> I took a few minutes and documented it into a HOWTO. Constructive > criticism welcome.
Glad to see such a Howto Mike. Very well written!! I went through this iteration several months back and recall it being painful. Your howto would have saved much of that pain. ;) A few suggestions: 1. I've had very poor luck with WinCVS. For Win clients, I find it MUCH easier to use stock cvs executable for windows found on the www.cvshome.org site. The stock windows version of cvs works exactly like the "real thing," which is well documented. I simply place cvs.exe in my windows directory. WinCVS is really nice for browsing a repository, but isn't as easy to use for checking out and checking in data. For the most part, people really only need to know delete CVS command: cvs co (check out), cvs update (update a local repository), cvs append (upload a file), and cvs delete (delete a file). 2. I found ssh2.exe, from www.ssh.com, to be more transparent for windows CVS than putty. You can't beat putty for a ssh terminal, but I think ssh2.exe works better for this application. I put ssh2.exe in my windows directory with cvs.exe. 3. I created a symbolic link in the root directory of my cvs server pointing to my CVSROOT. For example: cvsroot -> /home/e-smith/files/ibays/cvsroot/files/ . Makes setting up the cvsroot environment variable on the client a bit easier. 4. I'd suggest adding a little clarification to setting up environment variables on windows clients. Setting environment variable is very easy on win NT/2000/XP client: Right click on My Computer, select the Advanced Tab, and then environment variables. Win9x/ME is a different issue. AFAIK, the best way to set envir. variables on Win9x/ME is via a .bat file using the set command. Futher, I'd recommend the doc CVS for dummies, found here: http://www.ucolick.org/~de/CVSbeginner.html Excellent document for those who don't use CVS often or are using it for the first time. -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 541-683-8383 fax 541-683-8144 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
