Click for printer friendely version of this HowTo Creating and Initializing the Repository This section describes a creation and initialization stage that is only required the very first time you try to get CVS working on your computer.4.2 Once this is done, you can add new projects or directories to the repository without having to go through this process. You first need to create a directory on your computer that can be used as the repository. Usually this is set to /home/cvsroot/ but you can put it anywhere you want. You will also need to give read and write access to any users or groups that will be using the repository. For example, you may wish to use the following commands: shell> su shell# export CVSROOT=/home/cvsroot shell# groupadd cvs shell# useradd -g cvs -d $CVSROOT cvs shell# mkdir $CVSROOT shell# chgrp -R cvs $CVSROOT shell# chmod o-rwx $CVSROOT shell# chmod u+rwx $CVSROOT shell# chmod g+rwxs $CVSROOT shell# cvs init Now add add users to the cvs group. bash# usermod -G cvs some_username where some_uesrname is a user you want to have read and write access to the repository.

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