CVS Source Code Version Management

 CVS (Concurrent Versions System) provides network-transparent source control for groups of developers. The freely available system is build on top of RCS (Revision Control System) and supports parallel development, allowing more than one software developer to work on the same group of sources at the same time.

Documentation:

  

• CVS Reference Manual online and PostScript version ;

• CVS Client/Server Documentation online and PostScript version ;

• ``CVS II: Parallelizing Software Development'', Berliner [1990], provides a compact overview of the techniques employed in CVS;

• The book ``Practical Software Configuration Management'', Mikkelsen and Pherigo [1997], offers an introduction to configuration management especially for small teams (or individuals) and mentions also CVS.
  

Useful Links:

  

• CERN's Quick CVS Introduction and Tutorial ;

• Cyclic Software , the maintainer of CVS provides in particular information related to the development of CVS and a WWW page for getting the software ;

• General information concerning CVS - including an extensive list of related tools - is available at CRIN and INRIA Lorraine in Nancy.