[Pw_forum] CVS information

[Jonathan Breeze]

Thank you very much for your help Paolo, I'll give it a whirl.

Paolo Giannozzi wrote:

>On Wednesday 14 January 2004 13:19, Jonathan Breeze wrote:
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>>I keep hearing about CVS and the possibility of keeping up to date with
>>most recent versions of the code.
>>What do I need to do in order to take advantage of CVS ???
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>see the file README.cvs (attached) that comes with the PWscf distribution.
>CVS tutorial: http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/cvs-tut/ . A few notes on what
>can happen when you update:
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>Update to the latest release: "cvs update"
>You should get lines looking like
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>>cvs server: Updating Modules
>>P Modules/Makefile
>>U Modules/control_flags.f90
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>where P means "patched", U means "Updated" (a new file is added); or
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>>M PW/Makefile
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>where M means locally modified wrt the CVS repository version; or
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>>? CPV/intel.pcl
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>meaning that cvs knows nothing about such file; or
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>>cvs server: FPMD/control_flags.f90 is no longer in the repository
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>meaning that these files are no longer in the repository; but no lines like
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>>C Somedir/SomeFile
>>cvs server: conflict while updating Somedir/SomeFile
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>This means that somebody else has modified the same parts of the code 
>that you have locally modified; conflicting files will contain lines like
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>>   something
>>============
>>   something else
>><<<<<<<<<<<<<
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>Paolo
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>The current (development) version is available using anonymous CVS. 
>Define environmental variables:
>   setenv CVS_RSH ssh
>   setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvsanon at democritos.sissa.it:/home/cvs
>(tcsh/csh) or
>   export CVS_RSH=ssh
>   export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvsanon at democritos.sissa.it:/home/cvs
>(sh/bash). Then:
>   cvs login
>(password: cvsanon). For the first code download:
>   cvs co O-sesame
>for the entire repository (the code appears in directory O-sesame/).
>Alternatively, "cvs co pwscf", or "cp", or "fpmd" will download only
>PWscf, CP, FPMD, respectively, in directories with the same name.
>For updating the code to the current version:
>   cvs update -d
>in the directory containing the distribution.
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>PLEASE NOTE: re-run "./configure" if files have been moved/added/removed
>since the last checkout, otherwise "make" may not work properly due to
>obsolete or missing dependencies. Do not blindly re-use a "make.sys" file
>from a preceding version: it may no longer work.
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>PLEASE ALSO NOTE: the development version may not work properly, and
>sometimes not even compile properly. Use at your own risk.
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