180Chapter6 • Introduction to CVS
At this stage, you will be presented with your preferred editor (as defined by the environ-
ment variables
$CVSEDITOR
or
$EDITOR
). This will allow you to create a log entry that
describes the project, the initial state that it is in, and anything else of importance.
When you save that file, the information, along with the imported files, will be saved in the
repository.
To avoid having the editor displayed, you can include a log entry on the command line
with the –
m
option. Log entries with spaces or other special characters in them should be
enclosed in quotes.
# cvs import –m “Initialized the project” Fuzion \
OSS_Software release_0_1
To ensure that the files have been imported, issue the following command from the server
that holds the repository:
# ls –l $CVSROOT/Fuzion
You should see a copy of each file in your project with a ‘
,v
’ appended to the filename.
At this point, you should remove the original directory (after ensuring that you have a
backup) and check out the project with CVS so that any modification can be committed to the
repository.
# cd /home/lcp
# rm –rf fuzion
# cvs co Fuzion
# cd Fuzion
At this point you are ready to continue development on this project with CVS.
6.4Using the CVS Client
There are several methods of accessing a CVS repository. The first is local access. This can be
accomplished by a user logging in at the terminal or logging in remotely over the network.
Either way, the developer must have a local account on the machine, a home directory, and the
repository to be accessed via the local session.
N O T E Special care must be taken if you are importing binary
data into a CVS repository. This can be the case if you are
importing files from a Windows platform, or if you use CVS to
manage the files necessary for maintaining a web site. Graphic
files and dlls will not import correctly unless special care is taken.
One way to do this is with the wrapper function of CVS. To
import a project and treat all files with a .jpg extension as binary
data, issue the following command:
cvs import -I ! -W "*.jpg -k 'b'" Pname V_tag R_tag