Explain CVS and CVS commands

Question

Explain CVS? List some useful CVS commands?

Answer 1

CVS stand for Concurrent Version System. It is front end to the RCS revision control system that extends the notion of revision control from a group of files in a single directory to a hierarchical collection of directories consisting of revision controlled files. These directories & files can be joined together to form a software release.

There are some useful commands which are being used very often. They are following

•  cvs update     
  
• cvs checkout    
• cvs add
• cvs remove
• cvs commit