CVSINIT
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 1996/01/20
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NAME
cvsinit - Concurrent Versions System repository initialization script
SYNOPSIS
- cvsinit
-
DESCRIPTION
The
cvsinit
script initializes a repository in the location specified by the
CVSROOT
environment variable.
FILES
For more detailed information on
cvs
supporting files, see
cvs(5).
Files in source repositories (created by
cvsinit):
- $CVSROOT/CVSROOT
-
Directory of global administrative files for repository.
- $CVSROOT/commitinfo,v
-
Records programs for filtering
requests.
- $CVSROOT/history
-
Log file of cvs transactions.
- $CVSROOT/modules,v
-
Definitions for modules in this repository.
- $CVSROOT/loginfo,v
-
Records programs for piping
log entries.
- $CVSROOT/rcsinfo,v
-
Records pathnames to templates used during a
operation.
- $CVSROOT/editinfo,v
-
Records programs for editing/validating
log entries.
- $CVSROOT/log
-
Sample logging script for use in
loginfo.
- $CVSROOT/commit_prep
-
Sample logging script for use in
commitinfo
with the
log_accum
script
- $CVSROOT/log_accum
-
Sample loggin script for use in
loginfo
with the
commit_prep
script
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- CVSROOT
-
Should contain the full pathname to the root of the
cvs
source repository (where the
RCS
files are kept). This information must be available to cvs for
most commands to execute; if
CVSROOT
is not set, or if you wish to override it for one invocation, you can
supply it on the command line:
You may not need to set
CVSROOT
if your cvs binary has the right path compiled in; use
to display all compiled-in paths.
AUTHORS
- Dick Grune
-
Original author of the
cvs
shell script version posted to
comp.sources.unix
in the volume6 release of December, 1986.
Credited with much of the
cvs
conflict resolution algorithms.
- Brian Berliner
-
Coder and designer of the
cvs
program itself in April, 1989, based on the original work done by Dick.
- Jeff Polk
-
Helped Brian with the design of the
cvs
module and vendor branch support and author of the
checkin(1)
shell script (the ancestor of
SEE ALSO
ci(1),
co(1),
cvs(5),
diff(1),
grep(1),
mkmodules(1),
patch(1),
rcs(1),
rcsdiff(1),
rcsmerge(1),
rlog(1),
rm(1),
sort(1).
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- FILES
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- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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- AUTHORS
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- SEE ALSO
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