CVS is the Concurrent Versioning System. This is a version control system useful for projects using a central repository to hold files and then tracks all changes made to those files. These instruction install the client used to manuplate the repository, creation of a repository is covered at cvsserver.
Download (HTTP): http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/sf/s/scmlinux/cvs-1.11.6.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.cvshome.org/pub/release/stable/cvs-1.11.6/cvs-1.11.6.tar.bz2
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.37 SBU
Install cvs by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install |
~/.cvsrc, ~/.cvswrappers
~/.cvsrc is the main CVS configuration file. This file is used by users to specify defaults for different cvs commands, for example to make all cvs diff commands run with -u, a user would add diff -u to their .cvsrc file.
~/.cvswrappers specifies wrappers to be used in addition to those specified in the CVSROOT/cvswrappers file in the repository.
The CVS package contains cvs, cvsbug and rcs2log .
This is the main program file for the concurrent versioning system.
This is used to send problem reports about CVS to a central support site.
RCS to Change Log generator.