[glug-t] Minutes of the session on 24-7-2005

I was a bit late when I reached NITT. The meeting was scheduled to
start at 9:30am, and I was there at 9:45am. Muthu, Bala, Sooraj,
Shagan and Krishnan had already arrived. Unfortunately, the A2 hall
was locked and the estate maintenance department had not sent anybody
to open it up. So we decided to use one of the classrooms. Only one of
the classrooms was open, but the power socket had some
problem. So, we decided to run my laptop on battery, the backup
time was only 2 hours...

We started the presentation on CVS, and then Karthik, Vignesh Waran 
and Ramanathan, also joined us. I started the presentation with 
the purpose of CVS, and different collaboration strategies. I then went
on to explain,

* the terminology
* accessing a repository
* importing a project into CVS
* checking out a working copy
* committing changes to CVS
* conflict resolution
* reverting changes
* adding/removing files/directories
* sticky flags
* branching and merging
* keyword substitution

I pointed them to the following places for a more detailed study
* the CVS book at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com
* the CVS info page
* the CVS cheat sheet at http://www.bravegnu.org

By the time I finished the presentation, vaishnavi's battery level was
at 9%, and I could hear her heart thumping. We couldn't continue
without a power supply. We decided to go to one of the hostel
rooms. On our way to the hostel, Muthu and Krishnan took some snaps of
the crew. When we reached the hostels, we found that they had a power 
cut!

Well, time was against us! Muthu had to drop his presentation, on
"Writing language bindings for GNU Octave". I guess it was my fault. I 
think I took out too much of the battery on CVS! But I hope it pays 
off, I hope people have understood the basic concepts of CVS, to a 
point where they will be able to learn CVS in a day or two. And I hope
this would create a community of CVS users, that can sustain itself, 
much like the the PHP community, Emacs community and the LaTeX 
community in NITT, which were also created by the GLUG-T. 

Anyways, Muthu's article on the subject is available at
http://octave-gtk.sf.net/LanguageBindings/ And my slides are availabe
at http://www.bravegnu.org/misc/cvspres/cvs.pres.html

Muthu gave out a CD of Gnome CVS checkouts and GUADEC videos. The CD I
guess is available with Vignesh Waran and Karthik. I have dumped some
CVS checkouts of openrisc simulator/binutils/gcc/uclinux in Bala's
PC. I hope the guys find them useful.

Vijay
--
Free the Code,
Free the User.

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