[TriLUG] Topic for discussion

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Thanks for the info. It sounds like a form of SCCS.

I would like to know more of HOW to use it as an end user. For example, I
want to start using WINE for a few projects, but I currently download RPM's
(I'm running Mandrake and RH on my boxes) and on the newsgroups I get the
impression that using the latest "CVS" is better, and if there is a change,
it's easier to get the lastest "CVS" than to wait for someone to create an
RPM.

I don't understand HOW it works. I want to know that before I use something
that "powerful".

Any help is greatly appreciated.

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Wade Minter [mailto:minter at lunenburg.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:02 PM
To: 'Trilug-Triangle Linux Users Group'
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Topic for discussion


It's a version control system (Concurrent Versioning System, IIRC).  There
are several uses for it - I use it for two main things:

1) For version control on a software project I write.  CVS lets me track
back through every change to every source code file, so I can remember
what changed and when.  You can also use CVS to "tag" moments in time, so
if I want to see how my project looked at version 0.9, I can get it back
to that state exactly.

2) For a website I run, I have a development site and the live site.  I do
all of my changes in the devel site, commit them to CVS, and then check
them out in the live site.  It helps me test my changes, and lets me
quickly roll back to a known-good state if I make a mistake.

I'm not a CVS expert by any means, but I'd be glad to go into more detail
if you want.

--Wade


On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:

> I'm new to the CVS world.  Could someone explain what it is, and how it
> works?
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