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Common CVS Tasks

The following lists show the syntax to use in performing common CVS tasks. Remember that for any CVS command you can specify the repository path using the -d option. For example:

cvs -d repository_path checkout
project

For brevity, the -d option is not shown in any of the example commands. However, it can be added to any of the commands.

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