Basic Commands of CVS

We list some more basic commands. Please refer to, e.g., http://www.cvshome.org/ for a more detailed description.

• Retrieving a local copy of a specified directory <name> under CVS
  cvs checkout <name>
• Updating the local copy (the whole directory or a single file <file>) from the CVS repository
  cvs update     or      cvs update <file>
• Committing changed files (all changed files or a single file <file>) to the CVS repository
  cvs commit -m "<comment>"     or
  cvs commit -m "<comment>" <file>
• Adding a (new) directory or file <file> to the CVS repository
  cvs add <file>
  cvs commit -m "<comment>" <file>
• Removing a directory or file <file> from the CVS repository
  cvs remove <file>
  cvs commit -m "<comment>" <file>
• Reading the log of a file under CVS
  cvs log <file>

$\Rightarrow$ Tutorial 1:

In the directory exp/examples/sorting you will find a Makefile and a C source file sort-demo.c. Put these source files under CVS control.

Solution:

Assuming that a CVS repository was set up:

cd exp/examples/sorting
cvs import -m "sorting sources imported" sorting sort start

Next, get a local copy of the imported sources (here in ~/sorting):

cd
cvs checkout sorting