The CVS Client/Server Protocol

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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