Adding A new Project Into CVS Repository

Adding A new Project Into CVS Repository


Following steps has to do for adding a new project to the cvs repository.

Step-i

Add a username(should be same as the project name) and create a password for the corresponding user name. Then edit the following file # vi /etc/passwd and find the corresponding username. Edit the particular line and change the group number to the group number of cvs.

Step-ii

Edit the file 'group' in the /etc dirctory and add the username(project name) to the group cvs


Step-iii

Now go to the cvs root folder (in my case it is /cvs) and create a directory. the directories name should same as the username. Change the owner and group to cvs.

# chown cvs:cvs /cvs/projectname(username)

Step-iv

We need to init the cvs in the /cvs/projectname(username) directory. This is done by the following command.

# cvs -d /cvs/projectname inti

This command will create a directory name CVSROOT in /cvs/projectname folder. Change the ownership and group to cvs.

# chown -R cvs:cvs /cvs/projectname/CVSROOT

Now you need to set the acces level permission. ie, set it to 775 directory permission . The following command will do the same.

# chmod -R 775 /cvs/projectname/CVSROOT

Step-V

Then, you want to make sure that all the files have the correct group bit set:

chown -R :cvs /usr/local/cvsrepo/project
And, you want to make sure that any new directories (and files) added use the cvs group, rather than the group group:

chmod -R g+ws /usr/local/cvsrepo/project