CVS-Newbie needs help

[SirDavidGuy]

God I feel like a moron...

How do I download the whole Dev branch of the codec at once?
I'm not accustomed to CVS at all, I know nothing in it's ways.

/me bows head in shame.

[-h]

How do I download the whole Dev branch of the codec at once?
I'm not accustomed to CVS at all, I know nothing in it's ways.

I just use WinCVS and perform a checkout "by revision/branch/tag", and type "dev-api-3" into the box. I like GUIs.

But for command-line cvs access, I dare say you want to use the -r command as in:

cvs co -r dev-api-3 xvidcore

Or some such.

-h

[SirDavidGuy]

I don't think you truly grasp the totality of my idiocy in this matter.

eg. What server should I input, etc.

I haven't done any open-source work before, I really know absolutely zero about the CVS.

[-h]

Ah ok, I'll assume you have WinCVS. For a command-line checkout, use:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.xvid.org:/xvid co -R -r dev-api-3 modulename

Where modulename is xvidcore, vfw or dshow. Omit the "-R -r dev-api-3" part to checkout the stable version.

That will create directories in the working directory for each module from the cvs. There are a whole bunch of other things you can do, like get older versions or annotate it to see who wrote what line of code when, but I have no idea how to do so.

To use the GUI, open WinCVS, and choose "Checkout module..." from the "Create" menu. Enter the appropriate module name (xvidcore, vfw or dshow), and choose the local folder you want the module created in. Under the "Checkout Options" tab, you can specify the date you want to check out by, and the revision (enter dev-api-3 for dev branch). Under the "General" tab, enter "anonymous@cvs.xvid.org:/xvid" as the CVSROOT, and "passwd on the server" as the authentication. And it cant hurt to specify compression on the "Globals" tab.

That should be about it! Maybe you have to Login first, I can't remember how anonymous checkouts work.

To contribute code, you have to specify a user name other than "anonymous", however Isibaar restricted CVS write access a while back to 5 of us or so. Any new code should be sent to the xvid-devel@xvid.org mailing list.

-h

[SirDavidGuy]

Ahh, thank you, I got the code...

I may make a few contributions, once I've got some other projects worked out...