Commit Command
When you are ready for others to see your changes, you issue a commit command. The syntax is
cvs commit -m "this is a message about what changed" [file name]
The shortcut is cvs ci -m"xxx" This was originally "check in" when RCS was a lock-modify-unlock system.
If you do not list a file name, commit will recursively go through all the folders and commit all modified, added and removed files.