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Rob Bodington wrote up the following after sucessfully writing to the “stepmod” CVS repository:

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At last .... SUCCESS.

It was a real gotcha.

I initially checked out the module without using SSH. I then set up SSH. When I then tried to check stuff back, my local copy had the initial CVSROOT - not the one needed for SSH. Hence I could not check stuff back in.

I found out where I was going wrong from https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=769&group_id=1.

Here are some additional notes on how to get CVS working with SourceForge. I distilled this from a load of help pages that Josh pointed me to. If I have anything wrong or it does not work, then let us know.

This details the software I am using - there are other ways of doing this.

This help was based on Josh's help page at http://ats.nist.gov/stepmod/cvswin.html.

1. Register on SourceForge, and request developer access from the stepmod project administrator.
2. Install WinCVS - Can be down loaded from: http://www.wincvs.org/
3. Install the SSH software PuTTY - You need putty.exe, plink.exe, pageant.exe, puttygen.exe. The putty help pages would be a useful download as well. These can be down loaded from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/. Useful help pages: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6841&group_id=1
4. Set up and test your SSH to connect to SourceForge. First generate and post your SSH key to SourceForge. Details on how to do this are at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=761&group_id=1. Note - you will have to wait 6 hours before your key has been circulated.
5. Create and save a putty session that logs on to SourceForge using SSH. On the session window:

    Host Name: cvs.stepmod.sourceforge.net SSH selected 

   On the SSH window:

    SSH 1 selected 

   Specify your authentication key.
6. Set up PLINK and CVS environment variables

    set CVS_RSH=/path/to/plink.exe set PLINK_PROTOCOL=ssh 

7. Run pageant adding your key
8. Configure WinCVS
   Admin->Preferences->General
   CVSROOT box
   :ext:putty_session_name:/cvsroot/stepmod
   where putty_session_name is the name of the putty session you just created.
   Admin->Preferences->Ports
   Alternative rsh name
   E:/apps/putty/plink.exe
9. Check out the repository - use the Admin->Command line
   cvs -d:ext:username@cvs.stepmod.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/stepmod co stepmod

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Created by Josh Lubell

Last modified Monday July 01, 2002