HMDC houses a legacy CVS repository, we no longer create new CVS project repos, but old repos can be accessed using the following information:
First, find out which shell you work in, from a terminal prompt type the following:
echo $SHELL
If you see tcsh, type the following:
setenv CVS_RSH ssh
Otherwise type:
export CVS_RSH=ssh
Then type the following to checkout your repo to your current directory:
cvs -d <username>@cvs.hmdc.harvard.edu:/CVS/<project> checkout <project>
Replace <project> with the name of your project and <username> with your RCE username. For example:
cvs -d kingcvs@cvs.hmdc.harvard.edu:/CVS/zelig checkout zelig
CVS clients
There are a number of CVS clients available for Windows and Mac, and they fall in and out of development on a regular basis. Mac OSX does have a CVS command line client available using "Homebrew". See the Homebrew website for more information. There may also be a number of GUI based clients available, searching using your favorite search engine should provide the most up-to-date results.