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

Setting Up CVS

You can access CVS repository in many ways. If you use Eclipse IDE (http://www.eclipse.org) then:

For checking out project

• Click 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
• The screen will look like the one in screen shot→(see attachment team.gif)
• 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
• Only need to check out a project once

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

Normal Usage

• commit--once you have checked out and modified a project, you can check it back in
• Synchronise with repository--used for synchronising your project version with CVS

Some useful links on CVS

• http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ugrad/facilities/windows/cvs-setup.shtml
• http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html

Setting File Permission

• setfacl

My Links

• WelcomeGuest to learn TWiki
• Sandbox web to try out TWiki
• YingYinSandbox just for me

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 =

Related topics

• ChangePassword
• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Main web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.