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CVS Kit
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Copyright (C) 1986-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Portions Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Derek Price,
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& Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>.
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Portions Copyright (C) 1993-1994 Brian Berliner.
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Portions Copyright (C) 1992 Brian Berliner and Jeff Polk.
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Portions 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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Welcome to CVS!
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1997-05-15 22:46:24 +00:00
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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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1997-05-15 22:46:24 +00:00
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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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Verifying the Integrity of Downloads:
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The official CVS source and binary releases are signed by the CVS maintainer
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who generated them. This does not imply any sort of warranty, but it does mean
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that you can verify that the file you downloaded did, in fact, come from a CVS
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maintainer.
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The OpenPGP keys of the CVS maintainers who have submitted them are in the KEYS
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file of the CVS distribution and are also available from many OpenPGP key
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servers. It is recommended that you verify the key fingerprints against an
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external source, however you obtain the key.
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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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2000-10-02 06:33:59 +00:00
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See also
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http://cvs.nongnu.org
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http://www.cvsnt.org
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Anyone can add themselves to the following mailing lists:
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bug-cvs: This is the list which users are requested to send bug reports
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to. General CVS development and design discussions also tend to take
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place on this list.
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info-cvs: This list is intended for user questions, including general
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help requests.
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cvs-announce: CVS release announcements and other major
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announcements about the project are sent to this list.
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cvs-announce-binaries: Announcements are made to this list
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when binaries for various platforms are built and initially
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posted for download.
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To subscribe to any of these lists, send mail to <list>-request@nongnu.org
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or visit http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=cvs and follow the instructions
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for the list you wish to subscribe to.
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The newsgroup for CVS (and other configuration management systems) is
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comp.software.config-mgmt. The gnu.cvs.help newsgroup is a 2-way mirror
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of the info-cvs@nongnu.org mailing list and gnu.cvs.bug is similarly a 2-way
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mirror of bug-cvs@nongnu.org.
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2004-04-15 01:01:56 +00:00
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Credits: See the AUTHORS file.
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