RE: [Boa Constr] Boa CVS tutorial

[Patrick K. O'B. <po...@or...>]

Thank you. That was the boost I needed to get me over the CVS hump. Now that
I have the command line cvs working, I have some questions about boa because
I still can't quite get it to work:

I did a brand new checkout of boa (from a dos prompt using the command line
cvs) and then opened boa and some of the boa source files are immediately
displaying in the CVS folder with a red icon. What is that all about?

When I select one of the files in the CVS folder, right click and select
Update or Status or Diff, I get a Debug dialog box (which gets hidden by the
editor window) that says

..\msw\app.cpp(1302): assert failed: wxYield called recursively
Do you want to stop the program?
You can also choose [Cancel] to suppress further warnings.

I select the No button and then get the CVS command line dialog which does
its thing and closes so fast that I can't tell what it did, or didn't, do.
Except that I would expect to see some results from status or diff and I
don't in boa while I do from the dos prompt. I actually think I get the
results in boa but the dialog closes immediately after it gets a response
back from the repository so I don't have time to see the result.

---
Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech
"I am, therefore I think."

-----Original Message-----
From: boa...@li...
[mailto:boa...@li...]On Behalf Of Riaan
Booysen
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 7:48 AM
To: Boa list
Subject: [Boa Constr] Boa CVS tutorial

Hello everybody, I've updated Boa's help on CVS Explorer.

The updated document should answer all recent questions and hopefully
make the CVS facilities less mysterious.

Hope this helps.
--

CVS browsing and operations are supported.


Requirements

Command-line CVS has to be installed and working before CVS
operations will work in Boa. CVS operations are implemented as a
thin wrapper on top of command line cvs. You should therefor have
a working knowledge of cvs before using this facility.
CVS over SSH is also supported, but only if keys are used and
created with empty passphrases.

Command-line CVS requires the following:
* cvs.exe for Windows, available from
  http://ftp.cvshome.org/win32/cvs1-11.zip on Linux cvs is part of
  most standard distributions.
* The file cvs.exe must be on the system path ($PATH).
* The $HOME environment variable be defined to point at a valid
  directory.

On Windows NT environment variables can be set from My
Computer->Properties-Environment
On Win9x environment variables can be set in AUTOEXEC.BAT.
e.g. Say your cvs.exe is in C:\CVSBIN and you have a directory
called C:\HOME, you should add

PATH=%PATH%;C:\CVSBIN
HOME=C:\HOME

to the end of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.


Checking out a local copy

In any directory in the Explorer, right click and choose
CVS->Login to log in to a CVS repository.
Fill in the repository's CVSROOT, e.g.:
:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/boa-construc
tor

Next you will be prompted for a password. For anonymous CVS access
to Boa the password is empty, just press enter. This information
is saved in .cvspass in the home directory ($HOME).

To checkout, right click and choose CVS->Checkout. On the given
command line, change [MODULE] to the module you want to check out.
For Boa this is boa.
Also pass the CVSROOT with parameter -d if your $CVSROOT
environment variable is not defined.
e.g. (one line) cvs -z7 -d
:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/boa-construc
tor
checkout -P boa


Browsing/Working on a local copy

Enter the cyan CVS directory of an already checked out module in
the Explorer to view the CVS status of the files.
These directories are created by CVS when a project is checked out
of a CVS repository.

The selection determines which files are passed to CVS on the
command line. When nothing is selected the the current directory
'.' (the one selected in the tree) is used.
The following CVS commands are supported:

* Update
* Commit
* Add
* Add binary
* Remove
* Diff
* Log
* Status
* Tag
* Branch

Right click on the selection and choose a CVS command from the
popup menu or from the toolbar.
A confirmation dialog showing the help for your command and the
command line that will be executed. Edit the command line if
needed.
Results for stderr (Errors and Server messages) is shown in a
message dialog, and results on stdout is shown is a multiline text
control.

If you need to use SSH, SSH has to be setup to use the public and
private keys generated with ssh-keygen and an empty passphrase.

--
Riaan Booysen
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