Chapter 13. The Concurrent Versions System (CVS)

Chapter 13. The Concurrent Versions System (CVS)

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 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 the O'Reilly book Essential CVS. The Internet starting point for CVS is http://www.cvshome.org/.