The MathLAN CVS repository

I have set up a directory for GIST software in the CVS repository at /cvs on cvs.cs.grinnell.edu, and I have created CVS passwords for members of the team. To configure your shell to use this repository automatically, add the line

export CVSROOT=:pserver:spelvin@cvs.cs.grinnell.edu:/cvs

(substituting your own name for spelvin) to your ~/.bash_profile file, and type the same line into any current shells that you will use CVS from.

You'll probably need the password only once, in order to log in through the remote server the first time; this login will create a file called

source ~/.bash_profile

Currently the repository contains only release 0.1 of hydrogen, any member of the team can add files and directories to the repository, provided that they are in subdirectories of a directory called gist (lower case). For instance, moving to the directory above gist and giving the command

cvs import -m "Initial setup" gist/helium GIST pre-release

should copy the files in the gist/helium subdirectory into a similarly named subdirectory of the repository.