June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 49m
English
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Building Your First Repository
CVS relies on a file-based database called the CVS repository. The repository needs to be hosted on a machine with sufficient disk space to store your files and all the change data for your projects. The repository should be accessible to all the users from their workstations.
If the repository is on a remote computer, I recommend that users access the repository via SSH. Ensure that the server is running an SSH server and the workstations have a compatible SSH client. For more information on remote repositories and SSH, see Section 2.4 later in this chapter. Chapter 8 contains a full discussion of remote repositories.
For any one project, ensure there is enough disk space for three times the expected final size of that project. If you intend to store binary files, multiply by at least five. After your first project, you’ll have a feel for how much space to allow.
A repository can store many projects. If you are creating a repository that may be required to handle several projects of unknown size, estimate what you can and ensure you can add more room later.
A CVS repository is user data, and it should be on a partition that
is backed up and won’t shut down the machine if it
gets full. Repositories are often stored in
/cvsroot,
/var/lib/cvsroot,
/home/cvsroot, or
/usr/local/cvsroot. According to the Filesystem
Heirarchy Standard (available at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/), the preferred
location for a repository is /var/lib/cvsroot.
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