About this manual
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   Up to this point, one of the weakest parts of CVS has been the
documentation.  CVS is a complex program.  Previous versions of the
manual were written in the manual page format, which is not really well
suited for such a complex program.

   When writing this manual, I had several goals in mind:

   * No knowledge of RCS should be necessary.

   * No previous knowledge of revision control software should be
     necessary.  All terms, such as "revision numbers", "revision
     trees" and "merging" are explained as they are introduced.

   * The manual should concentrate on the things CVS users want to do,
     instead of what the CVS commands can do.  The first part of this
     manual leads you through things you might want to do while doing
     development, and introduces the relevant CVS commands as they are
     needed.

   * Information should be easy to find.  In the reference manual in
     the appendices almost all information about every CVS command is
     gathered together.  There is also an extensive index, and a lot of
     cross references.

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