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How to get more information about CVS commands.

All CVS commands take a -H option to give help:

cvs -H

shows you the options and commands in cvs.

cvs history -H

shows you the options for CVS history.

All the CVS commands mentioned also accept a flag -n, that doesn't do the action, but lets you see what would happen. For instance, you can use cvs -n update to see which files would be updated.

To get more information, see the manual page man cvs for full (and much more complicated) details.

A basic knowledge of the Revision Control System (RCS) on which CVS is layered may also be of some assistance. see man co or man ci for more details.

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