[wp-hackers] 1.3 CVS

[Owen Winkler]

I'm not crazy about Tortoise or any other GUI CVS for Windows that I've 
seen.  Good old command line works just fine for me, and makes it 
possible to follow the *nix instructions for CVS checkout.  For that 
reason, I've written out these instructions for command-line CVS on Windows.

Go here to download a GPL Windows command line CVS (deep link):
https://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=83&expandFolder=83&folderID=0

Download the file with the .zip extension marked "Stable", whose size is 
~350kb.

 From the archive, copy the cvs.exe file to your path (try C:\Windows). 
  You've now got a working command-line CVS.

Using the instructions at http://wordpress.org/download/, use the 
following command at a command prompt to check out an anonymous copy of 
WordPress to the current directory:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cafelog co wordpress

The instructions at http://wiki.wordpress.org/CVSHowTo explain how to 
use command-line options to generate a patch, if you're so inclined.  I 
mention this because the instructions as-written apply only to 
command-line CVS, and not to any of the CVS GUIs that are suggested for 
use on Windows.

Owen

Ps-Feel free to steal this for codex if needed.