<ol>
<li>
Firstly, note that this FAQ is concerned only with accessing the
repositories for projects on which you are a developer. If you simply want
to check out code for a project and don't need to commit changes back, you
should use anonymous access.
</li>
<li>
Make sure you have correctly registered an SSH key for your machine with
Savannah, as explained in the FAQ entry *How do I configure my SSH access?*
</li>
<li>
Move into the local directory where you want to keep your local copy of the
CVS tree. For example:
<code>
mkdir ~/myproj-workingdir
cd ~/myproj-workingdir
</code>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Download the CVS tree structure as explained in your project's CVS page
(for example, https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs) under "Project
Member CVS Access via SSH".
</p>
<p>
Beware that username and projectname are case sensitive, unlike in the
web interface.
</p>
<p>
This will create an empty project directory, where you should start
writing your project. If there is such no empty directory, check that
you are not using the -P (prune directory) option in your command line
or ~/.cvsrc file.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
You can now start creating any files you want in your local project
directory (~/myproj-workingdir/project in the example above). Every
time you create a new file, you must add it and commit it to the
repository with:
</p>
<code>
cvs add filename
cvs ci filename
</code>
<p>
You might want to add an -m option to the commit command if you don't
want to enter an edit session to type a log message:
</p>
<code>
cvs ci -m "your log message" filename
</code>
<p>
When you add a new subdirectory, you just have to add it, not to commit
it:
</p>
<code>
cvs add dirname
</code>
<p>
When you start a new working session, you should first update your
repository to get any changes made by other developers:
</p>
<code>
cvs update
</code>
<p>
And when you modify an existing file, you should commit the changes to
the repository:
</p>
<code>
cvs ci filename
</code>
</li>
<li>
<p>
You can see the contents and history of your CVS repository via the
ViewCVS interface. There are links to this interface in your project
page.
</p>
<p>
You may want to use a frontend to CVS; we recommend tkcvs,
see <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/directory/TkCVS.html";>http://www.gnu.org/directory/TkCVS.html</a>
</p>
<p>
For more info, read
<a
href="http://www.freenix.org/unix/linux/HOWTO-vo/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html";>http://www.freenix.org/unix/linux/HOWTO-vo/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html</a>
</p>
<p>
You can also read the man page for cvs or the "Quick reference to CVS"
(http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.19/cvs_17.html (node
"Invoking CVS" in the info file)
</p>
</li>
</ol>
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