(cvs.info)CVS commands

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

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

rdiff

'patch' format diffs between releases

release

Indicate that a directory is no longer in use

update

Bring work tree in sync with repository