Last modified on Mar 8 2005
cvs -- CVS is the Concurrent Versions System, the dominant open-source network-transparent version control system. Version control system and important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Lets you record the history of source files and documents. It's similar to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis programs, but has the following significant advantages over RCS: runs user scripts to log operations or enforce site-specific policies lets separatedevelopers operate as a team vendor branches keep versions separate, but also merge them if needed unreserved checkouts let developers work simultaneously on the same files flexible modules database maps names to the components of a larger database runs on most Unix variants; clients for Windows 95/NT, OS/2, and VMS available NOTE: FROM THE CVS WEBSITE. This version fixes a serious security hole in the CVS server executable as well as fixing several other minor bugs in both the CVS client and server. We recommend this upgrade for all CVS clients and servers!
Man pages:
| cvs |
| cvsmanual |