CVS CVS helps to parallelize software development and fullfills the need in the UNIX community for a freely available tool to manage software revision and release control in a multi-group environment. This tool also addresses the increasing need for tracking third-party vendor source distributions while trying to maintain local modifications to earlier releases. CVS is a tool freely available with GNU sources for UNIX which hides the full power of RCS (Revision Control System) and uses some modified UNIX tools (i.e diff). These products are available via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu. Also a remote-CVS source and documentation is available via anonymous ftp from heplib.slac.standford.edu and may become standard part of CVS in the future.

Current Version:   1.10.7 License Type:   GPL

Home Site: http://www.cyclic.com/ http://www.gnu.org/software/cvs/cvs.html ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cvs/ Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   Yes, http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages RedHat RPM Package:   Yes, ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/current/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ (cvs-*) Other Packages:   No Targeted Platforms: UNIX Software/Hardware Requirements: None

Other Links: http://rd13doc.cern.ch/public/doc/Note58.html http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/cvs/ Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: None User Comments: Linux Journal, No.21, January, 1996 See A Screen Shot? (Not Yet)

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