CVS at Savannah: basics

To use CVS on Savannah, you may first need to enable it for your group; then a cron job will create an empty repository, see VCS Intro.

Initial import

First, you should test the import on your local machine:

  mkdir ~/cvs-test
  cd ~/cvs-test
  cvs -d ~/cvs-test init
  mkdir ~/wd
  cd ~/wd
  # populate directory:
  touch README AUTHORS NEWS
  cvs -d ~/cvs-test import -m "Initial import" group_name

When everything is working well, you can replace ~/cvs-test with :ext:cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/group_name, or .../web/group_name for web pages.