Re: Personal CVS repository?

[Geoff Beier]

Hi Jill,

> It occurs to me, though, that maybe I could set up a "personal"
> CVS repository off my home directory (although I'll readily admit
> that I've never set up a CVS repository of *any* kind before); I
> would use it for my "fine-grain" version control, while submitting
> new, boss-approved stuff to the "real" off-site repository only
> once a week...
This is very easy to do... it's one of the easiest ways to use CVS and 
is an excellent application of the tool. Here's a quick synopsis. For a 
detailed, friendly explanation, look here: 
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html

(This assumes you're using a command line client in a UNIX-like 
environment.)

If you want the repository to go in your home directory, start there. 
Assume your project is in a subdirectory called myproject:
1. mkdir mypersonalrepository
2. cvs -d $HOME/mypersonalrepository init
3. cd myproject
4. cvs -d $HOME/mypersonalrepository import -m "initial import of 
myproject from myvendor" myproject myvendor initial
5. cd ..
6. mv myproject myproject.original
7. cvs -d $HOME/mypersonalrepository co myproject

Check the contents of myproj and make sure all is well, then you can 
work with files inside just like it's any other repository. You can 
even access it remotely with no further configuration if you have ssh 
access to the machine with your repository... just set CVS_RSH=ssh and 
issue the command
cvs -d:ext:address@hidden:/path/to/mypersonalrepository co myproject

Look at the cvs book on red-bean.com and the manual on cvshome.org for 
a more verbose explanation of what's happening here and of some tagging 
operations that will help you manage your contributions.

HTH,

Geoff