Re: [lcd4linux] How to get started with lcd4linux

[Robert D. <ro...@he...>]

Okay, on your advice I abandoned the rsync approach and just sorted  
out the cvs command.  Here it is:

  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@lc...:/cvsroot/ 
lcd4linux co -P lcd4linx

I was not prompted for the password.



On Sep 30, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Michael Reinelt wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
>> I tried using the command line
>> cvs client but kept running into password prompts. sf.net offers anon
>> access but I couldn't quite work that out so...
>
> just press <Enter> on the password prompt. I think this should be
> documented quite well in the wiki, download section.
>
>> For the sake of this
>> list and future googlers here is what I did:
>>
>> rsync -av rsync://lcd4linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/lcd4linux/* .
>
> Well, I don't think this was a good ideas... this way you've been
> mirroring the whole CVS repository...
>
>> This worked out much better for me than CVS, and I got all of the
>> files in the repo without complaint, except... All files were
>> downloaded with ',v' appended to the filenames!  So here is the one-
>> liner I used to deal with that:
>>
>> perl -e 'foreach $old (glob "*,v"){$new = $old, $new =~ s/,v
>> $//;rename $old, $new;}'
>
> these ',v' files are versioned files from the repository. YOu shall  
> not
> try to compile'em!
>
>
>
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