=gr
It is for a particular IBM ide, but the setup and testing of the server is
the same for any CVS client
Both The "Using Linux" and "Linux in a nutshell" book by Oreilly have
sections on cvs /rcs , and both books are a must buy for any linux newbie
Justin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at domain linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at domain linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> Michael Conry
> Sent: 05 September 2002 16:34
> To: Darragh
> Cc: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Newby to Linux looking for information on cvs
>
>
> On 0020 +0100 %{!Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 3:55:16PM +0100}, Darragh wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am very new to Linux and need some help on a utility called
> cvs. As far
> > as I'm aware its a similar protocol to FTP. I need to use it
> to download a
> > program from :pserver:anoncvs at domain subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/w3.
> I am looking
> > for information on how to use it. I'll have another look at
> the man pages
> > but I think I have to set it up before I can download anything.
> cvs is really a very different kind of thing to FTP, but the details of
> that statement are left as an exercise to the reader (won't show up my
> own ignorance that way ;-)
> The application you want is cvsclient...
> There is documentation here:
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/gnu/docs/cvs/cvsclient_toc.html
>
> You might get a quick idea of how it works from here:
> http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot.html
> where he explains how to get cvs gnuplot...
> The commands are:
>
> export
> CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at domain cvs.gnuplot.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gnuplot
> cvs login
> cvs -z3 checkout gnuplot
>
> Something similar will probably do the job for you. I'm guessing the
> following MIGHT work...
>
> export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs at domain subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/w3
> cvs login
> cvs -z3 checkout w3
>
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