Chapter 14. The Concurrent Versions System
This chapter is a comprehensive reference of all CVS commands, with a brief summary of what each does. It is intended to be useful as a quick reference, not as a tutorial.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Conceptual overview
Command-line syntax and options
CVS dot files
Environment variables
Keywords and keyword modes
Dates
CVSROOT variables
Alphabetical summary of commands
Most of the material in this chapter is adapted from Essential CVS, which is cited in the Bibliography. See that book for much more information on CVS. The Internet starting point for CVS is http://www.cvshome.org/.
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