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The Repository

Figure 3 below shows a typical setup of a repository. Only directories are shown below.

/usr
 |
 +--local
 |   |
 |   +--cvsroot
 |   |    | 
 |   |    +--CVSROOT
          |      (administrative files) 
          | 
          +--gnu
          |   | 
          |   +--diff
          |   |   (source code to GNU diff) 
          |   | 
          |   +--rcs
          |   |   (source code to RCS)
          |   | 
          |   +--cvs
          |       (source code to CVS) 
          | 
          +--yoyodyne
              | 
              +--tc
              |    |
              |    +--man
              |    |
              |    +--testing
              | 
              +--(other Yoyodyne software)

The $CVSROOT environment variable should always be set to an absolute path to the root of the repository, `/usr/local/cvsroot' in this example. With this setup all csh and tcsh users should have this line in their `.cshrc' or `.tcshrc' files:

setenv CVSROOT /usr/local/cvsroot

sh and bash users should instead have these lines in their `.profile' or `.bashrc':

CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsroot
export CVSROOT

There is nothing magical about the name `/usr/local/cvsroot'. You can choose to place the repository anywhere you like, but $CVSROOT must always point to it.

The repository is split in two parts. `$CVSROOT/CVSROOT' contains administrative files for CVS. The other directories contain the actual user-defined modules.

• User modules: The structure of the repository
• Intro administrative files: Defining modules
• Multiple repositories: Multiple repositories
• Creating a repository: Creating a repository

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