On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:38, Ross Werner wrote: > I'm a complete novice to CVS. I remember I used it once, but the > particular site told me exactly what I needed to type in at the prompt, > set my CVSHOME or something, the command-line switches and everything, and > it downloaded a nice fat tarball for me. > > Now, unfortunately, this site gives me no help whatsoever. I want to > download all the source code but, unfortunately, I can't figure out how to > download anything except for actually finding and clicking the "download" > button for every single file. Not a fun experience. > > So, I humbly petition the UUG for help. I presume I'm supposed to know a > username/password or something, but I have nothing. All I want to do is > download all the files in a relatively easy and quick way. The site can > be found here: > > http://bunny.darktech.org/cvs/im-arabic-transliterated/
It looks like you just need to do this (found at http://bunny.darktech.org/cvs/) cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/cvs co modulename where modulename is the name of the module you want. It looks like some possible modules are further, gank, gpmu, etc. It's doing an anonymous login so when it asks for a password I believe you can just hit enter. > > Man pages, help files, not even Google searches have helped me--they all > assume I know at least /something/ about CVS (an obviously false > assumption). I know what you mean, I've read the cvs info pages a million times and I'm still a bit hazy on some things. The 10 times I read them I had very little idea what it was talking about, after just trying a lot of it out, like setting up a repository and keeping some of my code under cvs in that repository, I started to understand what they were talking about and that's when I read it the remaining 999,990 times without much new knowledge gained. If you happen to use emacs the built cvs interface is very helpful. Bryan > > > Thanks in advance, everyone, > Ross > > p.s. while I'm on the subject of CVS, this is slightly off-topic but I > remember some BYU people working on Open Source genealogy software back in > the day ... my [extended] family works on these big huge genealogy files > and needs some easy way to coordinate their work. I often contemplated > using CVS or something like it, but again I'm totally ignorant of such > things. They used to use PAF, but I think they've switched to some new > program because it was easier to coordinate. Has anybody done anything > similar or have ideas of what they could use? P.S. I would be really interested in this too. I finally took the family history sunday school class and colaboration seems to be a major thing missing from the PAF way of doing things. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
