Setting up a local CVS repository

Posted by creining | Filed under Linux/BSD

I started using CVS as a local repository for this site in order to better manage it. Also, I wanted to start blogging and wrestled with blogger and my template for awhile but finally won. This site conforms to XHTML 1.1 Strict. Woot. Here’s how I set up the local respository:

First we need to create the initial directory structure.

$ cd
$ mkdir www
$ cd www
$ mkdir cvs-rep

Next we will create the initial CVS repository.

$ cvs -d ~/www/cvs-rep init

Of course we will want to take advantage of the CVSROOT environment variable.

$ CVSROOT=~/www/cvs-rep;export CVSROOT

Next we want to create the website directory in ~/www.

wget -k -m http://www.packetfu.org

We will import all the files into the repository with a release name, start.

$ cd www.packetfu.org
$ cvs import www.packetfu.org creining start

Then remove the www.packetfu.org directory and instruct CVS to checkout a copy.

$ rm -rf www.packetfu.org
$ cvs checkout www.packetfu.org

Now we can edit and commit files into CVS.

$ cd www.packetfu.org
$ vi index.html
$ cvs commit index.html

When we are done we can delete the work area, www.packetfu.org, until we want

to check it out of CVS again.

$ cvs release -d www.packetfu.org

When publishing to the web we do not want to include the CVS directories, so

we use export.

$ cvs export -r HEAD www.packetfu.org

Permalink | April 2nd, 2003

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