Version Management

with

CVS

for CVS 1.9.16

Per Cederqvist et al

Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Signum Support AB

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• Overview: An introduction to CVS
• Repository: Where all your sources are stored
• Starting a new project: Starting a project with CVS
• Revisions: Numeric and symbolic names for revisions
• Branching and merging: Diverging/rejoining branches of development
• Recursive behavior: CVS descends directories
• Adding and removing: Adding/removing/renaming files/directories
• History browsing: Viewing the history of files in various ways CVS and the Real World. -----------------------
• Binary files: CVS can handle binary files
• Multiple developers: How CVS helps a group of developers
• Revision management: Policy questions for revision management
• Keyword substitution: CVS can include the revision inside the file
• Tracking sources: Tracking third-party sources
• Builds: Issues related to CVS and builds
• Special Files: Devices, links and other non-regular files References. -----------
• CVS commands: CVS commands share some things
• Invoking CVS: Quick reference to CVS commands
• Administrative files: Reference manual for the Administrative files
• Environment variables: All environment variables which affect CVS
• Compatibility: Upgrading CVS versions
• Troubleshooting: Some tips when nothing works
• Credits: Some of the contributors to this manual
• BUGS: Dealing with bugs in CVS or this manual
• Index: Index

1 Overview

This chapter is for people who have never used CVS, and perhaps have never used version control software before.

If you are already familiar with CVS and are just trying to learn a particular feature or remember a certain command, you can probably skip everything here.

• What is CVS?: What you can do with CVS
• What is CVS not?: Problems CVS doesn't try to solve
• A sample session: A tour of basic CVS usage

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