Module Maintenance

home directory, /home/sam, called /home/sam/cvsroot, I would issue the following 

command:

$ cvs  d /home/sam/cvsroot init

Once you've initialized the repository, you need to tell CVS about it. You could 

specify a  d option to all your commands as I did with cvs init earlier, but that 

would get very tiresome. Instead, set the CVSROOT environment variable in your 

shell to the name of the repository directory. For example, I use the bash shell and 

I have a line in my .bash_profile file like this:

export CVSROOT=/home/sam/cvsroot

After this step, all your cvs commands will use /home/sam/cvsroot as the repository.

Using a Remote CVS Repository with SSH

The most common usage of CVS via the Internet is through ssh. This is the way the 

free CVS server on SourceForge works, and I'll use it as an example. Since the folks 

at SourceForge have already initialized your CVS repository, you don't need to do a 

cvs init operation. All you need to do is set up two environment variables 

CVSROOT and CVS_RSH. For example, to access a repository stored on the machine 

cvs.foo.sourceforge.net in the path /cvsroot/foo using ssh with the username 

 sam , I would make these settings:

$ export CVSROOT=:ext:sam@cvs.foo.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/foo

$ export CVS_RSH=ssh

The first line tells CVS where to look for the repository, and the second tells CVS to 

use ssh instead of rsh to connect to the server. If you're using SourceForge, you can 

find the values for both these variables on your project's CVS page.

The SourceForge servers also provide access using CVS's pserver protocol for 

anonymous access. Anonymous CVS access is a read only service it allows 

external developers to access the CVS tree and produce patches from it without 

being able to alter its state. See the SourceForge project's CVS page for details on 

connecting as an anonymous user.

Importing Your Module

To start using CVS with your module, you'll need to import your source into CVS. 

When you import your module into CVS, space is created in the CVSROOT for your 

project. To get started, make sure you have just the files you want to store in CVS in 

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