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Raymond Toy wrote:
>Stavros Macrakis wrote:
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>>Can someone out there help me get CVS working with Emacs? I have some
>>very basic questions (where do I put the SSH key?) and some more
>>advanced ones (like how do I put in a small patch to the current CVS
>>version without losing the more extensive but untested mods I'm
>>making, etc. etc.).
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>>I have been using TortoiseCVS for simple stuff, but it doesn't seem to
>>be sufficient....
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>>(Details: running CVS 1.11.6 under Cygwin on Windows 2000; Emacs 21.2.1)
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>I don't use Windows, so the following may not apply. However, if you're
>running cygwin, perhaps it will help.
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>I normally use pcl-cvs to with XEmacs (but should work on Emacs).
>However, pcl-cvs is apparently orphaned now. I use M-x cvs-update, and
>specify the maxima directory to start with. VC, which is still
>supported, should work. See the info files for how to work with pcl-cvs
>and vc. If you need help, please ask.
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>To work with ssh, I put my ssh keys in ~/.ssh. cygwin should specify
>some home directory. I think you might also be able to set $HOME to
>your home directory. So that I don't have to specify my ssh key every
>time I need to access the cvs repository, I use ssh-agent and ssh-add.
>Not sure this works on cygwin or not. First, "eval `ssh-agent`". Then
>"ssh-add". You'll be prompted for you ssh password. At this point, if
>you start emacs from that window, everything will be set up so you don't
>have to specify your ssh password every time now.
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>I hope this helps a little. My apologies if these aren't applicable to
>Windows.
>
>Ray
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