How do I get CVS access?
Christopher Brooks, 13 Oct 2007
Last updated: 21 Sep 2009

Many of the workgroups on this website have a corresponding cvs repository on source.eecs.berkeley.edu. There are also a few cvs repositories not associated with workgroups.

How to get access to a CVS repository

1. Request a website account in chess: http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/chess/request
2. Request a cvs account: http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/options
   Note that two separate accounts are required, a workgroup account and a cvs account.
   If you have a UC Berkeley EECS account, then your user name on source.eecs.berkeley.edu will be the same as your EECS account name.
3. To check it out under bash, use:

   export CVS_RSH=ssh
   cvs -d :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_chess co yourrepositoryname
   

Resources

• ptexternal - how to get read-only or read/write access to the Ptolemy II tree.
• How does the main page get updated?
• How do I edit pages in a group with the "CVS Authoring" option?
• GSRC CVS FAQ - including info about CVS clients such as Tortoise CVS.