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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 Invoking CVS).
| • Structure: | Overall structure of CVS commands | |
| • Exit status: | Indicating CVS’s success or failure | |
| • ~/.cvsrc: | Default options with the ~/.cvsrc file | |
| • Global options: | Options you give to the left of cvs_command | |
| • Common options: | Options you give to the right of cvs_command | |
| • add: | Add files and directories to the repository | |
| • admin: | Administration | |
| • annotate: | What revision modified each line of a file? | |
| • 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 directory is no longer in use | |
| • remove: | Remove files from active development | |
| • update: | Bring work tree in sync with repository |
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