I think OS X’s preinstalled version of CVS is a bit dodgy. Today I was following the instructions on how to connect to the Drupal CVS repo, but I was getting this error:
fintan drupal_cvs$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:fintan@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib
fintan drupal_cvs$ cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:fintan@cvs.drupal.org:2401/cvs/drupal-contrib
CVS password:
cvs login: warning: failed to open /Users/fintan/.cvspass for reading: No such file or directory
It turns out that you need to do it all as one command, like this:
cvs -d:pserver:fintan@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib login
…and it’ll work just fine.
Indeed, this will actually work for any pserver you’re trying to connect to with CVS.
Hi!
Hints?
Helpful! I’ve never used cvs before, but would like to be able to log in to drupal-contrib from my mac. Now, I try with “cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib login”, and enter “anonymous” as password….but nothing really happens. The handbook page tells me to just cd into the right directory, but I’m still on my local drive