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How do I edit pages in a group with the "CVS Authoring" option
Christopher Brooks, 7 Jun 2007
Last updated: 7 Jun 2007
Based on text by John Reekie from the GSRC FAQ
Getting started quickly
Many of the workgroups have a CVS Repository associated with them. To update the pages, do the following
- Request a CVS account. Note that your login on source.eecs.berkeley.edu may be different than your login on the website. If you have a UCB EECS account, then
your login on source will be the same as your UCB EECS login. If your username on source is different than your
local account, then in the commands below you can use
username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu instead
of source.eecs.berkeley.edu, for example,
ptolemy@source.eecs.berkeley.edu
- When you get email back notifying you that your
account on source is created, use
ssh to
log in to source.eecs.berkeley.edu and run passwd to change your password.
- Install CVS and SSH. If you are using Windows, try
TortoiseCVS,
- If you are using the command line, be sure that the
CVS_RSH environment variable is set to ssh.
- To check out the CVS repository associated with
a workgroup, you need to know where the repository is located. All the repositories for the CHESS, Embedded
and TRUST sites are on
source.eecs.berkeley.edu.
- CHESS
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess
- Embedded
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_embedded
- TRUST
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_trust
- If you are using a cvs command line client, then set
the
CVS_RSH environment variable to
ssh.
So, for example to check out the foo
website, on CHESS, the command lines would be
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co foo
Or, if your login on source.eecs.berkeley.edu was ptolemy, the command lines would be:
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:ptolemy@source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co foo
- Make your changes to your local copy of the repository.
- Commit your changes by providing a useful message:
cd foo
cvs commit -m "message describing your changes"
- Go to the website and click
on "CVS Update" at the bottom of the page.
Detailed instructions about Checking Out a Repository
Concurrent Version System (CVS) is a version control system that allows multiple users to edit the same source tree.
We use CVS to manage the content of group web pages.
Subversion (SVN) is newer than CVS and is used to
manage some software packages. Your Unix account
on source.eecs.berkeley.edu can be used with both
CVS and SVN repositories.
Bear in mind that CVS authoring is generally
useful for software projects, in which case we assume
that you know the basics of CVS and can use SSH.
For further information about CVS, see the
GSRC CVS FAQ
- If you are a group administrator check that
your group has CVS authoring turned on by going
to your group pages and then clicking on the
Admin link and then Configure Group
link and verifying that CVS Module
and CVS Checkin are selected.
If these two choices are not selected, then
select them and hit the Change Group Configuration
button at the bottom. This will send email to
webmaster, who will then set up your cvs repository
and send email back to you. While you are waiting,
you can proceed with the steps below.
- If you don't yet have a CVS account on
source.eecs.berkeley.edu, get one.
You can
request a CVS account.
- If ssh and cvs are not yet installed, then
install the SSH client and CVS
- Make sure that the CVS_RSH environment variable is set to
ssh.
To check under Windows, start up a Bash shell
(Start->Programs->Cygnus Solutions->Cygwin Bash Shell)
and type
echo $CVS_RSH. If it is not set, then
set it using Start->Settings->Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables
CVS_RSH should be added and set to ssh.
You may want to check that your path has been set
to include Cygwin, which is located at c:cygwinbin
To check under Unix, start a shell and type echo $CVS_RSH.
If CVS_RSH is not set, then edit your shell startup files to
set it automatically. If you run C-shell (csh), or some variant
like tcsh, edit ~/.cshrc and add
setenv CVS_RSH ssh
If you run the Bourne shell (sh) or some variant like bash,
edit ~/.profile and add
export CVS_RSH=ssh
- Create a file in your home directory called
.cvsrc that contains:
update -P -d
This is necessary so that when you run
cvs update, then the -P
and -d flags are automatically appended.
cvs update -P -d will prune any directories
that contain no files and create any new directories
that someone else has checked in.
If you do not create a ~/.cvsrc file,
then you will need to run
cvs update -P -d instead of cvs update
- Once you have received email stating that your cvs account is setup, log
on to the cvs server with
ssh source:
ssh source.eecs.berkeley.edu
If your source login is different from your local login then you use username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu
ssh username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu
If you have a UC Berkeley EECS computer account, then
your login on source should be the same as your
UC Berkeley EECS login. If you don't have a UCB EECS
computer account, then your login is probably 8
characters or less and is your first initial followed
by your name. If you have questions, respond to the
email that you received when you got your password.
Once successfully logged in change your password with the passwd
command to something more reasonable
claudius@maury 67% ssh ptolemy@source.eecs.berkeley.edu
ptolemy@source's password:
Last login: Fri Aug 27 17:50:34 1999 from maury.eecs.berke^M
No mail.
$ passwd
passwd: Changing password for ptolemy
Enter login password:
New password:
Re-enter new password:
passwd (SYSTEM): passwd successfully changed for ptolemy
$ exit
Connection to source closed.
claudius@maury 68%
-
- To check out the CVS repository associated with
a workgroup, you need to know where the repository is located. All the repositories for the CHESS, Embedded
and TRUST sites are on
source.eecs.berkeley.edu.
- CHESS
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess
- Embedded
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_embedded
- TRUST
:ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_trust
So, for example to check out the foo
website, on CHESS, the command line would be
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co foo
If your username on source is different than your local username:
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co foo
- The CVS repository for each workgroup has
a
web subdirectory that contains the website.
There may also be adjacent directories that contain software
projects.
To change the website,
cd into the foo/web directory
and edit a file
- Commit your changes with
cvs commit -m "message about your change" fileyouedited
You will then be prompted for your password, and
the change will be committed.
- Go to a page in that workspace. You will see an "CVS Update"
link in the toolbar at the bottom of the page.
Click on it.
- Press on the "Go back" link and make sure that the
pages are what you expect.
Common Problems
Can't get the initial download
- Make sure you have the right username and password.
Use
ssh username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu to verify you can connect
- Maybe the
CVS_RSH variable is not set
to ssh. Try:
echo $CVS_RSH
you should see
bash-3.00$ echo $CVS_RSH
ssh
bash-3.00$
- Try
ssh username@source.eecs.berkeley.edu cvs --version
You should see something like
bash-3.00$ ssh ptolemy@source.eecs.berkeley.edu cvs --version
password: XXXXXX
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.22 (client/server)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Senior active maintainers include Larry Jones, Derek R. Price,
and Mark D. Baushke. Please see the AUTHORS and README files from the CVS
distribution kit for a complete list of contributors and copyrights.
CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.
Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
bash-3.00$
If you don't see that results, but you can log in,
then there is a problem with your account on source
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