morphir's CVS guide for Drupal part 1

If you are new to CVS and Drupal, and if you prefer(as me) to use command line(bash) instead of GUI based CVS programs.
Then this guide is for you!

There are basicly 5 stages:

make sure CVS is installed. just type CVS. If not, install cvs by typing(in ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install cvs

Red Hat based systems:

su yum install cvs

Note! my local servers document root is set to /home/morphir/www

So in my terminal, I'll do:

cd www ..or wherever your document root is..

then I'll download HEAD with this command(as anonymous):

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -d HEAD drupal

this will create a HEAD directory with all the containing drupal files on your document root.

.... then edit your file, using your favourite editor ...

.... save and exit ...

then we will make a .patch in the same directory as the edited file is located:

cd directory/edited.file

cvs diff -up edited.file > filename-descriptive-change.patch

Now you have created the patch. You apply the patch through your web browser.

Login to drupal.org and create an new issue. Upload the newly created filename-descriptive-change.patch with additional
descreption.

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