CVS-1.11.6

Introduction to CVS

CVS is the concurrent versioning system. This is useful for projects on which multiple people are working or where archives of previous versions of files need to be kept.

Package information

Installation of CVS

Install cvs by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Configuring CVS

Config files

~/.cvsrc, ~/.cvswrappers

Configuration Information

~/.cvsrc is the main CVS configuration file. This file is used by users to specify defaults for different cvs commands, for example to make all cvs diff commands run with -u, a user would add diff -u to their .cvsrc file.

~/.cvswrappers specifies wrappers to be used in addition to those specified in the CVSROOT/cvswrappers file in the repository.

Contents

The CVS package contains cvs, cvsbug and rcs2log .

Description

cvs

This is the main program file for the concurrent versioning system.

cvsbug

This is used to send problem reports about CVS to a central support site.

rcs2log

RCS to Change Log generator.