Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Goals
3. How to Connect to and Authenticate Oneself to the CVS server
4. Password scrambling algorithm
5. The CVS client/server protocol

5.1 Entries Lines
5.2 File Modes
5.3 Conventions regarding transmission of file names
5.4 File transmissions
5.5 Strings
5.6 Dates
5.7 Request intro
5.8 Requests
5.9 Introduction to Responses
5.10 The "pathname" in responses
5.11 Responses
5.12 Tags for the MT tagged text response
5.13 Example
5.14 Required versus optional parts of the protocol
5.15 Obsolete protocol elements

6. Notes on the Protocol