Environment Variables
export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:orgcbare@www.cbare.org:/home/orgcbare/cvsroot
Global -d Option
As an alternative to setting the CVSROOT environment variable, we can also use the global -d option.
cvs -d :ext:orgcbare@www.cbare.org:/home/orgcbare/cvsroot [...command...]
Import
Put a set of files rooted in originaldir into CVS with the name yoyodyne/rdir.
cd originaldir
cvs import -m "Imported sources" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
Checkout
Check a project out into localdir from the cvs name yoyodyne/rdir.
cvs checkout -d localdir yoyodyne/rdir
Sync
To check whether the contents of the repository and the local copy are out of sync, (due to changes on either side):
cvs -n update