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/.