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7. CVS Documentation

At unix prompt type -

  1. cvs --help
  2. cvs --help-options
  3. cvs --help-commands
  4. cvs -H checkout
  5. cvs -H commit
  6. man cvs
  7. man tkcvs
  8. Visit http://www.cyclic.com
  9. Visit http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html

The tkcvs http://www.tkcvs.org is the Tcl/Tk GUI interface to CVS. It also has online help.

There is also a Windows 95 client for CVS, and is called WinCVS http://www.wincvs.org and cyclicsite WinCVS can be used along with Samba(on cdrom samba*.rpm) - http://www.samba.org

The essential command are -

7.1 Online documentation

On linux systems, you can find the CVS documentation in postscript format at /usr/doc/cvs*/*.ps. Also there is FAQ and other useful information.


bash# cd /usr/doc/cvs*
bash# gv cvs.ps

7.2 CVS Org documentation

The documentation on CVS from "CVS Organisation" is at http://www.cvshome.org/docs

Official manual for CVS by Cederqvist is at http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html

FAQ for CVS is at http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/FAQ.txt

7.3 CVS Training


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