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 2.6 Creating a repository
 =========================
 
 To set up a CVS repository, first choose the machine and disk on which
 you want to store the revision history of the source files.  CPU and
 memory requirements are modest, so most machines should be adequate.
 For details see  Server requirements.
 
    To estimate disk space requirements, if you are importing RCS files
 from another system, the size of those files is the approximate initial
 size of your repository, or if you are starting without any version
 history, a rule of thumb is to allow for the server approximately three
 times the size of the code to be under CVS for the repository (you will
 eventually outgrow this, but not for a while).  On the machines on
 which the developers will be working, you'll want disk space for
 approximately one working directory for each developer (either the
 entire tree or a portion of it, depending on what each developer uses).
 
    The repository should be accessible (directly or via a networked
 file system) from all machines which want to use CVS in server or local
 mode; the client machines need not have any access to it other than via
 the CVS protocol.  It is not possible to use CVS to read from a
 repository which one only has read access to; CVS needs to be able to
 create lock files ( Concurrency).
 
    To create a repository, run the `cvs init' command.  It will set up
 an empty repository in the CVS root specified in the usual way (
 Repository).  For example,
 
      cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init
 
    `cvs init' is careful to never overwrite any existing files in the
 repository, so no harm is done if you run `cvs init' on an already
 set-up repository.
 
    `cvs init' will enable history logging; if you don't want that,
 remove the history file after running `cvs init'.   history file.

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