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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Chapter 13: The Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
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-P Do not include empty directories in the sandbox.
-s Display the contents of the modules file in the repository’s
CVSROOT directory. This option lists the modules in the
current repository and their status. See also -c.
Example
$ cvs -d cvs:/var/lib/cvs checkout wizzard
cvs server: Updating wizzard
U wizzard/Changelog
U wizzard/INSTALL
U wizzard/Makefile
commit
cvs [cvs-options] commit [options] [files ...]
Commit changes in a sandbox to the repository. Until a commit is
run, changes such as modified, new, or removed files are not
reflected in the repository. If no files are listed as arguments, CVS
uploads all changes in the current sandbox.
Unless you use either the -m or -F options, commit calls an editor
to request a log message.
If there have been changes in the repository version of a file since it
was last synchronized with the repository, and the local version has
also changed, you have a conflict and the file cannot be committed.
You can try to commit the file again once you have updated it using
cvs update or cvs checkout. The update will include an attempt to
merge the file.
Synonyms: ci, com
Standard subcommand options: -l, -m, -n, -r, -R
Options
-f Force CVS to commit a file even if there have been no changes
to the file. This option ...
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