1 <sect1 id="ch03-introduction">
2 <title>Introduction</title>
3 <?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter03"?>
5 <para>The man and info pages of CVS are fairly good, but let's list a basic
6 set of commands which all editors will use on an almost daily basis. There
7 are many more options available than the ones listed here, so you will want
8 to read the CVS documentation at some point, and run the
9 <userinput>cvs --help</userinput> command. You can also get a basic list
10 of CVS commands by running <userinput>cvs --help-commands</userinput></para>
12 <para>Some commands have two forms, the long and the short. We'll
13 list both in the descriptions.</para>