C. Reference manual for Administrative files

Inside the repository, in the directory `$CVSROOT/CVSROOT', there are a number of supportive files for CVS. You can use CVS in a limited fashion without any of them, but if they are set up properly they can help make life easier. For a discussion of how to edit them, see 2.4 The administrative files.

The most important of these files is the `modules' file, which defines the modules inside the repository.

C.1 The modules file		Defining modules
C.2 The cvswrappers file		Specify binary-ness based on file name
C.3 The commit support files		The commit support files (commitinfo, verifymsg, editinfo, loginfo)
C.4 Rcsinfo		Templates for the log messages
C.5 Ignoring files via cvsignore
C.6 The checkoutlist file		Adding your own administrative files
C.7 The history file		History information
C.8 Expansions in administrative files		Various variables are expanded
C.9 The CVSROOT/config configuration file		Miscellaneous CVS configuration