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The CVSROOT/ Administrative Directory
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The files in newrepos/CVSROOT/ are not part of any project, but are used
to control CVS's behavior in the repository.  The best way to edit those
files is to check out a working copy of CVSROOT, just like a regular
project:

     floss$ cvs co CVSROOT
     cvs checkout: Updating CVSROOT
     U CVSROOT/checkoutlist
     U CVSROOT/commitinfo
     U CVSROOT/config
     U CVSROOT/cvswrappers
     U CVSROOT/editinfo
     U CVSROOT/loginfo
     U CVSROOT/modules
     U CVSROOT/notify
     U CVSROOT/rcsinfo
     U CVSROOT/taginfo
     U CVSROOT/verifymsg
     floss$

We'll take the files in their approximate order of importance.  Note
that each of the files comes with an explanatory comment at the
beginning (the comment convention is the same across all of them: A `#'
sign at the beginning of the line signifies a comment, and CVS ignores
such lines when parsing the files).  Remember that any change you make
to the administrative files in your checked out working copy won't
affect CVS's behavior until you commit the changes.

If you're extremely security conscious, you may want to arrange the
Unix-level permissions on CVSROOT to be different from permissions
elsewhere in the repository, in order to have fine-grained control over
who can commit changes to CVSROOT.  As you'll see a little later, being
able to modify the files in CVSROOT essentially gives any CVS user -
even remote ones - the ability to run arbitrary commands on the
repository machine.

The config File

The modules File

The commitinfo And loginfo And rcsinfo Files

The verifymsg And rcsinfo Files

The taginfo File

The cvswrappers File

The editinfo File

The notify File

The checkoutlist File