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## release--Indicate that a Module is no longer in use

- release [-d] directories...
- Requires: Working directory.
- Changes: Working directory, history log.

This command is meant to safely cancel the effect of ``cvs checkout'`. Since CVS doesn't lock files, it isn't strictly necessary to use this command. You can always simply delete your working directory, if you like; but you risk losing changes you may have forgotten, and you leave no trace in the CVS history file (see section The history file) that you've abandoned your checkout.

Use ``cvs release'` to avoid these problems. This command checks that no uncommitted changes are present; that you are executing it from immediately above a CVS working directory; and that the repository recorded for your files is the same as the repository defined in the module database.

If all these conditions are true, ``cvs release'` leaves a record of its execution (attesting to your intentionally abandoning your checkout) in the CVS history log.

- release options: release options
- release output: release output
- release examples: release examples

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