Re: CVS import

[Stefan <st...@hi...>]

Hi Liam,

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Liam Healy wrote:
> healy@poincare /import{84}(6:15pm)% cvs -d :pserver:li...@cv...:/cvsroot/clocc login                 (Logging in to li...@cv...)
> CVS password: (my password here)
> healy@poincare /import{85}(6:16pm)% cvs -d :pserver:li...@cv...:/cvsroot/clocc import -m "Paul Graham's On Lisp sources" pg liam initial
> cvs [server aborted]: "import" requires write access to the repository
> 
> Can anyone clue me in here?
> Thanks much.
> 

For write-access you have to connect via ssh-protocol and not pserver.

1. Install ssh version 1. (e.g. ssh-1.2.27 works fine)
   Download from ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/
   or ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/packages/security/ssh/

2. The environment variable CVS_RSH must (!) be set to "ssh"
   (bash: export CVS_RSH=ssh, t/csh: setenv CVS_RSH ssh)

3. 
cvs -z3 -d...@cv...:/cvsroot/clocc co clocc


you will be prompted for your password. Type in your sourceforge-password.
then a workspace will be checked out for you.

4. choose a nice place for the "on lisp" sources, which should be a path
   like  "clocc/src/onlisp" or something.
  
5. cd in your local, not yet imported "onlisp"-directory (! very
   important, because the following command will import everything from
   within your "current working directory" and all recursively nested
   stuff!!)

   and issue the command:

   
cvs -z3 -d...@cv...:/cvsroot/clocc import
clocc/clocc/src/"onlispdir"    <vendortag> <releasetag>

<vendortag> and <releasetag> are symbolic names  which you can choose
at own will.

My suggestion:  vendortag == liam
                releasetag == initial_checkin

or something.

You can find documentation for cvs at:

<http://www.loria.fr/cgi-bin/molli/wilma.cgi/doc>

another good source, that I have just found via <altavista-search: +cvs
+home +page +documentation>:

<http://www.fido.de/kama/cvs-1-10-7-en.html>

This seems to be rather recent information.

Do you have a GNU/Linux - Installation at hand?
Then how about using the info - command:

<shell-prompt>  info cvs

And have a lot of fun lisping! :-)

Bye,

Stefan