Getting Tiki CVS for the first time :

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki co tikiwiki

Getting the proper branch

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki login
cvs co -r release_eta_carinea_rc1 -d tiki-1.7 tiki

It will create a new directory named tiki-1.7/
Note : the name of the tag, despite it can suggest it's the rc1, is actually the name of the branch... historical mistake perpetuated...

The Available branches are release_eta_carinea_rc1, BRANCH-1-8, BRANCH-1-9 and HEAD (that last one is the default you'll have if you don't specify the branch name with the -r param).

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Getting only the parts of Tiki that have changed :

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki login

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki up -dP

Getting the docs from CVS :

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki login

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki co tiki-docs

This will create a tiki-docs/

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Bash script to update only Tiki parts that have changed :

Open your console in the directory with tiki, in my case /var/www/html. Then type :

vi tikicvs.sh

I copy pasted the text into vi. The copy part is easy ctrl +c pasting into the console is ctrl+ shift+v

#! /bin/sh
# this should do the trick
#
# Where you tikiwiki is
MYTIKI=/home/www/tikiwiki
#
CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki"
CVS_RSH=""
export CVSROOT CVS_RSH

cd $MYTIKI

cvs -d $CVROOT login
cvs -d $CVROOT up -dP

# Because you are set ENV with CVSROOT, you can just do this
# cvs up -dP

rm -fR tiki/templates_c/%%*

# Need if you don't want anonymous can install in your site
rm -f tiki-install.php

then to exit vi :

escape> :> wq enter>

Make this script an executable:

chmod a+x tikicvs.sh enter>

ls and the tikicvs.sh should be there. Then all you need to do at the root shell is

./tikicvs.sh

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