Nico Schottelius
unix.schottelius.org
cinit

cinit

using monotone

Monotone is a cvs successor. You have to retrieve the collection "info.clinux.cinit" from "monotone.schottelius.org" (not unix.schottelius.org anymore!). You can get the public server key from here.

Monotone - get (aka "pull")

Here's a small manual howto get cinit via monotone:

# create a database
scice% monotone --db=cinit.db db init 

# get the server key
scice% wget -q  http://unix.schottelius.org/gpm/server-key.pub 

# read the server key
scice% monotone --db=cinit.db read < server-key.pub
monotone: read 1 packet

# do an anonymous pull
scice% monotone --key="" --db=cinit.db pull monotone.schottelius.org info.clinux.cinit
monotone: warning: doing anonymous pull
monotone: rebuilding merkle trees for collection info.clinux.cinit
monotone: connecting to monotone.schottelius.org
monotone: [bytes in: 722110] [bytes out: 7405] 
monotone: exchanged goodbyes and flushed output on fd 7 (peer monotone.schottelius.org), disconnecting

# extract source from the database to a directory
scice% monotone --db=cinit.db --branch=info.clinux.cinit checkout your-destination-directory                                           
monotone: fetching heads of branch 'info.clinux.cinit'

How to change files (aka "push")

I assume you've got a database initialised (see above).

# generate a key pair
scice% monotone -db=cinit.db genkey you@example.com
monotone: generating key-pair 'you@example.com'
Enter password: 
Confirm password: 
monotone: storing key-pair 'you@example.com' in database

# extract the key from the database
scice% monotone --db=cinit.db pubkey you@example.com > you@example.com.pubkey

For more information visit monotone's homepage, it has excellent documentation!