CVSROOT directory?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005, wombat236 at comcast.net wrote:
>Hi Guys,

>I downloaded the entire CVS repository (cvs tree via ftp) to a local
>machine.  However, I did not see a CVSROOT directory.  This is the
>directory that contains all the CVS admin files when you first create a
>repository.  Do I need to download this directory before I can start using
>the repository?  Note that I want all the versions and history, that is why
>I downloaded the whole tree.

The command ``cvs -d path-to-cvsroot init'' will create the
intial CVSROOT.

Bill
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