Re: checkout ontop of otherwise installed source

[Brian Hughes]

> If you're going to allow anonymous CVS access, the best way to do this
> is to have the tarball be an anonymously checked-out working directory
> complete with metadata in CVS subdirectories.  If you're not going to
> allow anonymous access, then it's probably best to make interested
> people do a full checkout in a new directory rather than trying to
> overlay an existing directory of unknown provenance.
>
> -Larry Jones

Thanks for your answer.

Well, you have hit the issue on the head there -- to butcher a 
metaphor.  The problem is that reasonably speaking, I can't expect people 
to know up front whether they will want to contribute to the project.  And 
because it is web stuff, it is not as if I am distributing a binary vs. 
source.  It is all scripts (PHP).

So... another question is, if I start someone off with anonymous CVS, and 
then they decide Yeah Boy I Wanna Contribute, is it messy & clumsy to 
change them to a new username with commit privileges?  They would be using 
the repository via pserver.

- BLH