B. Initializing a CVS Repository
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B. Initializing your CVS Server


Assuming you have the CVS binaries on your GNU/Linux box, you will need to create a repository before you can save revisions.

The command is cvs -d /usr/local/cvsrepos init

(Note: "/usr/local/cvsrepos" can be any legitimate path)

Once this command has been run, there will be a CVSROOT folder under the cvsrepos folder with administration files in it.

As usual, a silent return means it ran okay. There should now be a cvsrepos folder and under that there is a CVSROOT folder which contains a full set of administrative files used for running CVS.

You can make multiple repositories, each of which contain multiple projects