CVS Command

Logging into a CVS Repository in Unix

Logging into a CVS Repository in Unix

Local Repository

With a local CVS Repository, you simply need to set your CVSROOT environment variable to the location of the CVS Repository as in the following example:

% CVSROOT=/var/lib/cvsroot
% export CVSROOT

Remote Repository

% CVSROOT=:pserver:<username>@<computername>:<repository>

Login to a remote CVS repository using the :pserver: protocol. The CVS server is named alex and my user name is oracle. Keep in mind that I needed to first create the local user, oracle, on the CVS host. (Which, again, in this example is named alex.)

% CVSROOT=:pserver:oracle@alex:/var/lib/cvsroot  
% cvs login  Logging in to :pserver:oracle@alex:/var/lib/cvsroot  CVS password: *******        

posted by Anonymous @ 3:03 AM