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Copyright © 2001 by Stijn
Hoop
This article describes the steps I took to setup a
CVS repository that uses the same scripts the FreeBSD
project uses in their setup. This has several
advantages over a stock CVS setup, including more
granular access control to the source tree and
generation of readable email of every commit.
Most of the open source software projects use CVS as their source code control system.
While CVS is pretty good at
this, it has its share of flaws and weaknesses. One of
these is that sharing a source tree with other developers
can quickly lead to a system administration nightmare,
especially if one wishes to protect parts of the tree from
general access.
FreeBSD is one of the projects using CVS. It also has a large base of
developers located around the world. They developed some
scripts to make management of the repository easier.
Recently, these scripts were revisited and normalized by
Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> to
make it easier to reuse them in other projects. This
article describes one method of using the new scripts.
To make the most use of the information in this article,
you need to be familiar with the basic method of operation
of CVS.
