• Name: Ying Yin
• Email: clevershadow@hotmailDELETEthisTEXT.com
• Company Name: UBC
• Country: Canada

Setting Up and Using CVS

You can access CVS repository in many ways.

For Eclipse IDE (http://www.eclipse.org):

For checking out project

• Click File → new → project → CVS → Checkout Projects from CVS
• If you're running it the first time a setup window will pop up. Select Create a new repository location
• These are the information needed to fill in the Repository Location Information form:
  1. enter the host: cascade.cs.ubc.ca
  2. repository path: /ubc/cs/home/y/yingyin/GanttChart
  3. your CS Unix userid
  4. your CS password
  5. select connection type as "extssh" and use default port
  6. click Finish
• Choose "Use an existing module"
• Select a module (schedulingProblem). Don't select CVSROOT. Then click Next until Finish.
• Only need to check out a project once

Normal Usage after Checking out the Project

Right click on the project and choose Team, then

• Commit--once you have modified a project, you can check it back in
• Synchronise with repository--used for synchronising your project version with CVS
• The screen will look like the one in screen shot→(see attachment team.gif)

For sharing project, adding a new project to repository

1. Create/Use existing project, and right click on the project name
2. Select Team > Share Project
3. Choose CVS as the repository type and then click Next
4. Select "Create a new repository location"
5. Fill in the repository location information as menstioned above
6. Don't put project under CVSROOT directory

For Unix Commands:

Invoking CVS

The format of a CVS invocation is:

$ cvs <command>

where command can be: update, commit, import etc. For example, you can use

$ cvs update

Accessing A Repository

Before you can do anything, you must tell CVS the location of the repository you'll be accessing. This isn't a concern if you already have a working copy checked out - any working copy knows what repository it came from, so CVS can automatically deduce the repository for a given working copy. So for the first time, you need to tell CVS explicitly where to go. This is done with the -d global option followed by the path to the repository. For example:

$ cvs -d /ubc/cs/home/y/yingyin/GanttChart <command>

You can also change the environment variable CVSROOT to avoid typing -d <repository location>:

• edit ~/csh_init/environment with a text editor
• add the following line: setenv CVSROOT <repository location>
• logout and log back in.

Some useful links on CVS

• http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ugrad/facilities/windows/cvs-setup.shtml
• http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
• Also see Eclipse help on CVS

Setting File Permission

• setfacl

My Links

• WelcomeGuest to learn TWiki
• Sandbox web to try out TWiki
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Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Show tool-tip topic info on mouse-over of WikiWord links, on or off: (see details in TWikiPreferences)
  • Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = off
• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 70
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 22
• Style of text edit box. width: 99% for full window width (default), width: auto to disable.
  • Set EDITBOXSTYLE = width: 99%
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE =

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• ChangePassword
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• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Main web.
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