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Figure 8.7
jCVS checkout screen
Conspicuous in its absence on the jCVS Web site is a good user manual.
Since we're proponents of the command line, don't look for it here, either.
Many, if not most, Java developers these days will be using, at least part
of the time, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). One of the tools
that these IDEs integrate is a source code manager, and typically for Open
Source tools that means CVS. So while we're not giving you much info on
jCVS, you will find a useful GUI for CVS inside most IDEs.
8.4
R
EVIEW
This chapter has been all about CVS, one of the great jems of the Open Source
world. Projects all across the globe depend on CVS to track their source
changes, as programmers half a world away collaborate and share source.
We discussed how to import source files into CVS and how to get them
back out. We discussed the mechanism for checking in changes and how to
sort out collisions for the rare occasions when automatic merges don't succeed.
We described how to tag a set of source files for later retrieval, and how to make
