CVS Client/Server Scheme

• Introduction
• Goals
• How to Connect to and Authenticate Oneself to the CVS server
• Password scrambling algorithm
• The CVS client/server protocol
  • Entries Lines
  • File Modes
  • Conventions regarding transmission of file names
  • File transmissions
  • Strings
  • Dates
  • Request intro
  • Requests
  • Introduction to Responses
  • The "pathname" in responses
  • Responses
  • Tags for the MT tagged text response
  • Example
  • Required versus optional parts of the protocol
  • Obsolete protocol elements
• Notes on the Protocol

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