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Re: Please mention the CVS parameter has changed in the web page
> Some issues I noticed: Please do not link to any SSH implementation
> and use the term "SSH2 protocol". (In fact, I'd simply omit that --
> hardly any client these days does not support SSH2, so this may
> confuse more users than it helps.)
>
> The update of the page you refer to happened in January this year.
>
> Both items 3 and 4 are optional, in the sense that one doesn't need to
> do 3 to do 4. I suggest to merge these two items and use the original
> wording (or something like that).
Jerry,
Does this version address your concerns?
KC
2004-01-21 Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
* cvs.html: Update savannah checkout instructions.
*** cvs.html.orig Wed Jan 21 08:49:25 2004
--- cvs.html Wed Jan 21 11:42:09 2004
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*** 28,47 ****
<h2>Using the CVS repository</h2>
! <p>Assuming you have <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a> installed,
! you can check out the GCC sources as follows:</p>
! <p>Set CVSROOT in your environment to
! <code>:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc</code>.
! Alternately add
! <code>-d :ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc</code>
! immediately after <code>cvs</code> in the commands below.</p>
! <p>Issue the command </p>
! <blockquote><p><code>cvs -z 9 co -P gcc</code></p></blockquote>
! to check out the compiler sources, and
! <blockquote><p><code>cvs -z 9 co -P wwwdocs</code></p></blockquote>
! <p>to check out our web pages, respectively.</p>
<p>In case of problems with the repository at savannah.gnu.org please
contact savannah-hackers@gnu.org.</p>
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<h2>Using the CVS repository</h2>
! <p><b>In January 2004, these instructions were modified to reflect security
! changes implemented after an attack on the Free Software Foundation's
! site.</b></p>
! <p>Assuming you have both <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a>
! and SSH installed, you can check out the GCC sources as follows:</p>
! <ol type="i">
! <li>Set CVS_RSH in your environment to <code>ssh</code>.</li>
! <li>Set CVSROOT in your environment to
! <code>:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc</code>.
! Alternately add
! <code>-d :ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc</code>
! immediately after <code>cvs</code> in the commands below.</li>
! <li>Issue the command <code>cvs -qz9 checkout -P gcc wwwdocs</code>,
! will check out both modules in our cvs repository.
! Module <code>gcc</code> is the compilier source while module
! <code>wwwdocs</code> contains the sources for our web pages.</li>
! </ol>
<p>In case of problems with the repository at savannah.gnu.org please
contact savannah-hackers@gnu.org.</p>