PACKAGE NAME: cvs-1.11.19-i586-4vl5.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./cli/DEV PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 671 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1920 K PACKAGE MD5: daf706dec8cbd414138c98ef60b9809e ./cli/DEV/cvs-1.11.19-i586-4vl5.tgz PACKAGE REQUIRED: bash >= 3.0,perl >= 5.8.6 PACKAGE CONFLICTS: PACKAGE SUGGESTS: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: cvs: CVS Kit cvs: cvs: Copyright (C) 1986-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. cvs: cvs: Portions Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Derek Price, cvs: & Ximbiot . cvs: Portions Copyright (C) 1993-1994 Brian Berliner. cvs: Portions Copyright (C) 1992 Brian Berliner and Jeff Polk. cvs: Portions Copyright (C) 1989-1992 Brian Berliner. cvs: All Rights Reserved cvs: cvs: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify cvs: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by cvs: the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) cvs: any later version. cvs: cvs: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, cvs: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of cvs: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the cvs: GNU General Public License for more details. cvs: cvs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cvs: cvs: Welcome to CVS! cvs: cvs: If you have problems or think you have found a bug in CVS, see the cvs: section BUGS in the CVS manual (also known as Version Management with cvs: CVS by Per Cederqvist et al, or cvs.texinfo--see below for details). cvs: cvs: If you are thinking of submitting changes to CVS, see the cvs: file HACKING. cvs: cvs: Please consult the INSTALL file for information on tested cvs: configurations. If you have a comment about an already tested cvs: configuration, or have tried CVS on a new configuration, please let us cvs: know as described in INSTALL. Free software only works if we all help cvs: out. cvs: cvs: Finally, we cannot guarantee that this release will not completely wipe out cvs: all of your work from your system. We do some simple testing before each cvs: release, but you are completely on your own. We recommend testing this cvs: release on a source repository that is not critical to your work. THIS cvs: SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED COMPLETELY "AS IS". NO WARRANTY.... cvs: cvs: Thanks for your support! cvs: cvs: -The CVS Team cvs: cvs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cvs: cvs: What Is CVS? cvs: cvs: CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions cvs: of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why cvs: changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. It handles multiple cvs: developers, multiple directories, triggers to enable/log/control cvs: various operations, and can work over a wide area network. The cvs: following tasks are not included; they can be done in conjunction with cvs: CVS but will tend to require some script-writing and software other cvs: than CVS: bug-tracking, build management (that is, make and make-like cvs: tools), and automated testing. cvs: cvs: And a whole lot more. See the manual for more information. cvs: cvs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cvs: cvs: Notes to people upgrading from a previous release of CVS: cvs: cvs: See the NEWS file for a description of features new in this version. cvs: cvs: See the Compatibility section of the manual for information on cvs: compatibility between CVS versions. The quick summary is that as long cvs: as you not using the optional watch features, there are no cvs: compatibility problems with CVS 1.5 or later. cvs: cvs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cvs: cvs: Installation: cvs: cvs: Please read the INSTALL file for installation instructions. Brief summary: cvs: cvs: $ ./configure cvs: $ make cvs: (run the regression tests if desired) cvs: $ make install cvs: (create a repository if you don't already have one) cvs: cvs: The documentation is in the doc subdirectory. cvs.texinfo is the main cvs: manual; cvs.info* and cvs.ps are the info and postscript versions, cvs: respectively, generated from cvs.texinfo. The postscript version is cvs: for US letter size paper; we do this not because we consider this size cvs: "better" than A4, but because we believe that the US letter version cvs: will print better on A4 paper than the other way around. If you want a cvs: version formatted for A4, add the line @afourpaper near the start of cvs: cvs.texinfo and re-generate cvs.ps using TeX. cvs: cvs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cvs: cvs: * How do I get up-to-date information and information about other cvs: versions of CVS? cvs: cvs: On the web, http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html. cvs: cvs: See also cvs: http://www.cvshome.org cvs: cvs: The mailing list for CVS is info-cvs@gnu.org. Send cvs: subscription and removal requests for that list to cvs: info-cvs-request@gnu.org. cvs: cvs: The newsgroup for CVS (and other configuration management systems) is cvs: comp.software.config-mgmt. There is not yet a CVS-specific newsgroup, cvs: but perhaps if comp.software.config-mgmt gets enough CVS discussion, cvs: then it will be possible to create one. cvs: cvs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cvs: cvs: Credits: See the AUTHORS file.