The CVS (cvsnt) Client/Server Protocol 2.5.03.2704
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The CVS (cvsnt) Client/Server Protocol 2.5.03.2704

cvsnt 2.5.03.2704

Abstract

This info manual describes the CVS Client/server Protocol

Table of Contents

1. CVS Client/Server
2. Introduction
3. Goals
4. How to Connect to and Authenticate Oneself to the CVS server
5. Connection strings
6. Password scrambling algorithm
7. 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
8. Notes on the Protocol
Index
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