Could you please help a lamer with a lamerly question? How the heck do I commit changes to the CVS repository? This CVS thingy I got seems to contain no help files whatsoever (note that I'm using the CVS commandline version... not the evil WinCVS, which is impossible to understand). And I can't find any blasted help on CVS on the net! Aaargh, perhaps I'm not just looking right... -Remi

I will try to explain how to do this with WinCVS. Step by step: 1) Browse to the directory with sources. It will list files in this directory. Files that were changed will have a red icon. 2) Select changed files. 3) In toolbox click icon with document and red arrow. This will open commit dialog. 4) Enter log message, i.e. what changes were made. 5) Click OK. This will start commit process. It will run SSH, which will be executed as minimized sou you will have to switch to it in taskbar. Enter password and that's it. Also in first time in Commit settings dialog open Globals tab and enable compression for faster updates. I hope this helps.

*sigh* I guess I'll have another shot at this WinCVS thingy... have your prayers with me... -Remi

I just commited my changes into CVS. And I realized that one of the files in CVS directory contains user name and when trying to commit from sources archive that I uploaded you are prompted for my password. So to get it to work you first must checkout sources from CVS. Here's step-by-step how to do this with WinCVS. 1. In menu choose Create -> Checkout module... 2. In "Checkout settings" tab enter module name ScatteredEvil and choose folder where to place files. 3. In General tab enter CVSROOT <!-- e --><a href="mailto:username@cvs.korax.sourceforge.net">username@cvs.korax.sourceforge.net</a><!-- e -->:/cvsroot/korax where username is your user name. In Authentification select "SSH server". 4. Press OK, enter password and wait while it downloads. Now this is your working copy of sources. Replace files that you changed with new ones and commit them. Any questions?

I get:

unrecognized request `nses ok error Valid-requests Checked-in New-entry Checksum Copy-file Updated Created Update-existing Merged Patched Rcs-diff Mode Mod-time Removed Remove-entry Set-static-directory Clear-static-directory Set-sticky Clear-sticky Template Set-checkin-prog Set-update-prog Notified Module-expansion Wrapper-rcsOption M Mbinary E F MT' *****CVS exited normally with code 1*****

When I try to Checkout Module.

Strange, never saw anything like that. What version of WinCVS you are using?

[quote="dj_jl":gdutszd3]Strange, never saw anything like that. What version of WinCVS you are using? 1.2

Me too. Strange. Try it again. If it still doesn't work, maybe try to reinstall WinCVS.

I could have the problem see here: [img:1tajsulu]http://www.korax-heritage.com/images/newspics/1611021.jpg[/img:1tajsulu] What do you think?

I've tryed again a few times, and don't get that message.

If you added the key to your cache the first time, of course you won't see that message any more. Anyway, it's a standard message with any secure connections when setting up for the first time. Nothing CVS-specific.

Oh sorry I didn't say yesterday that I tryed a few times and still got it. And now it quits with:

cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) *****CVS exited normally with code 1*****

Hmm. This is a little bit more familiar message, and usually at more attempts it finally does what you want. Another thing that comes into my mind is trying to simply connect using SSH. AFAIR I had similar problems, and when I connected like this, it created some config files and it started to work. Yeah, this was with Vavoom, where it was a fresh CVS root, with Koax-Heritage I hadn't to do this. Another thing to try is log in from WinCVS Admin menu.