cvs at University of Texas

Viewing files with a Browser
- You may view individual files, and inspect differences.
Downloading a development Tree
- Unless you are sure of what the symbolic version names are, you may wish to view the repository first with a browser.
- To download say a 'gcl' tree ('maxima' would be similar) in the bash shell do:
  - ```
  bash$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.math.utexas.edu:/home/cvs/gcl
  bash$ cvs login
  (Logging in to anonymous@cvs.math.utexas.edu)
  CVS password: anonymous
  bash$
```
- Now you may do commands to take a particular version:
```
  cvs checkout -r Version2_3 gcl
       or
  cvs checkout gcl
```
  this will create a directory gcl with the CVS information in it, about which release this is. One could later do
```
  cd gcl
  cvs update -r HEAD .
```
  and the tree would be updated to match the most current files in the tree. You could then switch back to release Version2_3 by doing
```
  cd gcl
  cvs update -r Version2_3 .
```