Re: New to WinCvs, Can't get it to work.

Dan Violet Palmer wrote:
> I used to use WinCvs back around 2000 I think.  but now, I tried setting
> it up, reviewing all the instructions online, which seem more to tell me
> how it doesn't work than how it does.
> 
> I installed the WinCVS/CVS NT from the download off the main site, about
> a week ago.  I can see the list of my files, but I can't seem to figure
> out how to get it to start operating as a source control.  I can't
> submit/add, and In my experiments, I did get it to offer me these
> options before, but it would always fail.  I'd really like to get this
> working.
> 
> Is there a short and simple guide somewhere that just gives me an
> example of how to set this up?  Once I see a good example of a complete
> install, and setup, I can do it, and alter it as I need to.

Sounds like you are just browsing your local file directories.  To use 
as a CVS client, you first need to check out from a (usually remote) 
repository.

-- 
Guy Rouillier


 
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