Distributed Software Development with CVS

(aka Where did that method come from?)

by Leeland Artra
Comprehensive Biology Project
University of Washington


Table of Contents


  1. Table of Contents
  2. Title Page
  3. Version Control
  4. Why Use Version Control?
  5. How Version Control can help
  6. Third Place Ribbon: Source Code Control System (SCCS)
  7. Second Place Ribbon: Revision Control System (RCS)
  8. The Winner: Concurrent Versioning System (CVS)
  9. What Is ?
  10. The Repository
  11. Versioning within CVS
  12. *Adding / Editing / Committing / Updating
  13. Adding / *Editing / Committing / *Updating
  14. *Adding / Editing / Committing / Updating
  15. Adding / Editing / *Committing / Updating
  16. Conflicts
  17. Remote Access: Server Side
  18. Remote Access: Client Side
  19. Logging / Annotations
  20. Logging / Annotations
  21. Keyword expansion
  22. Branches