Re: Difficulty connecting to CVS repos from winCVS

[Yanglong Zhu]

Jim.Hyslop wrote:

> Yanglong Zhu [mailto:address@hidden wrote:
>  
>
> > Well, now I figured out the culprit of the problem I 
> > experienced. It is 
> > an undocumented CVS odd behavior caused the problems.
> >    
> Would you like to share your experience with the list? Maybe someone can
> either fix the odd behaviour, or add it to the documentation (so it's no
> longer "undocumented" :-)
>
>  
Thanks to Jim Hyslop's discussion and suggestion. Since I've been busy 
with other things, I haven't read this mailing list for quite a while.

Yesterday Mark Joseph Francisco sent me an email asking about the 
solution to the difficulties I had, reminded me to update this mailing 
list about the solutions.

Like everything I do, I want to have a simple, direct, 
down-to-the-earth solution. I have been trying to essentially write a 
minimalistic CVS quick start howto. For me, and everybody else. The CVS 
quick start howto cuts down the discussions, options, etc.to a minimum. 
Those being cut will be linked to, or referenced. Therefore it is an 
essential CVS howto, and makes it possible to read a bit and start using 
CVS system in a hour. But it is in a very early stage, and my experience 
is very limited. Since now there is at least one sole in the world is 
eager to get to now what I have done to solve the problem, I am going to 
make it available on the web. But at the same time I request everyone 
using my simplified CVS howto to contribute to this effort. Essentially 
make CVS a popular utility to as many people as possible. Make it 
popular does not mean to reduce its power, only make its power available 
to more people. I think, in a way file system should have been 
constructed in a similar fashion. That's way off the topic. More to the 
topic is my solution may not address Mark Joseph Francisco's concern, 
because from his short email I don't really know what the problem was 
with his setup.

Now here is the address for my user-friendly CVS quick start howto 
(forum). https://125.15.160.110/bzoffice1/. I set this forum just for 
this dear CVS issue since I have tried for a long time to set up a 
workable CVS system, and not until very recently I made it through.

Hope this helps someone setting up CVS systems, or speed up their 
process of setting up their CVS systems.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.