1. Overview

This chapter is for people who have never used CVS, and perhaps have never used version control software before.

If you are already familiar with CVS and are just trying to learn a particular feature or remember a certain command, you can probably skip everything here.

1.1 What is CVS?		What you can do with CVS
1.2 What is CVS not?		Problems CVS doesn't try to solve
1.3 A sample session		A tour of basic CVS usage