How do I check out my own copy of the main page with CVS?
Christopher Brooks, 14 Apr 2005
Last updated: 8 Jul 2008

The main page is under CVS access. To update the main page, you need administrative privileges in the trust workgroup. To request permission, go to Options and request administrative access in the trust workgroup.

Once you have been granted administrative privileges in the trust workgroup, obtain CVS access, and then you can check out your own working copy by using either the command line or Tortoise CVS

Using the command line to check out the website

export CVS_RSH=ssh

setenv CVS_RSH ssh

cvs -d :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_trust co trustwww

Using Tortoise CVS to check out the website

1. Download and install Tortoise CVS.
   If you are feeling brave, then instead of rebooting during installation, use the Windows task manager to kill the explorer.exe process, then use File | New Task (Run . . .) to start explorer. Or, reboot.
2. Go to the directory where you would like to check out the tree, right click and select "CVS Checkout"
3. In the "TortoiseCVS - Checkout Module" window, set
   CVSROOT to

   :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_trust
   

   
   If your login is different on your current machine than on the source, try:

   :ext:yoursourcelogin@source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_trust
   

   Set Module to

   trustwww
   

   Then hit the "OK" button.

Further information

How do I edit pages in a group with the "CVS Authoring" option?