(cvs.info)CVS commands
Appendix A Guide to CVS commands
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This appendix describes the overall structure of CVS commands, and
describes some commands in detail (others are described elsewhere; for
a quick reference to CVS commands, Note: Invoking CVS).
Structure- Overall structure of CVS commands
- Exit status
- Indicating CVS's success or failure
- ~/.cvsrc
- Default options with the ~/.cvsrc file
- Global options
- Options you give to the left of cvs_command
- Common options
- Options you give to the right of cvs_command
- Date input formats
- Acceptable formats for date specifications
- admin
- Administration
- annotate
- What revision modified each line of a file?
- checkout
- Checkout sources for editing
- commit
- Check files into the repository
- diff
- Show differences between revisions
- export
- Export sources from CVS, similar to checkout
- history
- Show status of files and users
- import
- Import sources into CVS, using vendor branches
- log
- Show log messages for files
- ls & rls
- List files in the repository
- rdiff
- 'patch' format diffs between releases
- release
- Indicate that a directory is no longer in use
- server & pserver
- Act as a server for a client on stdin/stdout
- update
- Bring work tree in sync with repository
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