Playing with a CVS client

Create a new repository folder

cd project/
cvs import -m "" project organization initial

first argument: remote folder name for the repository (local folder does not have to exist yet)
second argument: vendor tag, define your organization
third argument: release tag, initial, current or v0.0

get a local copy of the repo (in case the folder already existed, create the CVS tracking within it)

cd ../
cvs checkout -P project/

now the tracking subfolder appeared

ls -lF project/CVS/

Checkout

NetBSD

export CVSROOT="anoncvs@anoncvs.MIRROR.netbsd.org:/cvsroot"
cvs -z9 checkout -P src
#-r netbsd-9
cd src/

Nethence rrr

ssh-keygen -t ...
cat ~/.ssh/id_*.pub #paste it to CVS server
vi .ssh/config

Host xc.nethence.com
        Port XXX

export CVSROOT="USER@xc.nethence.com/cvsroot"
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs checkout -P rrr
cd rrr/