1998-10-12 A GNOME Front-end to CVS A short explanation of using Pharmacy for your day-to-day CVS needs. First, one must prepare the application. FIXME: screenshot. The servers dialog contains a list of servers, aliases, working directories, and other useful information. This dialog can be reached via the main menu - Repository - Servers... "Name" is a descriptive name for the server. "CVSROOT" is the equivilant of the CVSROOT enivomental variable or the "-d" option in CVS. An example of a CVSROOT is "". "Working dir" is the directory associated for working with the server. FIXME: describe prefs dialog. The editor should contain the command needed to execute an editor that has it's own window. Good examples are "gvim -f" (the -f is very important), "gedit", "nedit", and of course "emacs". You could also try to use this area to launch a xterm with an editor running in it. FIXME: checkout screenshot "Checkout" will obtain a fresh copy of a module from the CVS server. Click the "update list" button to generate a list of valid modules. Clicking on an entry in the list box will place that value in the edit box. Type or select the module name and click "Ok" to begin the checkout of a module. A directory must be hilighted in the directory-tree for this command to be used. "Update" will patch your copy of the repository, adding and deleting files as needed. A directory must be hilighted in the directory-tree for this command to be used. Optionally, you may select files to be updated in the file-list. If no files are selected, Pharmacy updated to whole directory and, depending on the options selected, it's subdirectories. The default is to update into subdirectories. FIXME: describe update with options FIXME: cvs console screenshoot The "CVS console" is a powerful command line. Type any command into the console and press "go". The command is executed in the selected part of the directory tree. Clicking the "stop" button will cancel any command that Pharmacy can executes, that includes the command executed via menus. Want a demonstration of how powerful the console is? After grabbing the latest copy of your favorite app. Configure and make the app using the console. Useless information about Pharmacy. Reklaw (nawalker@earthlink.net) -- main author. Magick (Magick@dds.nl) -- prefs dialog. Pharmacy Home page: http://home.earthlink.net/~nawlaker/pharmacy/ Cyclic (Creators of CVS): http://www.cyclic.com/ FIXME: Add GPL here Although this booklet is quite complete, here I will mention some details I never got to. FIXME: describe cvs command line.