Source Code Management Matrix - A CVS, Subversion, and Git Reference Table

Today I had to check in into CVS after millions of years having passed since I last invoked cvs in a terminal. I was really surprised how much I forgot about the tool I was using on a daily basis, several million years ago. As I converted towards using Git mostly and need to use SVN occasionally I decided to make my own little SCM Matrix here, to remember just the basics. Of course, CVS, SVN, and Git work completely different and creating a repository in CVS has very little in common with creating a repository in Git. However, I assume the reader knows the basic concept of the three SCMs and just needs to remember the correct syntax to get the things done. Here we go:

	CVS	SVN	Git
init	`cvs -d /path/to/repo init`	`svnadmin create /path/to/repo`	`git init`
import	`cd /path/to/sourcescvs -d ... import projectname dev beta`	`svn import /path/to/sources file:///path/to/repo`	`cp -r /path/to/sources/* .git add .git commit`
add	`cvs add filename`	`svn add filename`	`git add filename`
commit	`cvs commit`	`svn commit`	`git commit`
update	`cvs up`	`svn up`	`git fetchgit merge`

More details can be found in the man pages or using the command line help of the specific tool. Hope you find this one useful!
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