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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I could use this CVS tutorial also Laura!
Though I keep hearing about this subversive sounding SVN thing too.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hehehe, I hate remembering that far back…to
think that some of us used to connect to our computers using DECwriters at 300
baud makes me wonder why I ever wanted to take a computer science course in the
first place</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> Oh wait, I didn’t use it for a CS course. I used
it to play DECWAR! We used punch cards for our programming.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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href="http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html">http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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color:windowtext'> documentation-bounces@drupal.org
[mailto:documentation-bounces@drupal.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Laura Scott<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 19, 2006
4:26 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> A list for documentation
writers<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [documentation] A
would-be developer requests "CVS for Dummies"</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I try to be as
much a part of the Drupal community as I can. I've been contributing php
snippets, offering support comments in the forums and filing issues whenever I
discover them. I've commented on handbook pages to clarify things or answer
questions when I could. <br>
<br>
Now I'd really like to get my CVS account working so that I can actually
contribute themes. However, CVS completely mystifies me.<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>My story:</span></b> Before my iMac crashed,
I managed to follow the handbook instructions for CVL and log in and download
about 10% of the CVS projects before it all just stopped. (I got projects from
A-C.) I had no idea what went wrong. And while I could point my BBEdit to the
local CVS folder I had set up, I had no idea how it all integrated.<br>
<br>
Now, with the iMac in the shop getting a brain transplant, I'm on my powerbook,
starting over. I have OSX Tiger. I have CVL installed. I'm not sure about the
developer tools requirements, but I can figure that out.<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Back to the point:</span></b> But what I need
-- and what I am asking for here with great humility and earnestness -- is a
good, basic overview of what the hell CVS is and how it works. I don't want
just nuts-and-bolts, though that would help. But what I need is the big picture
-- a flow chart, an introduction to the concepts that makes it all fit
together.<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Aside:</span></i></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> I never understood geometry until I took calculus,
where my professor took us through the circle diagrams of what sine, cosine and
tangent were about. Suddenly all the "rules of thumb" added up and it
made sense. This is the kind of big picture I'm asking for here.</span></i><br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>The request:</span></b> If someone who feels
up to the task could devote an hour or two to composing a good, basic overview
of CVS and its concepts, I believe not only would I benefit, but many many
people who have been blocked by the CVS requirement, and thus are not
contributing as much as they might, could benefit as well.<br>
<br>
And thus the Drupal development community would benefit.<br>
<br>
Not all of us took computer programming when CVS existed. (For me, I took
computer programming when printers smaller than washing machines were
dot-matrix, when it was when it was a radical act to write a paper on computer
-- the university mainframe where you had to code all your page formatting
in-line like hand-coding html today. I won't volunteer a year, thank you.) Just
a good clear picture that could help the grokking of how CVS works would be
immensely helpful to me and, I suspect, many others.<br>
<br>
A humble suggestion/request from Laura. Thank you.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>-- <br>
Laura Scott<br>
<a href="mailto:laura@pingv.com">laura@pingv.com</a><br>
<a href="http://pingv.com">pingVision</a><br>
<a href="http://rarepattern.com">rare pattern</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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