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====== CVS on Windows ====== | ====== CVS on Windows ====== | ||
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+ | **Since moving away from Sourceforge, | ||
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===== What is CVS? ===== | ===== What is CVS? ===== | ||
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==== Checking out the latest POPFile ==== | ==== Checking out the latest POPFile ==== | ||
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Once you have found and/or created a directory to store the CVS version, fire up windows explorer and right-click the entry for that folder. From the context menu choose "CVS Checkout..." | Once you have found and/or created a directory to store the CVS version, fire up windows explorer and right-click the entry for that folder. From the context menu choose "CVS Checkout..." | ||
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Some people tweak POPFile according to their needs. But what if a new version of POPFile is released? Are they supposed to install the latest version and then make all those changes again? Not with CVS! Instead of using the installer or zip file, use CVS to download a certain version as described above. Make your changes and enjoy. | Some people tweak POPFile according to their needs. But what if a new version of POPFile is released? Are they supposed to install the latest version and then make all those changes again? Not with CVS! Instead of using the installer or zip file, use CVS to download a certain version as described above. Make your changes and enjoy. | ||
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If a new version of POPFile is released, wait until John has tagged the CVS files as belonging to that version and until the SourceForge CVS servers have those files ready. Then, to update to the new POPFile release while keeping your changes, perform the following steps: | If a new version of POPFile is released, wait until John has tagged the CVS files as belonging to that version and until the SourceForge CVS servers have those files ready. Then, to update to the new POPFile release while keeping your changes, perform the following steps: | ||
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In the last screen shot you can see that Tortoise updated the " | In the last screen shot you can see that Tortoise updated the " | ||
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