12.5. VC Command Summary

To give you the flavor of the other things VC can do for you, Table 12-1 provides a summary of VC commands. Each one will be explained in detail, but you can probably guess some of their actions from the command names.

Table 12-1. VC commands

Keystrokes	Command name	Action
C-x v v	vc-next-action	Go to the next logical version control state.
C-x v d	vc-directory	Show all registered files beneath a directory.
C-x v =	vc-diff	Generate a version difference report.
C-x v u	vc-revert-buffer	Throw away changes since the last checked-in revision.
C-x v ~	vc-version-other-window	Retrieve a given revision in another window.
C-x v l	vc-print-log	Display a file's change comments and history.
C-x v i	vc-register	Register a file for version control.
C-x v h	vc-insert-headers	Insert version control headers in a file.
C-x v r	vc-retrieve-snapshot	Check out a named project snapshot.
C-x v s	vc-create-snapshot	Create a named project snapshot.
C-x v c	vc-cancel-version	Throw away a saved revision.
C-x v a	vc-update-change-log	Update a GNU-style ChangeLog file.

These commands are ordered in the table roughly by decreasing frequency of use. This is also the order in which we'll describe them in the following sections. All VC commands have the common prefix C-x v. Your fingers will learn this prefix quickly, and all you usually have to remember is the single command suffix. Two minor commands, vc-rename-file and vc-clear-context, are not bound to keys. They are explained later on.