= How To Use the Ella CVS

Date: april 2003
please suggestions to:
  matthew@ella-associates.org or matth3wbishop@yahoo.com

INTRODUCTION

  This document provides a super quick resume of how to use the 
  Ella Associates CVS server

AN EXPLANATION

  the cvs server is now working. 
  In order to connect from Netbeans you will need
  the following information

    username = nicko
    p        = n1ckn1ck
    port     = 2401    (you dont need to change this)
    Connection Method = Password Server 
    Repository        = /var/lib/cvs

  If you are using a command line cvs client, such as the MS-Windows version,
  available here http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList

  then you will need to use the url :pserver:nicko@ella-associates.org:/var/lib/cvs

  for example
    cvs -d :pserver:nicko@ella-associates.org:/var/lib/cvs login
  logs you in and 
    cvs -d :pserver:nicko@ella-associates.org:/var/lib/cvs checkout alexis/org
  checks out the org subdirectory of the alexis module

  You probably know this, but in Netbeans you choose from the menu's
    versioning -> mount version control -> cvs  and then follow the steps of the wizard.

  The entire alexis folder is set up as a cvs 'module' which is just a way of
  accessing the folder. However you only need to checkout the entire code the first
  time. After that you can use the 'update' command.  The cvs checkout command
  actually gives you a 'working copy' of the code, across the network, so if you
  checkout the entire folder it will take ages. You can checkout sub-folders of
  the alexis tree by adding the path after the module name e.g. alexis/org

  To actually submit your changes to the code into the cvs repository, use the
  'commit' command. cvs also includes a command 'release' which gets rid of
  your working copy, once you have finished making changes to it, but I cannot
  see this command in the Netbeans implementation.

  A warning: cvs is not a backup system. If the repository gets deleted then
  everything is lost.

  dont drink too much cheap vermouth