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CVS Kit
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Copyright (c) 1993-1994 Brian Berliner
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Copyright (c) 1992 Brian Berliner and Jeff Polk
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Copyright (c) 1989-1992, Brian Berliner
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All Rights Reserved
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Welcome to CVS!
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If you have problems or think you have found a bug in CVS, see the
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section BUGS in the CVS manual (also known as Version Management with
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CVS by Per Cederqvist et al, or cvs.texinfo--see below for details).
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If you are thinking of submitting changes to CVS, see the
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file HACKING.
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Please consult the INSTALL file for information on tested
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configurations. If you have a comment about an already tested
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configuration, or have tried CVS on a new configuration, please let us
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know as described in INSTALL. Free software only works if we all help
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out.
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Finally, we cannot guarantee that this release will not completely wipe out
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all of your work from your system. We do some simple testing before each
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release, but you are completely on your own. We recommend testing this
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release on a source repository that is not critical to your work. THIS
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SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED COMPLETELY "AS IS". NO WARRANTY....
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Thanks for your support!
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-The CVS Team
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What Is CVS?
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CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
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of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why
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changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. It handles multiple
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developers, multiple directories, triggers to enable/log/control
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various operations, and can work over a wide area network. The
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following tasks are not included; they can be done in conjunction with
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CVS but will tend to require some script-writing and software other
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than CVS: bug-tracking, build management (that is, make and make-like
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tools), and automated testing.
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And a whole lot more. See the manual for more information.
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Notes to people upgrading from a previous release of CVS:
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See the NEWS file for a description of features new in this version.
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See the Compatibility section of the manual for information on
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compatibility between CVS versions. The quick summary is that as long
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as you not using the optional watch features, there are no
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compatibility problems with CVS 1.5 or later.
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Installation:
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Please read the INSTALL file for installation instructions. Brief summary:
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$ ./configure
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$ make
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(run the regression tests if desired)
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$ make install
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(create a repository if you don't already have one)
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The documentation is in the doc subdirectory. cvs.texinfo is the main
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manual; cvs.info* and cvs.ps are the info and postscript versions,
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respectively, generated from cvs.texinfo. The postscript version is
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for US letter size paper; we do this not because we consider this size
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"better" than A4, but because we believe that the US letter version
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will print better on A4 paper than the other way around. If you want a
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version formatted for A4, add the line @afourpaper near the start of
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cvs.texinfo and re-generate cvs.ps using TeX.
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* How do I get up-to-date information and information about other
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versions of CVS?
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On the web, http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html.
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The mailing list for CVS is info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu. Send
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subscription and removal requests for that list to
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info-cvs-request@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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The newsgroup for CVS (and other configuration management systems) is
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comp.software.config-mgmt. There is not yet a CVS-specific newsgroup,
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but perhaps if comp.software.config-mgmt gets enough CVS discussion,
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then it will be possible to create one.
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Credits:
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The conflict-resolution algorithms and much of the administrative file
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definitions of CVS were based on the original package written by Dick Grune
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at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam <dick@cs.vu.nl>, and posted to
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comp.sources.unix in the volume 6 release sometime in 1986. This original
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version was a collection of shell scripts. I am thankful that Dick made
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his work available.
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Brian Berliner from Prisma, Inc. (now at Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
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<berliner@sun.com> converted the original CVS shell scripts into reasonably
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fast C and added many, many features to support software release control
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functions. See the manual page in the "man" directory. A copy of the
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USENIX article presented at the Winter 1990 USENIX Conference, Washington
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D.C., is included in the "doc" directory.
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Jeff Polk from BSDI <polk@bsdi.com> converted the CVS 1.2
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sources into much more readable and maintainable C code. He also added a
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whole lot of functionality and modularity to the code in the process.
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See the bottom of the NEWS file (from about 1992).
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david d `zoo' zuhn <zoo@armadillo.com> contributed the working base code
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for CVS 1.4 Alpha. His work carries on from work done by K. Richard Pixley
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and others at Cygnus Support. The CVS 1.4 upgrade is due in large part to
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Zoo's efforts.
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David G. Grubbs <dgg@odi.com> contributed the CVS "history" and "release"
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commands. As well as the ever-so-useful "-n" option of CVS which tells CVS
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to show what it would do, without actually doing it. He also contributed
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support for the .cvsignore file.
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The Free Software Foundation (GNU) contributed most of the portability
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framework that CVS now uses. This can be found in the "configure" script,
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the Makefile's, and basically most of the "lib" directory.
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K. Richard Pixley, Cygnus Support <rich@cygnus.com> contributed many bug
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fixes/enhancement as well as completing early reviews of the CVS 1.3 manual
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pages.
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Roland Pesch, then of Cygnus Support <roland@wrs.com> contributed
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brand new cvs(1) and cvs(5) manual pages. Thanks to him for saving us
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from poor use of our language!
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Paul Sander, HaL Computer Systems, Inc. <paul@hal.com> wrote and
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contributed the code in lib/sighandle.c. I added support for POSIX, BSD,
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and non-POSIX/non-BSD systems.
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Jim Kingdon and others at Cygnus Support <info@cygnus.com> wrote the
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remote repository access code.
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There have been many, many contributions not listed here. Consult the
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ChangeLog files in each directory for a more complete idea.
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In addition to the above contributors, the following Beta testers
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deserve special mention for their support. This is only a partial
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list; if you have helped in this way and would like to be listed, let
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bug-cvs know (as described elsewhere in this file).
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Mark D. Baushke <mdb@cisco.com>
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Per Cederqvist <ceder@signum.se>
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J.T. Conklin <jtc@cygnus.com>
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Vince DeMarco <vdemarco@fdcsrvr.cs.mci.com>
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Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
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Lal George <george@research.att.com>
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Dean E. Hardi <Dean.E.Hardi@ccmail.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Mike Heath <mike@pencom.com>
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Jim Kingdon <kingdon@cygnus.com>
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Bernd Leibing <bernd.leibing@rz.uni-ulm.de>
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Benedict Lofstedt <benedict@tusc.com.au>
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Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
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Robert Lupton the Good <rhl@astro.princeton.edu>
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Tom McAliney <tom@hilco.com>
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Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Jim Meyering <meyering@comco.com>
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Thomas Mohr <mohr@lts.sel.alcatel.de>
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Thomas Nilsson <thoni@softlab.se>
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Raye Raskin <raye.raskin@lia.com>
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Harlan Stenn <harlan@landmark.com>
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Gunnar Tornblom <gunnar.tornblom@senet.abb.se>
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Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>
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Many contributors have added code to the "contrib" directory. See the
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README file there for a list of what is available. There is also a
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contributed GNU Emacs CVS-mode in tools/pcl-cvs.
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