Setup subversion client programs

Download a suitable graphical client: Versions.app, svnX program or RapidSVN. The commandline client program is part of the system if you have installed the developer tools (XCode - included on your installation CD). You may still want to install a newer version if you are using MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard), though. MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) has a pretty recent version of the command-line tool.

Download and install TortoiseSVN or RapidSVN.

To install the commandline version of subversion, issue either the command sudo apt-get install subversion or sudo yum install subversion

There are at least two alternatives if you want a graphical user interface, kdesvn and rapidsvn. Under Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install rapidsvn or sudo apt-get install rapidsvn

Under Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat sudo yum install rapidsvn or sudo yum install kdesvn.

To make CVS commit mailings work, one has to edit the file CVSROOT/loginfo. It should already be set-up correctly, but for the sake of documentation and understanding, it is repeated here:

^gt          mail -s %s samicvs
^kt          mail -s %s samicvs
^st          mail -s %s samicvs
^termdb      mail -s %s samicvs
^xtdoc       mail -s %s samicvs

After that file is created/modified, we need to ensure that the mail alias samicvs is working by editing /etc/aliases. At the bottom of that file, that alias is defined as follows:

samicvs: trond,boerre,sjur,tomi

More names can and will be added when we see that it works, and all has been informed. When the alias is changed, or a new one created, one has to run the command newaliases as root or superuser. Then all mail to the alias samicvs will be forwarded to the local users listed.

Finally, to forward your e-mail to your regular account, create the following file in your home directory: .forward, containing only the mail address of the account you want to receive commit mails on. Remember to add a linefeed at the end (that is, type return). For this forward file to work correctly, it has to have correct permissions, which you ensure with the following command:

chmod 644 .forward

That's it! Now we should all get an e-mail each time someone commits a file. Hint: as the amount of e-mail this generates can be quite high, it is advisable to create a filter in your mail application that will put all cvs and Bugzilla e-mails in a dedicated folder.