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A. Guide to CVS commands

This appendix describes the overall structure of CVS commands, and describes some commands in detail (others are described elsewhere; for a quick reference to CVS commands, see section B. Quick reference to CVS commands).

A.1 Overall structure of CVS commands  
A.2 CVS's exit status  Indicating CVS's success or failure
A.3 Default options and the ~/.cvsrc file  Default options with the ~/.csvrc file
A.4 Global options  Options you give to the left of cvs_command
A.5 Common command options  Options you give to the right of cvs_command
A.6 admin--Administration  Administration
A.7 checkout--Check out sources for editing  Checkout sources for editing
A.8 commit--Check files into the repository  Check files into the repository
A.9 diff--Show differences between revisions  Show differences between revisions
A.10 export--Export sources from CVS, similar to checkout  Export sources from CVS, similar to checkout
A.11 history--Show status of files and users  Show status of files and users
A.12 import--Import sources into CVS, using vendor branches  Import sources into CVS, using vendor branches
A.13 log--Print out log information for files  Show log messages for files
A.14 rdiff---'patch' format diffs between releases  'patch' format diffs between releases
A.15 release--Indicate that a Module is no longer in use  Indicate that a directory is no longer in use
A.16 update--Bring work tree in sync with repository  Bring work tree in sync with repository


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