--- name: "mcvs" section: "1" platform: "linux" package: "mcvs" version: "1.0.13-17" release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/mcvs" --- # mcvs(1) version control system built around CVS ## NAME Meta-CVS - version control system built around CVS ## DESCRIPTION Meta-CVS command syntax: - mcvs \[ global-options \] command \[ command-options \] \[ command-arguments \] Global options: - **-H** **--help** Print this help and terminate. If a command is specified, help specific to that command is printed instead. - **-Q** Very quiet, generate output only for serious problems. (\*) - **-q** Somewhat quiet, some info messages suppressed. (\*) - **-n** Dry run; do not modify filesystem. (\*) - **--debug** Verbose debug output; **-Q** and **-q** are ignored but still passed to CVS. - **-r** Make working files read-only. (@) - **-w** Make new working files read-write (default). (@) - **-l** Do not log cvs command in command history, but execute it anyway. (@) - **-t** Trace CVS execution. (@) - **-v** **--version** Display version information and terminate. - **-f** CVS not to read ~/.cvsrc file. (@) - **-i** script-name Load a Lisp file and evaluate its top level forms, allowing Meta-CVS to behave as an interpreter. - **--meta** Include metafiles such as MCVS/MAP in the set of files to operate on. - **--metaonly** Operate only on metafiles. - **--nometa** Exclude metafiles from the set of files to operate on. - **--error-continue** Instead of interactive error handling, automatically continue all continuable errors. - **--error-terminate** Terminate with cleanup when an error happens instead of interactive error handling. - **-T** tempdir Place temporary files in tempdir. (@) - **-e** editor Edit messages with editor. (\*) - **-d** root Specify CVSROOT. (@) - **-z** gzip-level Specify compression level. (@) - **--up** N Escape out of N levels of sandbox nesting before executing operation. - Notes: (\*) option processed by Meta-CVS and passed to CVS too. - (@) option merely passed to CVS. Commands: - help Obtain more detailed help for a specific command. - create Create new project from an existing file tree. - grab Take a snapshot of an external source tree, such as a third-party release, and incorporate it into the working copy. Tries to discover file moves. - checkout (co) Retrieve a Meta-CVS project from the repository to create a working copy. - export (ex) Retrieve a Meta-CVS project without creating a working copy. - add Place files (or directories with add **-R**) under version control. - remove (rm) Remove files or directories. - move (mv) Rename files and directories. - link (ln) Create a versioned symbolic link. - update (up) Incorporate latest changes from repository into working copy. - commit (ci) Incorporate outstanding changes in the working copy into the repository. - diff Compute differences between files in the working copy and the repository or between revisions in the repository. - tag Associate a symbolic name with file revisions to create an identifiable baseline. By default, tags the revisions that were last synchronized with the directory. Note: tag **-b** creates a CVS branch, it won't be a Meta-CVS branch with managed merges. Consider the branch command instead! - log Display log information for files. - status (stat) Show current status of files. - annotate Perform a detailed analysis of files, showing the version information about every individual line of text. - filt (fi) Act as a text filter, which converts Meta-CVS F- file names to readable paths, according to the current mapping. - remote-filt (rfi) Remote version of filt, requires module name. - branch Create a managed branch. Meta-CVS managed branches keep track of what has been merged where, so users don't have to track merges with tags at all. - merge Merge a managed branch to the current branch or trunk. - remerge Re-apply the most recent merge without changing any tags. Useful when a merge goes bad so the local changes have to be discarded and the merge done over again. - list-branches (lb) List Meta-CVS managed branches. switch (sw) Switch to a branch. With no arguments, switch to - main trunk. - remap Force Meta-CVS to notice and incorporate moves and deletions that were performed directly on the sandbox. - purge Execute a CVS remove on files that have been unmapped with the remove command. - restore Restore files that have been deleted with the remove command, but not purged. These appear in the lost+found directory under cryptic names. - prop Manipulate properties. - prop **--set** \ \[ files ... \] prop **--clear** \ \[ files ... \] prop **--value** \ \ \[ files ... \] prop **--remove** \ \[ files ... \] - The \`\`exec'' property represents the execute permission of a file. More than one **--set**, **--clear**, **--value** or **--remove** may be specified before the files. - watch Manipulate per-file CVS watch settings. - watch **--on** \[ files ... \] watch **--off** \[ files ... \] watch **--add** \ \[ files ... \] watch **--remove** \ \[ files ... \] - watchers See who is watching files. - edit Indicate the intent to edit a watched file. - unedit Retract the indication signaled by edit. - editors See who is editing files. - sync-to-cvs Synchronize tree in the direction of the CVS sandbox. Useful when extending Meta-CVS with external scripts. - sync-from-cvs Synchronize CVS sandbox to the tree. - convert Convert a CVS module to a Meta-CVS project. This requires direct filesystem access to the repository. Caveat: this is a very blunt instrument.