Difference between revisions of "CVS Commit Access"
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Then, to check out a module from CVS (i.e., download a local copy from the server): |
Then, to check out a module from CVS (i.e., download a local copy from the server): |
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After modifying the local files you checked out, you can commit the changes (i.e., write them to the remote server) using: |
After modifying the local files you checked out, you can commit the changes (i.e., write them to the remote server) using: |
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+ | cvs -dA :ext:user_name@cvs.webwork.rochester.edu:/webwork/cvs/<b><i>repository_name</i></b> update <b><i>module_name</i></b> |
+ | cvs -dA :ext:user_name@cvs.webwork.rochester.edu:/webwork/cvs/<b><i>repository_name</i></b> commit <b><i>module_name</i></b> |
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=== Avoiding typing your password === |
=== Avoiding typing your password === |
Revision as of 22:20, 21 April 2010
If you are a WeBWorK developer, you can get an account on devel.webwork.rochester.edu
to allow you commit access to CVS. Mail root@devel.webwork.rochester.edu for an account.
If you are doing development on devel
itself
In this case, access the CVS repository locally. To check out a module from CVS:
cvs -d /webwork/cvs/repository_name checkout module_name
Replace repository_name and module_name with values from the article List of CVS repositories hosted by The WeBWorK Project.
If you are doing development on another machine
In this case, access the CVS repository over SSH.
First set the environment variable CVS_RSH
to ssh
. In bash, type export CVS_RSH=ssh
. In tcsh, type setenv CVS_RSH ssh
. Since you need this variable set whenever you want to use the WeBWorK CVS repositories, you might want to add the command to your .bashrc
or .cshrc
file (depending on your shell).
Then, to check out a module from CVS (i.e., download a local copy from the server):
cvs -dA :ext:user_name@cvs.webwork.rochester.edu:/webwork/cvs/repository_name checkout module_name
After modifying the local files you checked out, you can commit the changes (i.e., write them to the remote server) using:
cvs -dA :ext:user_name@cvs.webwork.rochester.edu:/webwork/cvs/repository_name update module_name cvs -dA :ext:user_name@cvs.webwork.rochester.edu:/webwork/cvs/repository_name commit module_name
Avoiding typing your password
When you use CVS remotely, you will have to type the password for your account on devel
every time you issue a CVS command. This can get quite annoying. To avoid this, you can set up public-key SSH authentication.
Public-key SSH authentication will allow you to make SSH connections from one computer to another without ever sending a password across the network. You generate a pair of mathematically related keys, and keep one secret, while making the other one available to the server you wish to connect to.
First, generate the key pair (on the machine from which you'll be connecting):
ssh-keygen -t dsa
the default answers will be fine at each of the prompts. Leave the password prompts blank).
Then, add the key to your account on devel
:
cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user_name@devel.webwork.rochester.edu 'mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'
Some versions of OpenSSH come with a utility called ssh-copy-id
which makes this task somewhat easier:
ssh-copy-id user_name@devel.webwork.rochester.edu