Introduction

• What is CVS?
  • "Configuration Management" system.
  • Grew out of someone's scripts built over RCS.
  • Very fully featured.
  • Client/Server mode.
• Motivation
  • Essential for multiple developers.
  • Good for developing at home/school.
  • Makes it harder to shoot yourself in the foot.
  • It's really easy to use.
• The Repository
  • RCS archives are kept in a different (remote) directory.
  • Contains some extra configuration files.
  • Source for multiple independent projects can be in the same repository.
• CVS Model
  • Check in/out operates on whole directory hiearchies.
  • Files are not locked like in RCS.
  • Instead, changes to the same files are merged together.