192Chapter6 • Introduction to CVS
As you can see, the fields presented map to the command line arguments that are required
in order to check out a project from a repository. In the example presented, I am checking out a
project entitled
jCVSii
from the
dev
server.
The Arguments field can be used to enter any command arguments or options that do not
have a specific entry on the form. The entry above would be equivalent to the following com-
mands:
# cd /home/lcp
# export CVSRROOT=:pserver:lcp@dev:/usr/local/cvsroot/
# cvs login
# cvs checkout jCVSii
When the checkout is complete, a project window will be presented displaying the file
structure of the project. See Figure 6-3.
The Project Window allows you full access to the entire range of CVS commands and
option. Files may be edited and committed back to the repository, the entire project may be
updated, you can view the difference between the project file and the same file in the repository,
view the project log, and even resurrect files as we did earlier with the remove and update com-
mands.
Figure6-2 Checking out a Project from a CVS Repository.