CVS Instructions
Abstract
CVS, The Concurrent Version System is a tool allowing developers to keep track of changes to a project. It is used by all spootnik projects and is where you'll find the current development version of our projects. If you'd like to know more about CVS please visit the CVS homepage.
Browsing through CVS
If you'd just like to browse through the available source code or see a particular revision, you can browse the CVS Repository using Sourceforge.net's web CVS frontend
Retrieving a copy of a module
Each project is stored in what is called a CVS module
.
If you'd like to get a copy of such a module you'll need to follow these simple steps:
Logging in to the CVS Repository
First you'll need to login into the server using the following command:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/spootnik login
This will prompt you for a password, since the anonymous account doesn't have a password, you can press the enter key.
Retrieving a module
You can then ask for the retrieval of the desired module with the following command:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/spootnik 'modulename'
Don't forget to replace 'modulename' by the appropriate module name.
Keeping informed of CVS changes
If you want to know what's going on in the CVS Repository you can subscribe to the spootnik CVS mailing list by going to the subscribe page.