CVS Tips

Some tasks that people frequently ask how to achieve when using CVS.

To check which files are not in CVS

cvs -qn update | grep "^?" | cut -f 2 -d " "

To check which files have neen changed by others since your last update

cvs -qn update

To get a previous version of a file and save it locally under a different name

To rename a file

To rename a directory

To prevent keyword values ($Id etc) being modified in third party libraries

TODO:
Add links to CVS books (pragmatic source control), ORA book
add notes on -n
add notes on cut
links to source of info on plumbing?