--- mitgcm.org/scripts/daily_tarfile	2009/07/10 00:27:16	1.2
+++ mitgcm.org/scripts/daily_tarfile	2016/12/08 14:35:27	1.6
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env bash
 
-# $Header: /home/ubuntu/mnt/e9_copy/mitgcm.org/scripts/daily_tarfile,v 1.2 2009/07/10 00:27:16 jmc Exp $
+# $Header: /home/ubuntu/mnt/e9_copy/mitgcm.org/scripts/daily_tarfile,v 1.6 2016/12/08 14:35:27 jmc Exp $
 
 # download the source code and make a tar file
 
-export CVSROOT=/u/gcmpack
+#export CVSROOT=/u/gcmpack
+#- to allow users to use cvs update/diff on their untar version of the code,
+#  switch to pserver method (stored everywhere in the tree in dirs CVS/Root)
+export CVSROOT=':pserver:cvsanon@mitgcm.org:/u/gcmpack'
 
 umask 0002
 
@@ -18,7 +21,7 @@
 test -e MITgcm  &&  rm -rf MITgcm
 
 echo 'Checking out MITgcm...'
-cvs co -P MITgcm > /dev/null 2>&1
+cvs co -P MITgcm > /dev/null
 #chgrp gcmpack MITgcm
 #chmod 775 MITgcm
 
@@ -34,9 +37,9 @@
 #-- test for new checkpoint
 cd ..
 version_file="daily_snapshot/MITgcm/doc/tag-index"
-backupDir="other_checkpoints" 
+backupDir="other_checkpoints"
 if test -f $version_file ; then
-    thischkpt=`grep '^checkpoint' $version_file | head -1`
+    thischkpt=`awk '/^checkpoint/{print $1; exit}' $version_file`
     short=`echo $thischkpt | sed 's/checkpoint/c/'`
     chkptar="MITgcm_$short"
     if test -f $chkptar.tar.gz ; then
@@ -70,7 +73,7 @@
         for xx in $listTar ; do
           if test $xx != $chkptar.tar.gz ; then
             if test -f other_checkpoints/$xx ; then
-              echo "error: $backupDir/$xx already exist" 
+              echo "error: $backupDir/$xx already exist"
             else
               echo " mv $xx $backupDir"
               mv $xx $backupDir