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CVS--Concurrent Versions System v1.12.13
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This info manual describes how to use and administer CVS version
1.12.13.

Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Portions  
          Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Derek
          R. Price,
          Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Ximbiot
          `http://ximbiot.com',
          Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1999 Signum Support AB,
          and Copyright (C) others.

   Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.

   Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also
that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms
of a permission notice identical to this one.

   Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a
translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.

Overview

An introduction to CVS

Repository

Where all your sources are stored

Starting a new project

Starting a project with CVS

Revisions

Numeric and symbolic names for revisions

Branching and merging

Diverging/rejoining branches of development

Recursive behavior

CVS descends directories

Adding and removing

Adding/removing/renaming files/directories

History browsing

Viewing the history of files in various ways

CVS and the Real World.
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Binary files

CVS can handle binary files

Multiple developers

How CVS helps a group of developers

Revision management

Policy questions for revision management

Keyword substitution

CVS can include the revision inside the file

Tracking sources

Tracking third-party sources

Builds

Issues related to CVS and builds

Special Files

Devices, links and other non-regular files

References.
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CVS commands

CVS commands share some things

Invoking CVS

Quick reference to CVS commands

Administrative files

Reference manual for the Administrative files

Environment variables

All environment variables which affect CVS

Compatibility

Upgrading CVS versions

Troubleshooting

Some tips when nothing works

Credits

Some of the contributors to this manual

BUGS

Dealing with bugs in CVS or this manual

Index

Index