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NAME

       cvs - Concurrent Versions System support files

SYNOPSIS

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitinfo,v

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore,v

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvswrappers,v

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/editinfo,v

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/loginfo,v

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/modules,v

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/rcsinfo,v

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/taginfo,v

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd

       $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/admin

DESCRIPTION

       cvs   is   a  system  for  providing  source  control  to  hierarchical
       collections of source directories.  Commands and procedures  for  using
       cvs are described in cvs(1).

       cvs  manages  source  repositories,  the  directories containing master
       copies  of  the  revision-controlled  files,  by   copying   particular
       revisions  of  the  files  to (and modifications back from) developers’
       private  working  directories.   In  terms  of  file  structure,   each
       individual  source repository is an immediate subdirectory of $CVSROOT.

       The files described here are supporting files;  they  do  not  have  to
       exist for cvs to operate, but they allow you to make cvs operation more
       flexible.

       You can use the ‘modules’ file to define symbolic names for collections
       of  source  maintained  with  cvs.   If  there  is  no  ‘modules’ file,
       developers must specify complete path names (absolute, or  relative  to
       $CVSROOT) for the files they wish to manage with cvs commands.

       You  can  use  the  ‘commitinfo’  file  to  define  programs to execute
       whenever ‘cvs commit’ is about to execute.  These programs are used for
       ‘‘pre-commit’’ checking to verify that the modified, added, and removed
       files are really ready to be committed.  Some uses for this check might
       be  to  turn  off  a  portion  (or all) of the source repository from a
       particular person or group.  Or, perhaps, to verify  that  the  changed
       files conform to the site’s standards for coding practice.

       You can use the ‘cvswrappers’ file to record cvs wrapper commands to be
       used when checking files into and  out  of  the  repository.   Wrappers
       allow  the  file  or directory to be processed on the way in and out of
       CVS.  The intended uses are many, one possible use would be to reformat
       a  C  file  before  the  file  is checked in, so all of the code in the
       repository looks the same.

       You can use the ‘loginfo’ file to define programs to execute after  any
       commit,  which writes a log entry for changes in the repository.  These
       logging programs might be used to append the log message to a file.  Or
       send  the log message through electronic mail to a group of developers.
       Or, perhaps, post the log message to a particular newsgroup.

       You can use the ‘taginfo’ file to define programs to execute after  any
       tag  or  rtag  operation.   These  programs  might  be used to append a
       message to a file listing the new  tag  name  and  the  programmer  who
       created  it, or send mail to a group of developers, or, perhaps, post a
       message to a particular newsgroup.

       You can use the ‘rcsinfo’ file to define forms for log messages.

       You can use the ‘editinfo’ file to define  a  program  to  execute  for
       editing/validating  ‘cvs commit’ log entries.  This is most useful when
       used with a ‘rcsinfo’ forms specification, as it can  verify  that  the
       proper  fields  of  the form have been filled in by the user committing
       the change.

       You can use the ‘cvsignore’ file to specify the default list  of  files
       to ignore during update.

       You  can  use the ‘history’ file to record the cvs commands that affect
       the repository.  The creation of this file enables history logging.

FILES

       modules
              The  ‘modules’  file  records  your  definitions  of  names  for
              collections  of  source code.  cvs will use these definitions if
              you use cvs to  check  in  a  file  with  the  right  format  to
              ‘$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/modules,v’.

              The  ‘modules’  file may contain blank lines and comments (lines
              beginning with ‘#’) as well as module definitions.   Long  lines
              can  be  continued  on  the  next line by specifying a backslash
              (‘‘\’’) as the last character on the line.

              A module definition is a single line of the ‘modules’  file,  in
              either  of  two  formats.   In  both cases, mname represents the
              symbolic module name, and the  remainder  of  the  line  is  its
              definition.

              mname -a aliases...
              This  represents  the  simplest  way of defining a module mname.
              The ‘-a’ flags the definition as a simple alias: cvs will  treat
              any use of mname (as a command argument) as if the list of names
              aliases had been specified instead.  aliases may contain  either
              other  module  names  or  paths.  When you use paths in aliases,
              ‘cvs checkout’  creates  all  intermediate  directories  in  the
              working  directory,  just  as  if  the  path  had been specified
              explicitly in the cvs arguments.

              mname [ options ] dir [ files... ] [ &module... ]

              In the simplest case, this form of module definition reduces  to
              ‘mname  dir’.   This  defines  all the files in directory dir as
              module mname.  dir is a  relative  path  (from  $CVSROOT)  to  a
              directory  of source in one of the source repositories.  In this
              case, on checkout, a single directory called mname is created as
              a  working  directory; no intermediate directory levels are used
              by default, even if dir was a path involving  several  directory
              levels.

              By  explicitly  specifying  files in the module definition after
              dir, you can select particular files from  directory  dir.   The
              sample  definition for modules is an example of a module defined
              with a single file from a particular directory.  Here is another
              example:

              m4test  unsupported/gnu/m4 foreach.m4 forloop.m4

              With  this  definition,  executing  ‘cvs  checkout  m4test’ will
              create a single working directory ‘m4test’  containing  the  two
              files  listed,  which  both come from a common directory several
              levels deep in the cvs source repository.

              A module definition can refer  to  other  modules  by  including
              ‘&module’  in  its  definition.  checkout creates a subdirectory
              for each such module, in your working directory.
              New in cvs 1.3; avoid this feature if sharing module definitions
              with older versions of cvs.

              Finally,  you  can  use  one or more of the following options in
              module definitions:

              ‘-d name’, to name the working directory  something  other  than
              the module name.
              New in cvs 1.3; avoid this feature if sharing module definitions
              with older versions of cvs.

              ‘-i prog’ allows you to specify a program prog to  run  whenever
              files  in  a  module  are  committed.   prog  runs with a single
              argument, the full pathname  of  the  affected  directory  in  a
              source repository.   The ‘commitinfo’, ‘loginfo’, and ‘editinfo’
              files provide other ways to call a program on commit.

              ‘-o prog’ allows you to specify a program prog to  run  whenever
              files  in  a  module  are  checked out.  prog runs with a single
              argument, the module name.

              ‘-e prog’ allows you to specify a program prog to  run  whenever
              files  in  a  module  are  exported.   prog  runs  with a single
              argument, the module name.

              ‘-t prog’ allows you to specify a program prog to  run  whenever
              files  in  a  module  are tagged.  prog runs with two arguments:
              the module name and the symbolic tag specified to rtag.

              ‘-u prog’ allows you to specify a program prog to  run  whenever
              ‘cvs  update’  is  executed  from the top-level directory of the
              checked-out module.  prog runs with a single argument, the  full
              path to the source repository for this module.

       commitinfo, loginfo, rcsinfo, editinfo
              These  files all specify programs to call at different points in
              the ‘cvs commit’ process.  They have a common  structure.   Each
              line  is  a  pair  of fields: a regular expression, separated by
              whitespace from a filename or command-line  template.   Whenever
              one  of  the  regular expression matches a directory name in the
              repository, the rest of the line is used.  If  the  line  begins
              with  a # character, the entire line is considered a comment and
              is ignored.  Whitespace between the fields is also ignored.

              For ‘loginfo’, the rest of the line is a  command-line  template
              to  execute.  The templates can include not only a program name,
              but whatever list of arguments you  wish.   If  you  write  ‘%s’
              somewhere on the argument list, cvs supplies, at that point, the
              list of files affected by the commit.  The first  entry  in  the
              list is the relative path within the source repository where the
              change is being made.  The remaining arguments  list  the  files
              that  are  being  modified,  added,  or  removed  by this commit
              invocation.

              For ‘taginfo’, the rest of the line is a  command-line  template
              to  execute.  The arguments passed to the command are, in order,
              the tagname , operation (i.e.  add for ‘tag’, mov for ‘tag  -F’,
              and  del for ‘tag -d‘), repository , and any remaining are pairs
              of filename revision .  A non-zero exit of  the  filter  program
              will cause the tag to be aborted.

              For  ‘commitinfo’,  the  rest  of  the  line  is  a command-line
              template to execute.   The  template  can  include  not  only  a
              program name, but whatever list of arguments you wish.  The full
              path to  the  current  source  repository  is  appended  to  the
              template,  followed  by  the file names of any files involved in
              the commit (added, removed, and modified files).

              For ‘rcsinfo’, the rest of the line is the full path to  a  file
              that should be loaded into the log message template.

              For  ‘editinfo’, the rest of the line is a command-line template
              to execute.  The template can include not only a  program  name,
              but  whatever  list of arguments you wish.  The full path to the
              current log message template file is appended to the template.

              You can use one of two special  strings  instead  of  a  regular
              expression:  ‘ALL’  specifies  a command line template that must
              always be executed,  and  ‘DEFAULT’  specifies  a  command  line
              template to use if no regular expression is a match.

              The  ‘commitinfo’  file  contains commands to execute before any
              other commit activity, to allow you to check any conditions that
              must  be  satisfied  before commit can proceed.  The rest of the
              commit will execute only if all selected commands from this file
              exit with exit status 0.

              The  ‘rcsinfo’  file allows you to specify log templates for the
              commit logging session; you can use this to provide  a  form  to
              edit  when  filling  out  the  commit  log.  The field after the
              regular expression, in this file, contains filenames  (of  files
              containing the logging forms) rather than command templates.

              The  ‘editinfo’  file  allows you to execute a script before the
              commit starts, but after the log information is recorded.  These
              "edit"  scripts can verify information recorded in the log file.
              If the edit script exits wth a non-zero exit status, the  commit
              is aborted.

              The  ‘loginfo’ file contains commands to execute at the end of a
              commit.  The text specified as a commit  log  message  is  piped
              through  the  command; typical uses include sending mail, filing
              an article in a newsgroup, or appending to a central file.

       cvsignore, .cvsignore
              The default list of files  (or  sh(1)  file  name  patterns)  to
              ignore  during  ‘cvs  update’.   At  startup time, cvs loads the
              compiled in default list of file  name  patterns  (see  cvs(1)).
              Then      the      per-repository      list      included     in
              $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore is loaded, if it  exists.   Then  the
              per-user  list  is  loaded from ‘$HOME/.cvsignore’.  Finally, as
              cvs traverses through your directories, it will  load  any  per-
              directory  ‘.cvsignore’ files whenever it finds one.  These per-
              directory files are only valid for exactly  the  directory  that
              contains them, not for any sub-directories.

       history
              Create  this  file in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT to enable history logging
              (see the description of ‘cvs history’).

       passwd This file contains the authentication information  used  to  map
              cvs  users into system users.  For protocols that require it, it
              also contains encrypted passwords for those  users.   This  file
              cannot  be  put  under version control.  It is preferable to use
              the ’cvs passwd’ command to modify this file.

       admin  This file contains the list of cvs users who have administration
              privileges in the repository.  Administrators are able to change
              ACLs on directories they do not own, and change the passwords of
              other users.

SEE ALSO

       cvs(1),

COPYING

       Copyright  ©  1992  Cygnus Support, Brian Berliner, Jeff Polk, and Tony
       Hoyle

       Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim  copies  of  this
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       preserved on all copies.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of  this
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       permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission  is  granted  to  copy  and  distribute translations of this
       manual into another language, under the above conditions  for  modified
       versions,  except  that  this  permission  notice  may  be  included in
       translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the
       original English.

                               12 February 1992                         cvs(5)