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pwd
in the second terminal to verify that you are in your home directory.cvs -d :pserver:[username]@localhost:/cvs login
[username]
is your login name for the OpenOffice.org web site. This login step only needs to be done the first time you do work at a project.cvs -d :pserver:username@projectname.domain.net:/cvs checkout [projectname]
username
is your openoffice.org user login,projectname.domain.net
is the path to where the file lives, and[projectname]
is the name of a file or directory in the CVS file server.Examples of the checkout command for user zzzzzz:
cvs -d :pserver:zzzzzz@localhost:/cvs checkout documentation
cvs -d :pserver:zzzzzz@localhost:/cvs checkout documentation/www/faqs
cvs -d :pserver:zzzzzz@localhost:/cvs checkout documentation/www/faqs/index.html
cvs -d :pserver:zzzzzz@localhost:/cvs checkout marketing/www/index.html
cvs -d :pserver:zzzzzz@localhost:/cvs checkout qa/www/index.html
Once you have checked out a document or folder of documents, you can go off-line to do your edits. You will find the files in your home folder in the directory structure called out during the checkout command. (If you were not in your home directory when you started, the files will be in whatever pwd you were in when you initiated the checkout command. You will want to fix that.) When you are done with your off-line work, you will establish a new tunnel and upload your changed and new files to the site.
Note: The commands checkout
or co
or get
work to perform checkouts.
Tip: In a terminal, use the up-arrow key to cycle through the past commands used. You can select and edit commands, instead of typing them each time. The computer will only read what is visible at the command prompt when you hit the Enter key.
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