From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 13 14:55:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18722 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 14:55:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sl-020.sl.cybercomm.net (sl-020.sl.cybercomm.net [199.171.196.148]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18712 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 14:55:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sl-020.sl.cybercomm.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sl-020.sl.cybercomm.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA02955; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 17:55:21 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 17:55:20 -0500 (EST) From: Sujal Patel X-Sender: smpatel@localhost To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: rcs/cvs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Jan 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > Could anyone out there who's used rcs/cvs for version control please give > me any pointers they might have for likely things to read to help me The most important commands for RCS are (You can look at the man page for each command for more info): co -l (check out and lock) co -u (check out a read-only copy) ci -l (check in, but keep lock) ci -u (check in and unlock) rlog (look at revision history) rcs -u (break lock) CVS is a bit more complex. There is a lot of good information at: http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html Sujal