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those tags into branches in your source tree. We also discussed how to show
the history of those changes and the status of a source file. Finally, we took a
quick look at a GUI for use with CVS, for those so inclined.
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• The myriad of administrative commands which help you manage and
maintain a source library. Most of those commands you won't need, but
it's nice to know that they are available, just in case. Refer to the
Cederqvist document (Section 8.6) for all the gory details.
• How to set up remote users for sharing a CVS repository on a network,
especially the use of the
CVS_RSH
environment variable.
• How CVS integrates into development tools. We'll see this in the coming
chapters; for example, CVS interaction is built into NetBeans, SunONE
Studio, and Eclipse.
• How good it feels to have CVS come to the rescue so you can recover a
version of something that you thought was lost. May you never have to
learn this the hard way.
8.6
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•
Version Management with CVS
by Per Cederqvist et al. is the “official”
manual for CVS. It can be viewed as HTML or downloaded as HTML,
PDF, or PostScript from
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/
.
• Chapter 6 of
The LINUX Development Platform: Configuring, Using and
Maintaining a Complete Programming Environment
by Rafeeq Rehman and
Christopher Paul (ISBN 0130826758, Prentice Hall PTR) gives a good
introduction to CVS. They give more information, too, on jCVS as well
as on how to integrate CVS into Emacs.
