CVS Newbie

[MikeH30]

I am trying to access some project files at SourceForge. I have been reading up on Concurrent Version Systems but I am still not sure how to use it.

I currently have Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 - SP2 for my web server and OpenSuse 11.0, KDE 4.1 on my laptop. SLES10-SP2 has the following installed as indicated by Yast Software Managment:

cvs - Concurrent Versions System

CVS is a front-end to the Revision Control System included in the standard Linux distributions. PCL-CVS, an Emacs front-end for CVS, is also included.

Authors:
Brian Berliner <berliner@sun.com>
Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com>

I do not see an icon for starting "cvs" any where on my server.

How do I use "CVS" on either SLES10-SP2 or OpenSUSE 11.0 (KDE 4.1) to get the Source Forge cvs files?

Regards,

-Mike

[gogalthorp]

CVS is a command line utility.

You need a GUI front end try Cervisia. It comes with the kde development kit (kdesdk3). But there are many others. Doing a search on cvs in Yast should bring up several. If you don't want to install the kde dev kit you might try crossvc.

You can get more info on the commands with

man cvs and info cvs

[MikeH30]

Thank you!

-Mike