PCL-CVS

This manual describes PCL-CVS, the GNU Emacs front-end to CVS. It is nowhere near complete, so you are advised to use M-x customize-group RET pcl-cvs RET and to look at the documentation strings of the various commands and major modes for further information.

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Table of Contents

• 1 About PCL-CVS

  • 1.1 Contributors to PCL-CVS

• 2 Getting started

• 3 Buffer contents

• 4 Selected files

• 5 Commands

  • 5.1 Entering PCL-CVS
  • 5.2 Setting flags for CVS commands
  • 5.3 Updating the *cvs* buffer
  • 5.4 Movement Commands
  • 5.5 Marking files
  • 5.6 Committing changes
  • 5.7 Editing files
  • 5.8 Getting info about files
  • 5.9 Adding and removing files
  • 5.10 Undoing changes
  • 5.11 Removing handled entries
  • 5.12 Ignoring files
  • 5.13 Viewing differences
  • 5.14 Running ediff
  • 5.15 Updating files
  • 5.16 Tagging files
  • 5.17 Miscellaneous commands

• 6 Editing a Log Message

• 7 Browsing a Log of Changes

• 8 Customization

  • 8.1 Customizing Faces

• 9 Bugs (known and unknown)

• Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License

• Function and Variable Index

• Concept Index

• Key Index