MudMagic Client CVS

You can use the MudMagic CVS repository as an anonymous user, or as a developer.

You will need a CVS client, if you don't already have one. CVS should be installed with most modern Linux distributions, easily available on *BSD systems, and there are clients for Win32, MacOS, and GUI clients for the Unices. A number of them are available at http://www.cvshome.org/.

These command lines should be the bare-bones needed to get you started with MudMagic client and CVS; this is not a CVS tutorial, however. The standard CVS documentation is available here, and there are many HOWTOs available on the web.

Anonymous CVS

Anonymous CVS access is available using pserver. To log in to the server, use the following commands:

sh, ksh, bash, zsh:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@mudmagic.com:/cvs/mudmagic

csh, tcsh:

setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anonymous@mudmagic.com:/cvs/mudmagic

then for all:

cvs login
 (password: 'mudmagic')

In order to reduce the load on our anonymous CVS server, and to promote fairness amongst users who retrieve our source code via anonymous CVS, each client host is limited to a maximum of four connections a minute. The server supports a maximum of eight anonymous CVS connections simultaneously.

Developer CVS

Write access to the live CVS tree is available for dedicated and contracted developers. contact MudMagic if you require direct developer commit access. For most developers however, posting your Patch is suffice.

Checking code out

Once you have performed the steps above, and you are sure the CVSROOT environment variable is set correctly, you can check out a module from CVS with this command:

This will create a mudmagic_client directory in your current directory. It may take a bit of time, especially if your network connection is slow or the module is an espeicially large one. But once it is done, you will have an up to date copy of the master CVS source for that module. You can then at any time cd into this directory and type:

to update your source tree to be in sync with the master tree. (The -P means to prune empty directories, and -d makes sure that you get new directories which have been added to the repository since your last update/checkout).

How to Create a patch.