To connect TortoiseCVS to Fedora Translation Project CVS repository, first set up the environment. Perform these steps only once.
Right-click in Windows Explorer, choose CVS → Preferences... as shown in Figure 13, “Setup Preferences”.
In the Preferences popup window,
click the Tools tab. Add the parameter
-i as shown in Figure 14, “TortoiseCVS Preferences Window - Tools”.
<Your Private
Key><Your Private Key> is the
file containing the private key you generated and saved on
your computer. Its corresponding public key has been used to
apply the Fedora account in Figure 10, “Account Sign up Screen”.
Set up Network compression, as shown in
Figure 15, “TortoiseCVS Preferences Window - Advanced”, to effectively speed up the
checkout process. Set 9 - Best for
best compression if you have a powerful CPU.
Press OK when you're done. Now you are ready to download files from the Fedora server.
To download files from the Fedora server for the first time, you
must tell TortoiseCVS where to find
them. This procedure only needs to be done once. The required
information is in the email you received when your account was
activated. When referring to the following example, remember to
change snowlet into your own username.
Right click in Windows Explorer, and choose CVS checkout, as shown in Figure 16, “CVS Checkout Menu”.
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Sometimes the CVS checkout menu
does not appear. Try to perform this action in the
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Locate the CVSROOT in the email you
received during account setup. The information in Figure 17, “CVS Root and Module” is for your reference
only. Remember to change the User name:
field to match your own account. The module for Fedora
translation is translate.
Press OK to display the dialog shown in Figure 18, “TortoisePlink”.
TortoiseCVS tries to connect to the Fedora CVS repository to retrieve all the files needed. The passphrase of your private key is required to proceed. Press OK after you input the passphrase.
TortoiseCVS downloads the files from the Fedora server, as shown in Figure 19, “Checking out Files”. Downloading may take some time to complete.
Locate the folder called translate that
contains all the files for different locales and packages,
as shown in Figure 20, “"translate" Folder”.
To edit these files, you can use a plain text editor such as Notepad, or specialised PO file editors, such as poEdit. The following section discusses this tool.
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