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  $CVSROOT
    |
    +--yoyodyne
    |   |
    |   +--tc
    |   |   |
            +--Makefile,v
            +--backend.c,v
            +--driver.c,v
            +--frontend.c,v
            +--parser.c,v
            +--man
            |    |
            |    +--tc.1,v
            |     
            +--testing
                 |
                 +--testpgm.t,v
                 +--test2.t,v

The figure above shows the contents of the `tc' module inside the repository. As you can see all file names end in `,v'. The files are history files. They contain, among other things, enough information to recreate any revision of the file, a log of all commit messages and the user-name of the person who committed the revision. CVS uses the facilities of RCS, a simpler version control system, to maintain these files. For a full description of the file format, see the man page rcsfile(5).

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