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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Appendix B. Subversion for CVS Users</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion" /><link rel="prev" href="svn.intro.quickstart.html" title="High-speed Tutorial" /><link rel="next" href="svn.forcvs.revnums.html" title="Revision Numbers Are Different Now" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Appendix B. Subversion for CVS Users</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.intro.quickstart.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.forcvs.revnums.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="appendix" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="svn.forcvs"></a>Appendix B. Subversion for CVS Users</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.revnums.html">Revision Numbers Are Different Now</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.directories.html">Directory Versions</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.disconnected.html">More Disconnected Operations</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.status-vs-update.html">Distinction Between Status and Update</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="svn.forcvs.status-vs-update.html#svn.forcvs.status-vs-update.status">Status</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="svn.forcvs.status-vs-update.html#svn.forcvs.status-vs-update.update">Update</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.branches-and-tags.html">Branches and Tags</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.properties.html">Metadata Properties</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.conflicts.html">Conflict Resolution</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.binary-and-trans.html">Binary Files and Translation</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.modules.html">Versioned Modules</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.auth.html">Authentication</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="svn.forcvs.convert.html">Converting a Repository from CVS to Subversion</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>This appendix is a guide for CVS users new to Subversion.
It's essentially a list of differences between the two systems
as “<span class="quote">viewed from 10,000 feet</span>”. For each section, we
provide backreferences to relevant chapters when
possible.</p><p>Although the goal of Subversion is to take over the current
and future CVS user base, some new features and design changes
were required to fix certain “<span class="quote">broken</span>” behaviors
that CVS had. This means that, as a CVS user, you may need to
break habits—ones that you forgot were odd to begin
with.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.intro.quickstart.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.forcvs.revnums.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">High-speed Tutorial </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Revision Numbers Are Different Now</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
