Reply With Quoteanother thing is that when you download a CVS, it will make it own folder, and you can just install by following the simple steps in the README or whatever txt doc they put it in. it is basically a tarball that looks a hair different.
CVS, what the hell is that?
CVS stands for Concurrent Version Control System. Actually, CVS is just RCS(Revision Control System) with an application interface on it. What CVS does is record the _differences_ between each version. Also, it allows many people to work on the same version at once. it can be used for C, C++, java, perl, html and others. now maybe you see its importance to Dev's since many can work at once and have their own stable branchs.
Here are some beginner commands that will help you get started:
cvs --help
cvs --help-options
cvs --help-commands
cvs -H checkout
cvs -H commit
man cvs
man tkcvs
i extrapolated my info from:
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HO...WTO.html#toc22
Goodluck,
Babbing
another thing is that when you download a CVS, it will make it own folder, and you can just install by following the simple steps in the README or whatever txt doc they put it in. it is basically a tarball that looks a hair different.
so, its like a hairball??? ;D ;D ;D
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CVS is sweet. Although, be wary of downloaded the current tree image for certain programs, as it is often unstable due to lack of usage.
ROFL, yes it is a hairball, maybe CVS should really be HBL :-P
Right, so i know what it does.
When will i need it?
CVS is "bleeding edge" software, sometimes having code edited a few minutes ago...
Maybe you submitted a feature request to your favourite app, and the developer made the change, it would now be in CVS. but the next release might not be made for another month, if you want that feature _now_, grab the CVS, tho theres no security in it working, sometime CVS versions don't even compile.. :-\
whatdoyougetwhenyoumultiplysixbynine??
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