CVS Command Overview

• add:
  Add a new file or directory to the repository, pending a `cvs commit' on the same file. Can only be done from within sources created by a previous `cvs checkout' invocation.
  
  
• admin:
  Execute control functions on the sources repository.
  
  
• checkout:
  Make a working directory of source files for editing.
  
  
• commit:
  Apply to the source repository changes, additions, and deletions from your working directory.
  
  
• diff:
  Show differences between files in working directory and source repository, or between two revisions in source repository.
  
  
• export:
  Prepare copies of a set of source files for shipment off site. Differs from `cvs checkout' in that no cvs administrative directories are created (and therefore `cvs commit' cannot be executed from a directory prepared with `cvs export').
  
  
• history:
  Show reports on cvs commands that you or others have executed on a particular file or directory in the source repository.
  
  
• import:
  Incorporate a set of updates from off-site into the source repository, as a ``vendor branch''.
  
  
• init:
  Initialize a repository by adding the CVSROOT subdirectory and some default control files. You must use this command or initialize the repository in some other way before you can use it.
  
  
• log:
  Display log information.
  
  
• rdiff:
  Prepare a collection of diffs as a patch file between two releases in the repository.
  
  
• release:
  Cancel a `cvs checkout', abandoning any changes. (Can delete working directory; no effect on repository.)
  
  
• remove:
  Remove files from the source repository, pending a `cvs commit' on the same files.
  
  
• rtag:
  Explicitly specify a symbolic tag for particular revisions of files in the source repository.
  
  
• status:
  Show current status of files.
  
  
• tag:
  Specify a symbolic tag for files in the repository.
  
  
• update:
  Bring your working directory up to date with changes from the repository. Merges are performed automatically when possible; a warning is issued if manual resolution is required for conflicting changes. (Changes working directory; does not change repository.)