On Tuesday 30 August 2005 23:39, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a > tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program > seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to > recover almost all my work after a crash). > > I would like to import the project into cervisia, so that I can maintain > it via cvs and perform some kind of version control on the website, but > I don't know how to set this up. > > Opening the project from Quanta and clicking on the cvs icon simply > returns the error > > "This is not a CVS folder" > > I get a similar error when I try to open any folder from within > konqueror. From konqueror, I can then go through a cycle of creating a > project via cervisia, but next time I try to open that project from > within konqueror, I get the same "This is not a CVS folder" error - back > to square one :-/ > > It seems that the first hurdle I need to get over is "How do you create > a CVS folder?" > > Can anybody help me with this? > First you need to create a CVS repository containing the existing Quanta project, using cvs import. Then checkout that repository somewhere with cvs checkout. Finally use the newly checked out copy as the Quanta project. However it sounds to me as though you first need to learn something about CVS. There are many tutorials on the web, e.g. which is targetted at people using Cervisia, or which is a more general purpose tutorial. Steve -- ____________________________________________________________________ Steve Evans E-mail: mailto:stevee@gorbag.com WEB: http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html ____________________________________________________________________ 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux 00:05:13 up 13 days, 15:52, 8 users, load average: 0.15, 0.14, 0.09 Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. -- Ambrose Bierce