A. Guide to CVS commands

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).

A.1 Overall structure of CVS commands
A.2 CVS's exit status		Indicating CVS's success or failure
A.3 Default options and the ~/.cvsrc file		Default options with the ~/.cvsrc file
A.4 Global options		Options you give to the left of cvs_command
A.5 Common command options		Options you give to the right of cvs_command
A.6 admin—Administration		Administration
A.7 annotate—What revision modified each line of a file?		What revision modified each line of a file?
A.8 checkout—Check out sources for editing		Checkout sources for editing
A.9 commit—Check files into the repository		Check files into the repository
A.10 diff—Show differences between revisions		Show differences between revisions
A.11 export—Export sources from CVS, similar to checkout		Export sources from CVS, similar to checkout
A.12 history—Show status of files and users		Show status of files and users
A.13 import—Import sources into CVS, using vendor branches		Import sources into CVS, using vendor branches
A.14 log—Print out log information for files		Show log messages for files
A.15 rdiff—'patch' format diffs between releases		'patch' format diffs between releases
A.16 release—Indicate that a Module is no longer in use		Indicate that a directory is no longer in use
A.17 update—Bring work tree in sync with repository		Bring work tree in sync with repository