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hey,

I decided to sign up at source forge and start a script.

I want to use their CVS feature, but, i am really really confused on how to go about getting started.

I've read some of the documentation provided but i have absolutly no clue what's going on.

I downloaded a SSH (i've never used shell before?) and ToirtioseCVS (sp?) but where do i go from here or do i need something else?

I think you should create directories and create accounts for CVS. I could not find it out either.

Ok, so i got WinSCP working and logged in. I uploaded a file to the directory and well...where did it go? What is the purpose of the shell access?

I can't seem to access CVS though.

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* Protocol: Secure Shell (:ext
* Server: cvs.sourceforge.net
* Repository folder: /cvsroot/PROJECTNAME (PROJECTNAME is your project's UNIX name. NOTE: all letters will be lowercase)
* User name: Enter your SourceForge.net username (the same one you use to login to the SourceForge.net website).
* Module: Enter the name of the module you wish to work with.

That ^^^ i can't find the options anywhere in ToirtiosCVS??

I can't help you, I'm using the official unix cvs client.

blah. what linux distro are you using?

:ext:cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/PROJECTNAME should be the address or wtf.

* User name: Enter your SourceForge.net username (the same one you use to login to the SourceForge.net website).
* Module: Enter the name of the module you wish to work with.


This may help.

http://usebb.sourceforge.net/cvs/ contains the very particular information, basicly the same as on SF.net but also lists the module name and such.

By the way, I use Gentoo, but that doesn't make any difference to the CVS client.

hmm i used the path :ext:cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/PROJECTNAME but it just won't login. I checked the SF.net docs and yea, i haven't a clue what's wrong so i'm just going to leave it for now and read more up on it.

Oh as you may have read, :ext: is only for authenticated logins. See the link I posted earlier or the right part of the SF.net docs for anonymous access.

hmmm. Is there anyway that i can set up CVS on my own computer?

http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#downloading

Download the server.

hmm, i can't find one for Windows

I guess it doesn't exist for Windows. But you don't need a server yourself to use CVS.

You can get things with TortoiseCVS. If you know the pass, you can do commits as well, it's that simple, although I have switched to SVN pretty early.

Hmm, well i downloaded CVSNT (a CVS server?) I just want to use in on my own computer with the files on my own computer so 127.0.0.1 so there would be no password? How would i set that up? Would all i need is TortoiseCVS and would i need apache or anything like that (PHP, mySQL?)

Afaik, CVS works with Unix accounts, who can have access to repositories and modules. Therefore you can't just install it on Windows. Still it takes a lot of time to set up your own CVS server, create repositories, etc...

oh. So its either figure out how to use SourceForge and CVS or use none :p.

Though, do you know of any other version control programs that might run on windows and use localhost? I've tried searching for it on google and only came around Surround SCM but it costs money.

All you need it TortoiseCVS. The method described on e107faq.org should work, you just have to give the password here and then you can browse/modify the repo.

bastya_elvtars wrote

All you need it TortoiseCVS. The method described on e107faq.org should work, you just have to give the password here and then you can browse/modify the repo.

You can't modify anything without an account, CVS access rights to the project and to the right module.

And as I said, authenticated and anonymous access work completely different.

hmm i was wondering why when i said commit... wasn't changing anything on the sourceforge ViewCVS.

Dietrich, you know the comment block at the beginning of each useBB file, do you do that manually or does something automatically put that there?

I put all the comments there myself, but $Header: $ etc. is filled in by CVS.

ah, okey.

Well the ViewCVS at sourceforge updated so i guess it did work after all?

You can't change anything on CVS so...?