We don't have time or space to provide you with even a minimal tutorial on CVS. Fortunately, there are a number of excellent online resources. Some of these we list here.
· CVS documentation
o Cederqvist Manual, HTML format: http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_toc.html
o Cederqvist Manual, PDF format: http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs.pdf