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Name

init — Synonyms: none

Synopsis

cvs [cvs-options] init

Converts an existing directory into a CVS repository and creates and populates the CVSROOT directory that contains the administrative files for a CVS repository.

CVS creates the final directory in the path if it does not already exist. Previous directories in the path must exist.

Example

$ cvs -d /var/lib/cvsroot init

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