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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 Quick reference to CVS commands).
- Structure: Overall structure of CVS commands
- Exit status: Indicating CVS's success or failure
- ~/.cvsrc: Default options with the ~/.csvrc file
- Global options: Options you give to the left of cvs_command
- Common options: Options you give to the right of cvs_command
- admin: Administration
- checkout: Checkout sources for editing
- commit: Check files into the repository
- diff: Show differences between revisions
- export: Export sources from CVS, similar to checkout
- history: Show status of files and users
- import: Import sources into CVS, using vendor branches
- log: Show log messages for files
- rdiff: 'patch' format diffs between releases
- release: Indicate that a Module is no longer in use
- rtag: Add a tag to a module
- tag: Add a tag to checked out version
- update: Bring work tree in sync with repository
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