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Getting CVS Access On Savannah

Table of Contents

• Step 0: Anonymous CVS
• Step 1: Savannah
• Step 2: SSH
• Step 3: CVS

Step 0: Anonymous CVS

Before you get an account in Savannah and start working as a member of a translation team, you can try the anonymous CVS access to get a fresh copy of the HTML files under www.gnu.org:

    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/www co www/philosophy

But, in order to get full CVS write access, you'll have to finish the remaining steps below.

Step 1: Savannah

Start by going to http://savannah.gnu.org/ and clicking on New User via SSL (third link on the left bar).

Type in your desired login name, password (twice), full/real name, and email address, then click on Register. After a few seconds you'll see a message like this:

Savannah: New Account Registration Confirmation 
Congratulations. You have registered on Savannah.
Your new username is: your_user_name
You are now being sent a confirmation email to verify your email address.
Visiting the link sent to you in this email will activate your account.

Check your email and use the provided link to activate your new account. The link should look something like:

https://savannah.gnu.org/account/verify.php?confirm_hash=some_hex_number

This will take you to a Savannah Account Verification page where you'll have to type in the login and password you've chosen, then click on Login.

If everything went OK you'll be greeted with the following message:

Welcome to Savannah 

You are now a registered user on Savannah. 

As a registered user, you can participate fully in the activities on the site.
You may now post messages to the project message forums, post bugs for software
in Savannah, sign on as a project developer, or even start your own project. 

You should take some time to read through the site documentation so that you
may take full advantage of Savannah. 

Enjoy the site. 

--the Savannah team. 

Step 2: SSH

You are ready now for the next step, setting your ssh environment. Click on the first link under Savannah group of links, User Docs (FAQ) to learn how to configure the SSH access.

Step 3: CVS

CVS will let you get and maintain a synchronized copy of the content of www.gnu.org on your own computer.

First make sure you have cvs installed. If you don't have it, you can get it from CVS HOME. For now, I'll assume you already have cvs installed somewhere.

Create a new directory and change directory there, then issue the following command (replace with your own login):

    cvs -z3 -dyour_login@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/www co www/philosophy

You might have to also type in you passphrase. If you want to avoid typing in the passphrase for each cvs command, use the ssh-agent program to handle the authentication process for you.

That's it. Replace philosophy with another directory name to retrieve its content.

Congratulations, you now have read access from www.gnu.ors's CVS repository. For write access, ask the translation teams coordinator for permission.