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Development of CVS: set up

Development of CVS: set up

This page concerns CVS development items relating to installing CVS software, creating a repository, choosing optional behaviors, and the like.

Here is a bugfix for the LockDir option.

Here are a few ideas about improved installation for CVS.

Here is a report concerning a confusing error message if one specifies the wrong directory for CVS's temporary files.

Here is a patch (previous version) to make the CVS_BADROOT setting in options.h a run-time setting rather than compile-time setting.

Issues relating to --allow-root.

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