• $CVSROOT is a shell variable that contains all you need to contact the CVS server
• CVS is inherently network friendly, but we should use it through ssh
• export CVS_RSH=$(which ssh)
  export CVSROOT=:ext:USERNAME@MACHINE.COM:/path/to/repository
• for example, user joe at machine spamco.com, and repository stored in /var/cvs: export CVSROOT=:ext:joe@spamco.com:/var/cvs
• typically put it initialization scripts
• to get an existing repository: cvs checkout test_repo
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