CVS - Concurrent Versions System

   [1]Introduction | [2]News | [3]Documentation | [4]Get the Software | [5]Help and
   Bug Reports | [6]Development

[7]Introduction to CVS

   CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration
   Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and
   documents. It fills a similar role to the free software [8]RCS, [9]PRCS, and
   [10]Aegis packages.

   CVS is a production quality system in wide use around the world, including many
   free software projects.

   While CVS stores individual file history in the same format as RCS, it offers the
   following significant advantages over RCS:
     * It can run scripts which you can supply to log CVS operations or enforce
       site-specific policies.
     * Client/server CVS enables developers scattered by geography or slow modems to
       function as a single team. The version history is stored on a single central
       server and the client machines have a copy of all the files that the
       developers are working on. Therefore, the network between the client and the
       server must be up to perform CVS operations (such as checkins or updates) but
       need not be up to edit or manipulate the current versions of the files.
       Clients can perform all the same operations which are available locally.
     * In cases where several developers or teams want to each maintain their own
       version of the files, because of geography and/or policy, CVS's vendor
       branches can import a version from another team (even if they don't use CVS),
       and then CVS can merge the changes from the vendor branch with the latest
       files if that is what is desired.
     * Unreserved checkouts, allowing more than one developer to work on the same
       files at the same time.
     * CVS provides a flexible modules database that provides a symbolic mapping of
       names to components of a larger software distribution. It applies names to
       collections of directories and files. A single command can manipulate the
       entire collection.
     * CVS servers run on most unix variants, and clients for Windows NT/95, OS/2
       and VMS are also available. CVS will also operate in what is sometimes called
       server mode against local repositories on Windows 95/NT.

[11]CVS News

   Recent CVS news, including release announcements, are posted on the [12]NEWS
   page. To receive the same news via email, subscribe to the [13]cvs-announce
   mailing list (these announcements are duplicated on the bug-cvs@nongnu.org and
   info-cvs@nongnu.org [14]mailing lists).

[15]CVS Documentation

   The manual is available from [16]ximbiot.com (archived), and [17]gnu.org.

[18]Downloading CVS

   CVS can be downloaded from [19]https://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/ or one of the
   [20]mirrors (make sure to check the non-gnu/cvs directory on the mirrors). For
   other ways to obtain CVS, please read [21]How to get GNU Software.

[22]CVS Help and Bug Reports

   Help requests and bug reports are handled for free, on a volunteer basis, on the
   [23]CVS Mailing Lists.

   Companies offering commercial support for CVS are listed in the [24]CVS Wiki. You
   may also wish to look at [25]March Hare for CVSNT support as well as [26]Syntevo
   for SmtartCVS.

[27]CVS Development

   You may browse the [28]current CVS sources on [29]Savannah.

   You may also view the [30]project pages.
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   This page Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Derek Robert Price & Ximbiot and Copyright (C)
   1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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   Updated: $Date: 2019/10/27 16:30:42 $ $Author: th_g $

References

   1. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#introduction
   2. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#news
   3. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#documentation
   4. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#downloading
   5. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#mailinglists
   6. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#development
   7. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#TOCintroduction
   8. https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/rcs.html
   9. http://prcs.sourceforge.net/
  10. http://aegis.sourceforge.net/
  11. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#TOCnews
  12. https://savannah.nongnu.org/news/?group=cvs
  13. https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-announce
  14. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#mailinglists
  15. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#TOCdocumentation
  16. https://web.archive.org/web/20140709051732/http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/
  17. https://www.gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/cvs
  18. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#TOCdownloading
  19. https://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs
  20. https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
  21. https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html#getgnu
  22. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#TOCmailinglists
  23. https://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=cvs
  24. https://web.archive.org/web/20101130125020/http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/
  25. https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/
  26. https://www.syntevo.com/blog/?s=cvs
  27. http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/#TOCdevelopment
  28. https://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cvs/ccvs/
  29. http://savannah.nongnu.org/
  30. https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/cvs/
  31. https://www.gnu.org/home.html
  32. mailto:gnu@gnu.org
  33. https://www.gnu.org/contact/
  34. mailto:webmasters@gnu.org
  35. mailto:bug-cvs@gnu.org
  36. mailto:gnu@gnu.org