[MITgcm-support] Some questions about MITgcm

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 19:27 -0500, nkimura at cae.wisc.edu wrote:
>    Hello-
>    I am a poor beginner of MITgcm user.
>    I have some questions. When I used cvs command to updata files, your server
> rejected my access (forge.csail.mit.edu: Connection refused). What is wrong?
> because I have not registered my name on your user lists (?), cannot I connect
> the server?
>    Another question is that when I modified some subroutines by myself how I can
> protect these modified subroutines (by update, these subroutines will disappear.
> )? Could you please tell me the web page showing how to protect these files?

Hi Nobuaki,

We did just have a very brief (~15min?) network outage but, barring any
further glitches, you should have no problems accessing our CVS
repository through "pserver" mode (which only allows check-outs -- no
check-ins).  The directions are located at:

  http://mitgcm.org/source_code.html

In terms of keeping local files unmodified, it shouldn't be a big
problem.  By default, CVS will not "un-do" any of your local
modifications when you do a cvs update.  It will merely report to you
that the files have changed.  And if one of your local changes conflicts
with one of our changes, then you'll have to reconcile them yourself --
which probably isn't too hard.

So good luck and please send an email to this list if you have further
problems.

Ed

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