Tuesday, April 28, 2009

CVS checking out behind webproxy

CVS is not a minor version control, yet. Especially for old projects like emacs still use CVS. One of my co-worker had hard time checking out emacs since our firewall blocks most of outgoing traffic. Luckily we have a web-proxy. Use this command.

cvs -z3 "-d:pserver;proxy=PROXY_SERVER;proxyport=PROXY_PORT:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs" co emacs