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CVS (cont)

To set up a repository:

export CVSROOT=/home/jas/repository;  cvs init
# or
cvs -d /home/jas/repository init

Setting $CVSROOT makes cvs commands much simpler.

The effect of init is to:

  • create a directory /home/jas/repository, if doesn't exist
  • create a CVSROOT subdirectory, containing cvs data files