Essential CVS: Version Control and Source Code Management

by Jennifer Vesperman

This easy-to-follow reference shows a variety of professionals how to use the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), the open source tool that lets you manage versions of anything stored in files. Ideal for software developers tracking different versions of the same code, this new edition has been expanded to explain common usages of CVS for system administrators, project managers, software architects, user-interface (UI) specialists, graphic designers and others. Current for version 1.12, Essential CVS , 2nd Edition offers an overview of CVS, explains the core concepts, and describes the commands that most people use on a day-to-day basis. For those who need to get up to speed rapidly, the book's Quickstart Guide shows you how to build and use a basic CVS repository with the default settings and a minimum of extras. You'll also An entire section devoted to document version management and project management includes ways to import and export projects, work with remote repositories, and shows how to fix things that can go wrong when using CVS. You'll find more screenshots in this edition as well as examples of using graphical CVS clients to run CVS commands. Essential CVS also includes a FAQ that answers common queries in the CVS mailing list to get you up and running with this system quickly and painlessly.

Genres: Programming, Computers, Technology, Computer Science, Technical, Nonfiction

427 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2003

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fair reference on CVS. If you're willing put up with CVS, you should (you better) be able to put up with this book about it. As it is, I ended up not being willing to put up with CVS, so I abandoned the book. It's not the book's fault -- the book lived up to my usual high expectations of O'Reilly.

[Mark Caraway · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, simple book for someone new to CVS admin or in need of basic usage, philosophy, and/or planning of your CVS. This book should and can get you started.