Jeremy Epstein wrote:
On Apr 5, 2005 1:54 AM, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon@prwatch.org> wrote:
Based on my experience, I would recommend revising the contributor's guide so it doesn't advise Macintosh users to use CVL. Since I don't use Windows, I don't know whether continuing to recommend TortoiseCVS is a good idea, ...
I'm a full-time Windows user (and ashamed of it, as I should be), so I followed the advice in the Drupal handbook, and used TortoiseCVS to access the repository. ...
When I got my CVS contrib account, I tried using TortoiseCVS to make my first commit. ...
I would advise all my fellow newbie-contributors to do the same thing: only make commits using command-line CVS! Especially since the handbook (to date) only has instructions for making commits using the command-line utility.
Let me offer a counterpoint. I don't use CVS in my day-to-day work (I much prefer the commercial software Perforce), so my goal is to learn as little CVS as possible to download Drupal and make my occasional contributions back. In the year and half that I've been involved with the Drupal project, every single CVS update *and commit* that I've made against the Drupal CVS server has been made with TortoiseCVS. As far as I can tell, they've always had exactly the effect I had intended. My work has shifted lately from Windows to Mac, but I continue to come back to Windows specifically for my downloads and uploads with Tortoise. Highly recommended. -Eric