Re: Welcome to gcc.gnu.org

[Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@mediaone.net>]

Hi,

This gives me access to GCC CVS, but how do I get access to GNATS?

Thanks.

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Craig Rodrigues        
http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
rodrigc@mediaone.net          

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:46:10AM -0000, root@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:
> Your account is now active, the login name is rodrigc@gcc.gnu.org.
> Mail sent to that address is forwarded to rodrigc@mediaone.net.  This
> forwarding is a convenience so that people who reply directly to CVS
> commit mail notes will not get a bounce--publicize it at your own risk.
> If your involvement with the project ends at some point, the mail address
> will become invalid and I will laugh evilly as people try in vain to
> reach you.
> 
> You should now have write access to the gcc repository with
> SSH+cvs.  Here are lots of details about how to do things.
> 
> You don't have general shell access, just CVS remote access.  Just about
> everything can be done via CVS.  If there is some special requirement
> that you have where you need shell access, talk to your project's lead
> and have them talk to overseers@gcc.gnu.org.  In special cases,
> we can be flexible on this requirement.
> 
> 
> 
> CVS  CVS is used for revision control.  If you are not familiar with CVS,
>      you have some reading to do.  http://www.cyclic.com/ is the central
>      source for all things CVS.  http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/info.html has
>      various information.  I don't see any simple introductions on using
>      CVS, so ask if you have questions.  The most important thing is this:
>      When you want to do a check-in of some change, do it like this:
> 
>      % cvs update
>      % cvs diff      # carefully verify what you're about to check in!
>      % cvs commit
> 
>      All of the sources are under CVS.  You have write access to the
>      files in your repository.  Check them out like this:
> 
>      export CVS_RSH=ssh
>      cvs -z9 -d :ext:rodrigc@gcc.gnu.org:/cvs/gcc co gcc
> 
>      After you've checked out some files, you won't need to specify the
>      CVSROOT (-d) again, it will be picked out of the CVS control files
>      (the CVS/Root file).  You will need to include the -z9; you can put
>      it in your $HOME/.cvsrc file ("cvs -z9") or add it to your command
>      line whenever you're doing CVS operations.
> 
>      If you're going over a modem, you'll definitely want to get this
>      as compressed as possible.
> 
>      To avoid the nuisance of having to supply your passphrase for each
>      operation, you may want to use ssh-agent(1) followed by ssh-add(1)
>      and entering your passphrase once for all.  Either start your
>      session as a child of ssh-agent or run it as a demon and set the
>      values of the environment variables SSH_AUTHENTICATION_SOCKET and
>      SSH_AGENT_PID in each relevant process to what ssh-agent prints
>      when it starts.  To avoid messages about (lack of) X11 forwarding,
>      put in your $HOME/.ssh/config and entry like:
> 
>         Host gcc.gnu.org
>         ForwardX11 no 
> 
> CVS COMMIT MESSAGES
>      You can get e-mail notifications for when things are checked in to
>      your group's repository.  There are two notification mailing lists,
>      one for the web pages for your project and one for the project
>      source files.  To subscribe to your source-file-notification list,
>      send a message to
> 
>          gcc-cvs-subscribe@gcc.gnu.org
> 
>      To get on a digest of the above list (get one note a day), send a 
>      note to 
> 
>          gcc-cvs-digest-subscribe@gcc.gnu.org
> 
>      The body/Subject are ignored in these messages.  The From: address
>      is the one you a requesting to subscribe.  To request an arbitrary
>      address be subscribed, say foo@bar.com, send a note like this:
> 
>          gcc-cvs-subscribe-foo=bar.com@gcc.gnu.org
> 
>      If your project has a web page, then there is a second mailing
>      list for notifications about changes to them.  The addresses are
>      just like the above ones except they include "-webpages" after the
>      project name.  For instance,
> 
>          gcc-webpages-cvs-digest-subscribe@gcc.gnu.org
> 
> 
>      If this is all a little confusing, just use the all-doing 
>      auto-subscriber at
>         http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/lists.html#faqs
> 
> CVSWEB You can browse changes that are being made to the CVS repository by
>      going to
> 
> 	http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc?cvsroot=gcc
> 
> HTTP All of the web pages on http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc/ are
>      also under CVS.  You can create a home page (if one doesn\'t already
>      exist) for gcc by putting files in the htdocs/ directory of
>      your CVS repository.  They will appear instantly (within three or
>      four seconds, anyway) at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc/
> 
> If anything is unanswered, please ask.