Schreiber, Mark wrote: > Hi - > > For the less CVS literate amongst us (or just me) how can I set up CVS > to capture the 1.2 branch and the biojava-live branch (and any other > branch for that matter). > > Actually could someone summarise what brances there are and what each > one could be used for? >
Mark- I just finished re-doing and upgrading our anonymous and web-based CVS server. Point your browser to http://cvs.open-bio.org or http://cvs.biojava.org/ The updated web interface is pretty slick (still some bugs and broken internal links sometimes as you get deep into the site...) and allows you to easily browse the different branches, visualize the diffs between multiple files and even download custom-generated tarballs. If you are looking at maintaining local copies of the latest source code then you can do this pretty easily via anonymous cvs as long as there are no firewall or proxy issues blocking things. Just follow the example commands that are online at http://cvs.open-bio.org/. If things are unclear then please give me your feedback so I can incorporate changes that will help future users. Branches can be accessed via use of the "-r" tag during your CVS checkout operation. You'll have to get advice from the hardcore biojava folks (or browse webcvs) to figure out the specific branch names you are interested in (looks like there is a release tag called "release-1_2-branch" that would work). You do not need to use "-r" to get biojava-live as it will just default to the head branch. Example use of revision tags with anonymous cvs: $prompt> cvs :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/repository/biojava login (when prompted your password will be 'cvs') $prompt> cvs :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/repository/biojava checkout -r "release-1_2-branch" biojava-live You may also want to use the "-d" switch to put the checked out code into a directory that reflects that you have checked out a branch rather than the biojava-live head. A repeat of the above command with this switch would be this: $prompt> cvs :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/repository/biojava checkout -r "release-1_2-branch" -d "./biojava-1.2" biojava-live After you do the checkout operation you should be able to go into that directory and just issue the "cvs update" command in the future. If you are a biojava developer (with an account on the server) and you want to maintain a writable version of the repository that you can commit changes to then drop me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] an email and we'll help you get sorted offline. Regards, Chris -- Chris Dagdigian, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Life Science IT & Research Computing Freelancer Office: 617-666-6454, Mobile: 617-877-5498, Fax: 425-699-0193 PGP KeyID: 83D4310E Yahoo IM: craffi _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
