CVS Tutorial

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CVS Tutorial

• By Kunwu Feng
• Jan 20, 2006

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Outline

• What is CVS
• Why CVS important

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What is CVS

• CVS is a version control system.
• Using it, you can record the history of your
  source files.

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Why CVS important

• Easy to modify codes
• Team work

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What is CVS not

• Not a build system
• Not a substitute for management
• Not a substitute for developer communication
• Not an automated testing program

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A sample session

• Getting the source cvs checkout CS6354
• Committing your changes cvs commit backend.c
• Cleaning up cvs release -d CS6354
• View differences cvs diff driver.c

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The Repository

• Stores a complete copy of all the files and
  directories which are under version control
• Telling CVS where your repository is setenv
  CVSROOT /usr/local/cvsroot