Setting Up A VISTA CVS Project

 

Installing the TortoiseCVS software

 

  1. You must download TortoiseCVS.   (www.tortoisecvs.org).
  2. You will need to reboot your machine for ToirtoiseCVS to be installed.
  3. After you have rebooted, CVS tools will be part of your environment. When you right click you will be offered CVS options.  The interface is much like the one used by WinZip.

 

 

Download the VISTASOFT Development Code

 

Using ToirtoiseCVS, you can check out a copy of the source code from the VISTA repository.  You will work on this checked out copy. When you are done, you will upload your copy to the shared repository using TortoiseCVS.  The CVS software will manage version differences and databasing.

 

·        Go to the directory where you want to store your local copy of the software.  For example, change into a directory C:\user\michal\Matlab,.

·        Right click on the folder.  From the options, select CVS checkout. 

·        A CVS options box (left) will appear (see figure). Fill in the fields below, not the top field.  CVS fills in the main field, at the top, for you.

·        Then example illustrates checking out mrLoadRet-3.0 from the VISTASOFT Repository. 

·        CVS will download the code you are checking out a directory named C:\user\michal\Matlab\VISTASOFT.  In the example shown, you will have a directory called mrLoadRet-3.0.   For mrVista users, you should also check out VISTASOFT\{Align,Anatomy,BrainVoyager,filters,mrFlatMesh}.

 

 



 

 

 

Adjust Your Matlab Startup

 

Ordinarily, we control our paths by adding one directory, say “C:\user\michal\paths”, to the Matlab path.  We then place path control programs (and even the startup file) in that directory.

 

In this example to use the version of the checked-out VISTASOFT software, you should have a vistaPath program such as

 

function vistaPath(rootDir)

%

 

if ~exist('rootDir','var'),  rootDir = 'c:\user\michal\Matlab\VISTASOFT\'; end

 

p = genpath(rootDir);

addpath(p);

fprintf('Adding local %s\n',rootDir);

 

return;

 

 

In your startup file include the line

 

vistaPath('c:\user\michal\Matlab\VISTASOFT\');

 

 

 

 

 

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Created 8/31/02, Wandell