This info manual describes how to use and administer CVS.
1. Overview – An introduction to CVS
2. The Repository – Where all your sources are stored
3. Starting a project with CVS
4. Revisions – Numeric and symbolic names for revisions
5. Branching and merging – Diverging/rejoining branches of development
6. Recursive behavior – CVS descends directories
7. Adding, removing, and renaming files and directories – Adding/removing/renaming files/directories
8. History browsing – Viewing the history of files in various ways
CVS and the Real World.
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9. Handling binary files – CVS can handle binary files
10. Multiple developers – How CVS helps a group of developers
11. Revision management – Policy questions for revision management
12. Keyword substitution – CVS can include the revision inside the file
13. Tracking third-party sources
14. How your build system interacts with CVS – Issues related to CVS and builds
15. Special Files – Devices, links and other non-regular files