Commit your work

From within the directory where I have the new file I run the following:

[A-Hacker@work]$  cvs commit

cvs commit: Examining .
A-Hacker@cvs.tenforty.sourceforge.net's password:<PassWord4Login>

RCS file: /cvsroot/tenforty/documentation/cvs-quickstartv0.2.sgml,v

Because I didn't specify the- m switch the CVS server opens VI for me to enter a message about this version of the file:

CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically CVS: CVS: Committing in . CVS: CVS: Added Files: CVS: cvs-quickstartv0.2.sgml CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Initial version of this. Still Alpha. ~ ~ :wq done

Only the lines I enter will be shown by the server. So I leave some concise yet fulsome statement of what I have done.

CVS then does the commit ...

Checking in cvs-quickstartv0.2.sgml; /cvsroot/tenforty/documentation/cvs-quickstartv0.2.sgml,v <-- cvs-quickstartv0.2.sgml initial revision: 1.1 done

and tells me the location, version number and in this case the success of the commit, (no conflicts).