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I'm Gabriele Gamba and I first of all what to say that I'm totally ignorant about programming! So, what follows is just a draft, that I hope someone more computer literated than me can correct and extend, and I will be very happy to let him the honours for this page :-)
I'm Gabriele Gamba and I first of all what to say that I'm totally ignorant about programming! So, what follows is just a draft, that I hope someone more computer literated than me can correct and extend, and I will be very happy to let him the honours for this page :-)


Information listed here comes from progref.inf file included in the XWP's sources and from http://www.xworkplace.org/cvs.html page.
Information listed here comes from progref.inf file included in the XWP's sources and from [http://www.xworkplace.org/cvs.html Ulrich's page] about setting up CVS.


Supposing that you already have a working CVS setup, do this:
Supposing that you already have a working CVS setup, do this:


1) go in your CVS root folder (e.g. e:\CVS)
* go in your CVS root folder (e.g. e:\CVS)
2) do "SET CVSROOT=:pserver:guest@www.netlabs.org:/netlabs.cvs/xworkplace"
* do "SET CVSROOT=:pserver:guest@www.netlabs.org:/netlabs.cvs/xworkplace"
3) create a subdirectory in your CVS root directory named "xworkplace (e.g. E:\cvs\xworkplace)
* create a subdirectory in your CVS root directory named "xworkplace (e.g. E:\cvs\xworkplace)
4) change to xworkplace directory and do "SET USER=guest"
* change to xworkplace directory and do "SET USER=guest"
5) from the same directory, do "CVS login"; enter "readonly" when you are prompted for password
* from the same directory, do "CVS login"; enter "readonly" when you are prompted for password
6) do "cvs checkout -r branch-1-0 ." <-- don't forget the last dot!
* do "cvs checkout -r branch-1-0 ." <-- don't forget the last dot!


This last command will retrieve the most updated stuff from CVS
This last command will retrieve the most updated stuff from CVS

Revision as of 12:21, 13 January 2006

Hi all,

I'm Gabriele Gamba and I first of all what to say that I'm totally ignorant about programming! So, what follows is just a draft, that I hope someone more computer literated than me can correct and extend, and I will be very happy to let him the honours for this page :-)

Information listed here comes from progref.inf file included in the XWP's sources and from Ulrich's page about setting up CVS.

Supposing that you already have a working CVS setup, do this:

  • go in your CVS root folder (e.g. e:\CVS)
  • do "SET CVSROOT=:pserver:guest@www.netlabs.org:/netlabs.cvs/xworkplace"
  • create a subdirectory in your CVS root directory named "xworkplace (e.g. E:\cvs\xworkplace)
  • change to xworkplace directory and do "SET USER=guest"
  • from the same directory, do "CVS login"; enter "readonly" when you are prompted for password
  • do "cvs checkout -r branch-1-0 ." <-- don't forget the last dot!

This last command will retrieve the most updated stuff from CVS