Setting up CVS

[brickbat]

Hi,

I've installed CVS.

I want to use it to keep track of different versions of websites I hope to develop.

I want everything in my home directory for easy backup.

I have setup apache to use ~/www as my document root.

I created a repo at ~/cvsrepo in my home directory. I checked it. Its there and it has a CVSROOT directory in it.

when I type CVSROOT=~/cvsrepo then export CVSROOT and echo CVSROOT I get CVSROOT as a reply instead of ~/cvsrepo

I tried it with sudo thinking perhaps it was a permissions thing but it said command not found (I replaced ~ with /home/brickbat/

[hod139]

Try

echo $CVSROOT

You need to prepend the environement variable with a $.

[brickbat]

Ah-ha! Thankyou. I didn't know that. So why don't you need the $ with the "export CVSROOT"?

Works like a charm now

I have just imported my first project...A blank index.html and a directory!

[daneel_olivaw]

The '$' before a variable produces an expansion of the environment variable, is you write

Var="helow"
export $Var

it's like you write

export "helow"

which makes no sense to bash as it expects a variable name after export.

Cheers

[brickbat]

I see. Thank you.