| This easy-to-follow reference shows a variety of
professionals how to use the Concurrent Versions System
(CVS), the open source tool that lets you manage versions of
anything stored in files. Ideal for software developers
tracking different versions of the same code, this new
edition has been expanded to explain common usages of CVS
for system administrators, project managers, software
architects, user-interface (UI) specialists, graphic
designers and others.
Current for version 1.12, Essential CVS, 2nd Edition offers
an overview of CVS, explains the core concepts, and
describes the commands that most people use on a day-to-day
basis. For those who need to get up to speed rapidly, the
book's Quickstart Guide shows you how to build and use a
basic CVS repository with the default settings and a minimum
of extras. You'll also find:
A full command reference that details all aspects of
customizing CVS for automation, logging, branching, merging
documents, and creating alerts
Examples and descriptions of the most commonly used options
for each command
Why and when to tag or branch your project, tagging before
releases, and using branching to create a bugfix version of
a project
Details on the systems used in CVS to permit multiple
developers to work on the same project without loss of data
An entire section devoted to document version management and
project management includes ways to import and export
projects, work with remote repositories, and shows how to
fix things that can go wrong when using CVS. You'll find
more screenshots in this edition as well as examples of
using graphical CVS clients to run CVS commands. Essential
CVS also includes a FAQ that answers common queries in the
CVS mailing list to get you up and running with this system
quickly and painlessly.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT 
Published by: O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES