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About this manual
Add (subcommand)
Add options
Adding a tag
Adding files
Admin (subcommand)
Administrative files (intro)
Administrative files (reference)
Administrative files, editing them
ALL in commitinfo
annotate (subcommand)
Atomic transactions, lack of
authenticated client, using
authenticating server, setting up
Author keyword
Automatically ignored files
Avoiding editor invocation
b
Binary files
Branch merge example
Branch number
Branch numbers
Branch, creating a
Branch, vendor-
Branches
Branches motivation
Branches, copying changes between
Branches, sticky
Bringing a file up to date
Bugs, known in this manual
Bugs, reporting (manual)
c
Changes, copying between branches
Changing a log message
Checkin program
Checking commits
Checking out source
Checkout (subcommand)
Checkout program
Checkout, example
Cleaning up
Client/Server Operation
Co (subcommand)
Command reference
Command structure
Comment leader
Commit (subcommand)
Commit files
Commit, when to
Commitinfo
Committing changes
Common options
Common syntax of info files
COMSPEC
Conflict markers
Conflict resolution
Conflicts (merge example)
Contributors (CVS program)
Contributors (manual)
Copying changes
Correcting a log message
Creating a branch
Creating a project
Creating a repository
Credits (CVS program)
Credits (manual)
CVS 1.6, and watches
CVS command structure
CVS passwd file
CVS, history of
CVS, introduction to
CVS_CLIENT_LOG
CVS_CLIENT_PORT
CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT
CVS_PASSFILE, environment variable
CVS_PASSWORD, environment variable
CVS_RCMD_PORT
CVS_RSH
CVS_SERVER
CVS_SERVER_SLEEP
CVSEDITOR
CVSEDITOR, environment variable
CVSIGNORE
cvsignore (admin file), global
CVSREAD
CVSREAD, overriding
cvsroot
CVSROOT
CVSROOT (file)
CVSROOT, environment variable
CVSROOT, module name
CVSROOT, multiple repositories
CVSROOT, overriding
CVSWRAPPERS
cvswrappers (admin file)
CVSWRAPPERS, environment variable
d
Date keyword
Dates
Decimal revision number
DEFAULT in commitinfo
DEFAULT in editinfo
Defining a module
Defining modules (intro)
Defining modules (reference manual)
Deleting files
Deleting revisions
Deleting sticky tags
Descending directories
Diff
Diff (subcommand)
Differences, merging
Directories, moving
Directory, descending
Disjoint repositories
Distributing log messages
driver.c (merge example)
e
edit (subcommand)
editinfo (admin file)
Editing administrative files
Editing the modules file
EDITOR
Editor, avoiding invocation of
EDITOR, environment variable
EDITOR, overriding
Editor, specifying per module
editors (subcommand)
emerge
Environment variables
Errors, reporting (manual)
Example of a work-session
Example of merge
Example, branch merge
Export (subcommand)
Export program
f
Fetching source
File locking
File permissions
File status
Files, moving
Files, reference manual
Fixing a log message
Forcing a tag match
Form for log message
Format of CVS commands
Four states of a file
g
Getting started
Getting the source
Global cvsignore
Global options
Group
h
Header keyword
History (subcommand)
History browsing
History file
History files
History of CVS
HOME
HOMEPATH
i
Id keyword
Ident (shell command)
Identifying files
Ignored files
Ignoring files
Import (subcommand)
Importing files
Importing files, from other version control systesm
Importing modules
Index
Info files (syntax)
Informing others
init (subcommand)
Introduction to CVS
Invoking CVS
Isolation
j
Join
k
kerberos
Keyword expansion
Keyword substitution
Kflag
kinit
Known bugs in this manual
l
Layout of repository
Left-hand options
Linear development
List, mailing list
Locally modified
Locker keyword
Locking files
locks, cvs
Log (subcommand)
Log information, saving
Log keyword
Log keyword, selecting comment leader
Log message entry
Log message template
Log message, correcting
Log messages
Log messages, editing
Login (subcommand)
loginfo (admin file)
LOGNAME
m
Mail, automatic mail on commit
Mailing list
Mailing log messages
Main trunk (intro)
Main trunk and branches
Many repositories
Markers, conflict
Merge, an example
Merge, branch example
Merging
Merging a branch
Merging a file
Merging two revisions
Modifications, copying between branches
Module status
Module, defining
Modules (admin file)
Modules (intro)
Modules file
Modules file, changing
Motivation for branches
Moving directories
Moving files
Multiple developers
Multiple repositories
n
Name, symbolic (tag)
Needing merge
Needing update
Newsgroups
notify (admin file)
Nroff (selecting comment leader)
Number, branch
Number, revision-
o
option defaults
Options, global
Outdating revisions
Overlap
Overriding CVSREAD
Overriding CVSROOT
Overriding EDITOR
Overriding RCSBIN
p
Parallel repositories
passwd (admin file)
password client, using
password server, setting up
PATH
Per-module editor
Policy
Precommit checking
Preface
Pserver (subcommand)
r
RCS history files
RCS keywords
RCS revision numbers
RCS, CVS uses RCS
RCS, importing files from
RCS-style locking
RCSBIN
RCSBIN, overriding
RCSfile keyword
rcsinfo (admin file)
RCSINIT
Rdiff (subcommand)
Read-only files
Read-only mode
Recursive (directory descending)
Reference manual (files)
Reference manual for variables
Reference, commands
Release (subcommand)
Releases, revisions and versions
Releasing your working copy
Remote repositories
Remove (subcommand)
Removing a change
Removing files
Removing your working copy
Renaming directories
Renaming files
Replacing a log message
Reporting bugs (manual)
Repositories, multiple
Repositories, remote
Repository (intro)
Repository, example
Repository, setting up
Repository, user parts
Reserved checkouts
Resetting sticky tags
Resolving a conflict
Restoring old version of removed file
Resurrecting old version of dead file
Retrieving an old revision using tags
Revision keyword
Revision management
Revision numbers
Revision tree
Revision tree, making branches
Revisions, merging differences between
Revisions, versions and releases
Right-hand options
rsh
Rtag (subcommand)
rtag, creating a branch using
s
Saving space
SCCS, importing files from
Security
setgid
Setting up a repository
setuid
Signum Support
Source keyword
Source, getting CVS source
Source, getting from CVS
Specifying dates
Spreading information
Starting a project with CVS
State keyword
Status (subcommand)
Status of a file
Status of a module
sticky date
Sticky tags
Sticky tags, resetting
Storing log messages
Structure
Subdirectories
Support, getting CVS support
Symbolic name (tag)
Syntax of info files
t
Tag (subcommand)
Tag program
tag, command, introduction
tag, example
Tag, retrieving old revisions
Tag, symbolic name
taginfo
Tags
Tags, sticky
tc, Trivial Compiler (example)
Team of developers
TEMP
Template for log message
temporary files, location of
Third-party sources
Time
TMP
TMPDIR
Trace
Traceability
Tracking sources
Transactions, atomic, lack of
Trivial Compiler (example)
Typical repository
u
Undoing a change
unedit (subcommand)
Up-to-date
Update (subcommand)
Update program
update, introduction
Updating a file
USER
User modules
users (admin file)
v
Vendor
Vendor branch
Versions, revisions and releases
Viewing differences
w
watch add (subcommand)
watch off (subcommand)
watch on (subcommand)
watch remove (subcommand)
watchers (subcommand)
Watches
Wdiff (import example)
What (shell command)
What branches are good for
What is CVS?
When to commit
Work-session, example of
Working copy
Working copy, removing
Wrappers
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