CS169 CVS Setup

Setup SSH2 public key

To gain access to the CVS group accounts, you need to create a ssh2 public/private key pair. This should be done automatically first time you login to your class account. To verify this has taken place, the public key should be '~/.ssh2/$USER.pub', where $USER is your class account login. If you don't have a public key setup, you can run 'ssh-keygen2 -b 1024 ~/.ssh2/$USER' to create a ssh2 key. Once you have done this, you should email the TA to have him setup access to your account

Setting up Group Account

CVS for CS169 is setup through group accounts. To find your group number, look at the Group Page. Then, use 'cvsgroup cs169-gN' to access the CVS group on the instructional machines, where N is your group number.

Creating a repository

After you have setup the group account, then you can run 'cvs init' to setup your repository. You only need to do this once and only once per group.

Access your repository

Once you have setup your repository, you can use 'cvs import' to initially import your files. Then you can use 'cvs add', 'cvs checkout', and other cvs commands.

For more information on this entire process, you can consult the cvs help file.