CvsRepository

You can browse our code by going to https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/dir, but to download it onto your own computer and start work, you'll need access to our CVS repository. There is a public CVS repository available via the "pserver" protocol from cvs.mysociety.org:/repos, with username "anonymous" and a password of "anonymous". So you should set CVSROOT to,

  :pserver:anonymous@cvs.mysociety.org:/repos

Here's how to get at it using the command-line CVS tools:

  CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mysociety.org:/repos
  export CVSROOT
  cvs login # enter "anonymous" (without the quote-marks) when prompted
  cvs co mysociety # this will get you everything

You won't be able to commit changes to that repository, though -- it's an up-to-date but read-only copy of our real repository. If you have code to submit, then either

1. send us a patch (ideally as a unified diff against current CVS -- use "cvs diff -u"); or

2. ask us and we'll give you write access to our real repository.

If you need a CVS client and you're running Windows, you might want to consider using TortoiseCVS.