Name
init
Synopsis
cvs [cvs-options
] init
Convert an existing directory into a CVS repository and create and populate 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.
Synonyms: none.
Example
$ cvs -d /var/lib/cvsroot init
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