14.3. Dot Files

In client/server mode, all the dot files other than .rhosts should be on the client computer. The .rhosts file should be in the user's home directory on the server computer.

These are the dot files in the sandbox directory:

.cvsignore

Contains a list of files CVS should not process. The format is one or more lines, with whitespace-separated filenames or shell wildcard patterns matching files that CVS should ignore when producing informational messages, and during commit, update, or status operations. A single ! causes CVS to empty out its ignore list and start over again with subsequent filenames or patterns. The file may be checked into CVS.

.# filename. revision

If a project file that is not fully synchronized with the repository is overwritten by CVS, the original file is stored as .#filename.revision, where revision is the BASE revision of the file.

These are the dot files in a user's home directory:

.cvsignore

Contains a list of files CVS should not process. See the earlier description.

.cvspass

Used in pserver remote-access mode. This file contains the user's password for each repository the user is logged into, stored in a simple form of encoding. Be aware that the file is human-readable and that the passwords are easy to decrypt.

.cvsrc

Contains a list of CVS commands and the options the user wants as default options for those commands.

.cvswrappers

Contains a list of wrappers that affect how a file is stored. The wrappers include a pattern that CVS matches against filenames and a keyword-expansion mode that CVS applies to any file whose name matches the pattern.

.rhosts

Used when connecting with rsh. This file should be in the user's home directory on the server machine, and it should contain the client 's computer and username.

The rsh command is terribly, terribly insecure. You should avoid it completely; use ssh instead.