Re: [Savannah-help-public] address@hidden: Re: shell]

[Devon Sean McCullough]

Thank you very much, if I do a syscall trace on various CVS commands
and work out what they really do, perhaps I'll write my own intro.

Confused by CVS syntax, I did "diff emacs" which erred with "I know
nothing about emacs" which conveys "no such project on this server"
but apparently means "syntax error" because just "diff" seems to work.

You mention "update" as a way to merge my changes with your latest
version, when I tried CVSUP to do that, it killed all my files.

                Peace
                        --Devon
         /~\
         \ /    Health Care
          X     not warfare
         / \

        Dubya won the digital vote
        Kerry won the popular vote

Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:09:36 +0200
From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] address@hidden: Re: shell]
In-Reply-To: <address@hidden>

Hello,

In your working directory, you can issue:

cvs diff

to get the changes against the version you checked out last year, and

cvs diff -r HEAD

to get the diffs against the latest version of emacs.


To update your repository to the latest version and get a chance to
locally merge your changes with that latest version, use

cvs update


HTH

-- 
Sylvain


On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:53:14PM -0400, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
> I checked it out last year.
> Now I want to update my copy.
> However I don't want it to erase
> my changes which I have yet to send in.
> So I thought, hmm, seems one can say 'diff'
> where previously one said 'co' and it will show
> what changes have been made since I checked it out.
> 
> Perhaps I'm thinking in terms of concepts which to not apply
> in the weird twilight zone of CVS?  I have put CVS for Dummies
> on my reading list.  Meanwhile I see the 'co' command works fine
> so I'll keep two copies of emacs source for lack of a better idea.
> 
>               Peace
>                       --Devon
>        /~\
>        \ /    Health Care
>         X     not warfare
>        / \
> 
>       Dubya won the digital vote
>       Kerry won the popular vote
> 
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:14:15 +0200
> From: Sylvain <address@hidden>
> To: Devon Sean McCullough <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] address@hidden: Re: shell]
> Mail-Followup-To: Devon Sean McCullough <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> In-Reply-To: <address@hidden>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> You found the right instructions page, so I'm relieved that it indeed
> can be found easily.
> 
> Now, your problem more resides in the use of the cvs tool.  We do not
> provide instructions for using CVS itself, because CVS already comes
> with documentation and Savannah makes no non-standard use of CVS.
> 
> I am not sure on what you want to do here. You attempt to use the
> 'diff' command. Have you already done a checkout (command 'co'
> described in the instructions page) of the repository? What do you
> want to diff against? Your commands seems to try to do too many things
> at once.
> 
> Also, the CVS setup didn't change since last year, so maybe there's a
> bug somewhere. Is your quoted command what you used to type last year?
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:43:58PM -0400, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
> > Sylvain,
> > 
> > Thanks for replying.  With no anonymous CVS access, how can I hack?
> > CVS is an evil black box to me, so please keep it simple.
> > 
> > Google (emacs anonymous cvs) --[I'm feeling lucky]-->       
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs
> > 
> > $ export CVS_RSH="ssh"
> > $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs diff emacs
> > cvs server: I know nothing about emacs
> > $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/webcvs/emacs diff emacs
> > cvs server: I know nothing about emacs
> > $
> > 
> > It worked last year, what's the incantation now?
> > 
> >             Peace
> >                     --Devon
> >      /~\
> >      \ /    Health Care
> >       X     not warfare
> >      / \
> > 
> >     Dubya won the digital vote
> >     Kerry won the popular vote
> > 
> > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:18:20 +0200
> > From: Sylvain <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > Hello (I don't know your real name).
> > 
> > I adjusted a link that pointed to the FAQs list instead of a specific
> > answer, but we were already told the CVS instructions are hard to
> > find, and we thought we had fixed this issue back then.
> > 
> > Would you be so kind to try and find the instructions to perform an
> > anonymous access of the Emacs project, and explain what was difficult,
> > and possibly suggest a better way to present the information?
> > 
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sylvain
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:17:27AM -0400, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> > > Can you make it easier to find these instructions?
> > > It appears to be too hard.
> > > 
> > > ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> > > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:51:55 -0400 (EDT)
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > In-reply-to: <address@hidden> (address@hidden)
> > > Subject: Re: shell
> > > 
> > >    From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> > >    Reply-to: address@hidden
> > >    Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:38:42 -0400
> > > 
> > >    Savannah has instructions about how to do anonymous access.
> > >    Please take a look, they should be easy to find.
> > > 
> > > They aren't.
> > > ------- End of forwarded message -------