Import
The https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=projectname (or nongnu.org) web page gives the basic checkout commands for a given project.
First, you should test the import on your local machine:
mkdir ~/cvs-test
cd ~/cvs-test
cvs -d ~/cvs-test init
mkdir ~/wd
cd ~/wd
# populate directory:
touch README AUTHORS NEWS
cvs -d ~/cvs-test import -m "Initial import" module you start
When everything working well, you can replace ~/cvs-test
by
:ext:cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/projectname
,
or .../web/projectname
for web pages.