This document gives a brief overview of how to access the PhiWave code using
anonymous (readonly) CVS.
When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply
press the Enter key. You may get errors related to a .cvspass file;
these can be resolved by creating an empty file called .cvspass in
your home directory.
To check out the current development code, use
the cvs command checkout or it's abbreviation co:
The -z3 makes the CVS server compressing the files before transferring them
with a gzip level 3. The files are automatically unzipped by your CVS client.
Please always use compressed transfer to reduce network load. You
can automate things a bit by creating a file ~/.cvsrc which these lines:
All information about the repository, login, module and branch is stored by CVS in the
subdirectories CVS, so that you don't have to care about this any more. The password
(in this case it's empty) is stored in ~/.cvspass. You can move the checked out
source around, you can even move it to another machine without loosing the ability to
do a CVS update.