Fwd: [Fedora-trans-ar] CVS Account Activation

[Munzir Taha]

On Yaum al-Ahad 15 Shawwal 1425 11:39 pm, Turki Al-Ibrahim wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:28:18 +0100 (MET), maha helwa <mahahelwa at gmx.net> 
wrote:
> > Turki..
> > What's your problem with CVS.. this is a good test to see how good was it
> > the article "How to contribute in ..".
> > if you are facing a problem, we should address the and solve it then
> > document it in the same article or in another one.
> >
> > Maha
>
> Well , here is what I did , I exported the following variables :
>          CVSROOT=:ext:turki at i18n.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS
>          &
>          CVS_RSH=ssh
>
> Then , I execured the following command :
>            # cvs -z9 co translate
> I got this error:
>            Connection closed by 66.187.233.241
>            cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult
> above messages if any)
>
> Then , how to use CVS (by example),

You are doing it properly. Ghoneim and Maha are trying to help please answer 
their question so we get this problem resoloved ASAP

> what does check-in and check-out 

Simply put:
check-in = ci = commit => send files from you pc to the server
check-out=co=> get files from the server to your pc 

For more info:
man cvs
info cvs
cvshome.org
http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html

> means ? how to browse files and folders ? how to copy a file from both
> directions ?
>
> And as suggested earlier , document how to configure and use a gui tool.

Just let's try to solve your ssh key problem and everything else would be 
easy.


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