Re: W3C CVS For Dummies - 1st draft

On Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 4:18:55 PM, Tab wrote:

TAJ> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 11:27:22 AM, Tab wrote:

>> TAJ> Some rough Windows instructions:

>> Some alternate Windows instructions (for those who prefer a gui to a command line, or at least want the option).

>> Go to Tortoise web page
>>  http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
>> Download and install it
>> Read the faq on using Tortoise CVS with ssh
>>  http://www.tortoisecvs.org/faq.html#ssh

TAJ> I had tried that previously, with fantasai and Bert in IRC helping me
TAJ> out.  I failed.  This sucked, because I really like using TortoiseSVN,
TAJ> but for some reason the three of us just couldn't figure out how to
TAJ> get the CVS to work.

"works for me" :)

TAJ> I turned to cygwin because it should basically work the same as Linux,
TAJ> which I *did* get working.  Turned out to be a good idea.

Yeah, I use cygwin for other things. But I like the shell integration of tortoise cvs.

root is :ext:clilley@dev.w3.org:/sources/public
repository is csswg/

I can show you if you want, since you are sitting not three feet away currently.


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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
 Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups

Received on Wednesday, 25 August 2010 14:39:24 UTC