[Biojava-l] CVS biojava-live and 1.2

[chris dagdigian]

Schreiber, Mark wrote:

> Hi -
>
> For the less CVS literate amongst us (or just me) how can I set up CVS 
> to capture the 1.2 branch and the biojava-live branch (and any other 
> branch for that matter).
>
> Actually could someone summarise what brances there are and what each 
> one could be used for?
>

Mark-

I just finished  re-doing and upgrading our anonymous and web-based CVS 
server. Point your browser to http://cvs.open-bio.org or 
http://cvs.biojava.org/

The updated web interface is pretty slick (still some bugs and broken 
internal links sometimes as you get deep into the site...) and allows 
you to easily browse the different branches, visualize the diffs between 
multiple files and even download custom-generated tarballs.

If you are looking at maintaining local copies of the latest source code 
then you can do this pretty easily via anonymous cvs as long as there 
are no firewall or proxy issues blocking things. Just follow the example 
commands that are online at http://cvs.open-bio.org/. If things are 
unclear then please give me your feedback so I can incorporate changes 
that will help future users.

Branches can be accessed via use of the "-r" tag during your CVS 
checkout operation. You'll have to get advice from the hardcore biojava 
folks (or browse webcvs) to figure out the specific branch names you are 
interested in (looks like there is a release tag called 
"release-1_2-branch" that would work). You do not need to use "-r" to 
get biojava-live as it will just default to the head branch.

Example use of revision tags with anonymous cvs:

$prompt> cvs :pserver:cvs@cvs.open-bio.org:/home/repository/biojava login
(when prompted your password will be 'cvs')

$prompt> cvs :pserver:cvs@cvs.open-bio.org:/home/repository/biojava 
checkout -r "release-1_2-branch" biojava-live

You may also want to use the "-d" switch to put the checked out code 
into a directory that reflects that you have checked out a branch rather 
than the biojava-live head. A repeat of the above command with this 
switch would be this:

$prompt> cvs :pserver:cvs@cvs.open-bio.org:/home/repository/biojava 
checkout -r "release-1_2-branch" -d "./biojava-1.2" biojava-live

After you do the checkout operation you should be able to go into that 
directory and just issue the "cvs update" command in the future.

If you are a biojava developer (with an account on the server) and you 
want to maintain a writable version of the repository that you can 
commit changes to then drop me or root-l@bioperl.org an email and we'll 
help you get sorted offline.

Regards,
Chris



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