CVS Information

• The short CVS overview and the longer CVS datasheet list CVS features.
• Regarding support for CVS, our Why Support? introduces our support offerings. Standard Support will cover most small groups for $6000/year. Basic Support is available for CVS on Windows or Linux at $200/user.
• System Requirements (memory, disk, &c)
• CVS and the Year 2000
• CVS Security
• CVS and the World Wide Web
• Particular issues:
  • Concerned about whether to use the non-client/server CVS with a networked file system, or whether to use the client/server CVS?
  • Concerned about CVS's use of unreserved checkouts (parallel development) rather than reserved checkouts (RCS/SCCS style locking)?
  • Wondering how to handle developers at multiple locations or organizations?
  • Trying to keep track of all the different changes that developers are checking into CVS?
  • Wanting to control the level of access that different people have to CVS?
  • Planning to convert from another version control system to CVS?
• Known Bugs in CVS.

Information at Other Sites

• Sean Dreilinger's site includes CVS documentation, a search engine which is specific to CVS sites, and more.
• Pascal Molli's site includes a list of software related to CVS, and more.
• The "How can I do revision control?" page is a very nice introduction to why you may want to use version control at all (particularly aimed at programmers). The rest of the site looks nice too (those parts which are completed).

  CVS v1.12.12 Manual

• 1. Overview
• 2. The Repository
• 3. Starting a project with CVS
• 4. Revisions
• 5. Branching and merging
• 6. Recursive behavior
• 7. Adding, removing, and renaming files and directories
• 8. History browsing
• 9. Handling binary files
• 10. Multiple developers
• 11. Revision management
• 12. Keyword substitution
• 13. Tracking third-party sources
• 14. How your build system interacts with CVS
• 15. Special Files
• A. Guide to CVS commands
• B. Quick reference to CVS commands
• C. Reference manual for Administrative files
• D. All environment variables which affect CVS
• E. Compatibility between CVS Versions
• F. Troubleshooting
• G. Credits
• H. Dealing with bugs in CVS or this manual
• Index