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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Minimal laptop</h2>
<h1>Setting up a minimal machine to work with Expo data</h1>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>You need to do this:</p>
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<li><a href="#configuration">Register an SSH key</a> with an expo nerd (i.e 'get a login').</li>
<li>Install <a href="#software">git version control software</a> to download ("clone"), view and edit caving data.</li>
<li>Clone three <a href="../manual.html#repositories">expo repositories</a> so you have the files on your machine.</li>
<li>Install survex, and therion or tunnel for editing cave data.
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<p>Once you have got this working, and if it doesn't do what you want or you don't understand how to use it,
look at the <a href="yourlaptop.html">full laptop configuration</a> for everything else.
And please <b>write some documentation for the next person</b> in your situation.
<h3>Cheat lists and quick reminders</h3>
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<li>Quick <a href="qstart-git.html">reminders for using git</a> at the command line.
<li>Quick <a href="../manual.html#quickstart">reminders for using rsync</a> at the command line.
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<h2 id="software">Software</h2>
<p>Download this software (short list):
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a> - version control system</li>
<li><a href="https://survex.com/download.html">Survex</a>, including the Aven visualisation tool.
<li><a href="https://github.com/CaveSurveying/tunnelx">Tunnel</a>: 2.5D cave drawing program based on Survex-compatible data which can also read PocketTopo files. (Generally called 'tunnel' even though the project and executable is actually 'tunnelx'.)
<li><a href="https://therion.speleo.sk/">Therion</a> - Therion processes survey data and generates maps or 3D models of caves.
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<h2 id="configuration">Configuration</h2>
<p>Follow this link to <a href="keyexchange.html">register a key with the expo server</a> to get upload (i.e. read/write) access.
Do this first, Without it none of git, mercurial, scp, ftp or rsync will work.
<p>On a Windows machine you will need to configure pageant (the putty authentication agent)
to <a href="https://blog.shvetsov.com/2010/03/making-pageant-automatically-load-keys.html">run at startup to load your key</a>.
Note that you are loading your <em>private</em> key, the .ppk file, into pageant and that this key never leaves your laptop.</p>
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<li><a href="../tortoise/tortoise-win.htm">Installing PuTTy</a>.</li>
<li><a href="winlaptop.html#hard">A Windows laptop for expo</a> - PuTTy and WSL here.</li>
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<p>When using Windows please, please be <a href="http://expo.survex.com/handbook/survey/getin.htm#filenames">excessively
careful when naming files and survex names</a> and be <a href="../manual.html#quickstart">exceptionally careful when using rsync</a>.
<h3>Learning how to use this software</h3>
<ul>
<li>Using Survex, Tunnel and Therion, see the <a href="http://expo.survex.com/handbook/survey/">Expo Handbook - Surveying section</a>.
<li>For more detailed configuration, explanations and help see the <a href="yourlaptop.html#configuration">full laptop</a> instructions
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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Git Quick</h2>
<h1>Quick Reminder - Git</h1>
<h2>Version Control Software Reminders</h2>
<p>This is NOT a tutorial. This is a set of reminders for people who already know all this stuff.
<p>Since 2019 all use of version control software requires that you
have <a href="keyexchange.html">key-pair setup</a> already set up before any of this will work on your own machine.
<p><font style="font-size: big; color:red"><b>NOT CHECKED _ TO BE EDITED BY A git NERD TO MAKE IT WORK. DO NOT DO THIS UNTIL THAT HAS BEEN DONE</b>
- check that you can get ssh working before trying to run git too</font>
<p>If you can get to the <i>expo laptop</i> try these commands on that first as the key exchange has already been done.
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<dt>expoweb (The data management system)</dt>
<dd>
<tt>git clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/expoweb</tt> (read/write)<br />
<tt>git clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/expoweb/</tt> (read-only checkout)
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<dt>troggle (The data management system backend)</dt>
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<tt>git clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/troggle</tt> (read/write)<br />
<tt>git clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/troggle/</tt> (read-only checkout)
</dd>
<dt>loser (The survey data)</dt>
<dd>
<tt>git clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/loser</tt> (read/write)<br />
<tt>git clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/loser/</tt> (read-only)
</dd>
<dt>drawings</dt>
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<tt>git clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/drawings</tt> (read/write)<br />
<tt>git clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/drawings/</tt> (read-only)
</dd>
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<h3><a id="gitwindows">Using git in Windows</a></h3>
<p>Once you've downloaded and installed a git client, the first step is to create what is called a checkout of the data management system. This creates a copy on your machine which you can edit to your heart's content. The command to initially check out ('clone') the entire expo data management system is:</p>
<p><tt>git clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/expoweb</tt></p>
<p>for subsequent updates</p>
<p><tt>git update</tt></p>
<p>will generally do the trick.</p>
<p><tt>ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/expoweb</tt></p>
<p>After you've made a change, commit it to you local copy with:</p>
<p><tt>git commit</tt> (you can specify filenames to be specific)</p>
<p>The first time you do this on a Windows machineit will probably not work as it does not recognise the server.
Fix this by running putty (downloading it from <a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/">https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</a>), and connecting to the server 'expo@expo.survex.com' (on port 22). Confirm that this is the right server.
If you succeed in getting a shell prompt then ssh connection are working and git should be able to clone the repo, and send changes back.</p>
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<tt>hg clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/loser/</tt> (read-only)
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<dt>tunneldata (The Tunnel drawings)</dt>
<dt>drawings</dt>
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<tt>hg clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/tunneldata</tt> (read/write)<br />
<tt>hg clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/expoweb/</tt> (read-only)
<tt>hg clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/drawings</tt> (read/write)<br />
<tt>hg clone http://expo.survex.com/repositories/home/expo/drawings/</tt> (read-only)
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<h3><a id="Mercurialinwindows">Using Mercurial/TortoiseHg in Windows</a></h3>
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