RE: newbie question : regarding installation

[S I]

Hi

The preferred way of installing CVS is serving the repository from a 
Unix/Linux server (w/o shell access) and on the windows client side using 
the :pserver method and using 1 of the 3 following clients to login:

1. DOS client (cvs.exe) [Very easy 3-step set up]

2. Tortoise, A seamless Windows Explorer plugin

3. WinCVS, a GUI and complete API

However, if you plan to serve CVS from a *nix server and give shell access 
to users, then they could use putty.exe to access the *nix server from their 
WinXP desktops but this means their working folders & views will be on the 
*nix box and not their desktops.

If you're not planning to serve CVS from unix/linux then you need to CVSNT 
and serve it from a Windows Server and again use one of the above clients to 
login.

If you don't serve the repository from a server (unix or nt) then it will be 
local ONLY to your machine and others will not get to see it.  And I don't 
think you'd wanna install cvsnt on your XP desktop to allow your machine to 
be choked acting as a server.

I hope this is clear enough to get you going and if I'm wrong, I'm sure 
someone will correct me. :)

Steven

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Hi everyone,
Greetings!
I was thinking of using cvs for one of my projects. And i was wondering if
any of you got an advice as to how i would install cvs for windows xp.
There's a lot of web sites that recommend different approaches in doing so.
Since most of them differ in the software (i.e., cvsnt, putty, cgywin)
involved in installing cvs, i get confused with which is the best one to
use. If you could recommend or suggest anything, I would really really
appreciate it.
Thank you and Good day!

Regards,
Michael
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