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1 | CVS Kit |
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| 3 | Copyright (C) 1986-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | Portions Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Derek Price, | |
| 6 | & Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>. | |
| 7 | Portions Copyright (C) 1993-1994 Brian Berliner. | |
| 8 | Portions Copyright (C) 1992 Brian Berliner and Jeff Polk. | |
| 9 | Portions Copyright (C) 1989-1992 Brian Berliner. | |
| 10 | All Rights Reserved | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 13 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 14 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) | |
| 15 | any later version. | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 18 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 19 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 20 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | Welcome to CVS! | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | If you have problems or think you have found a bug in CVS, see the | |
| 27 | section BUGS in the CVS manual (also known as Version Management with | |
| 28 | CVS by Per Cederqvist et al, or cvs.texinfo--see below for details). | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | If you are thinking of submitting changes to CVS, see the | |
| 31 | file HACKING. | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | Please consult the INSTALL-CVS file for information on tested | |
| 34 | configurations. If you have a comment about an already tested | |
| 35 | configuration, or have tried CVS on a new configuration, please let us | |
| 36 | know as described in INSTALL-CVS. Free software only works if we all help | |
| 37 | out. | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | Finally, we cannot guarantee that this release will not completely wipe out | |
| 40 | all of your work from your system. We do some simple testing before each | |
| 41 | release, but you are completely on your own. We recommend testing this | |
| 42 | release on a source repository that is not critical to your work. THIS | |
| 43 | SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED COMPLETELY "AS IS". NO WARRANTY.... | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | Thanks for your support! | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | -The CVS Team | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | What Is CVS? | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions | |
| 54 | of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why | |
| 55 | changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. It handles multiple | |
| 56 | developers, multiple directories, triggers to enable/log/control | |
| 57 | various operations, and can work over a wide area network. The | |
| 58 | following tasks are not included; they can be done in conjunction with | |
| 59 | CVS but will tend to require some script-writing and software other | |
| 60 | than CVS: bug-tracking, build management (that is, make and make-like | |
| 61 | tools), and automated testing. | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | And a whole lot more. See the manual for more information. | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | Notes to people upgrading from a previous release of CVS: | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | See the NEWS file for a description of features new in this version. | |
| 70 | ||
| 71 | See the Compatibility section of the manual for information on | |
| 72 | compatibility between CVS versions. The quick summary is that as long | |
| 73 | as you not using the optional watch features, there are no | |
| 74 | compatibility problems with CVS 1.5 or later. | |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | Installation: | |
| 79 | ||
| 80 | Please read the INSTALL-CVS file for installation instructions. The brief | |
| 81 | summary is: | |
| 82 | ||
| 83 | $ ./configure | |
| 84 | $ make | |
| 85 | (run the regression tests, if desired, via `make check') | |
| 86 | $ make install | |
| 87 | (create a repository if you don't already have one) | |
| 88 | ||
| 89 | The documentation is in the doc subdirectory. cvs.texinfo is the main | |
| 90 | manual; cvs.info* and cvs.ps are the info and postscript versions, | |
| 91 | respectively, generated from cvs.texinfo. The postscript version is | |
| 92 | for US letter size paper; we do this not because we consider this size | |
| 93 | "better" than A4, but because we believe that the US letter version | |
| 94 | will print better on A4 paper than the other way around. If you want a | |
| 95 | version formatted for A4, add the line @afourpaper near the start of | |
| 96 | cvs.texinfo and re-generate cvs.ps using TeX. | |
| 97 | ||
| 98 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 99 | ||
| 100 | * How do I get up-to-date information and information about other | |
| 101 | versions of CVS? | |
| 102 | ||
| 103 | See also | |
| 104 | http://cvs.nongnu.org | |
| 105 | http://www.cvsnt.org | |
| 106 | ||
| 107 | Anyone can add themselves to the following mailing lists: | |
| 108 | ||
| 109 | bug-cvs: This is the list which users are requested to send bug reports | |
| 110 | to. General CVS development and design discussions also tend to take | |
| 111 | place on this list. | |
| 112 | info-cvs: This list is intended for user questions, including general | |
| 113 | help requests. | |
| 114 | cvs-announce: CVS release announcements and other major | |
| 115 | announcements about the project are sent to this list. | |
| 116 | cvs-announce-binaries: Announcements are made to this list | |
| 117 | when binaries for various platforms are built and initially | |
| 118 | posted for download. | |
| 119 | ||
| 120 | To subscribe to any of these lists, send mail to <list>-request@nongnu.org | |
| 121 | or visit http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=cvs and follow the instructions | |
| 122 | for the list you wish to subscribe to. | |
| 123 | ||
| 124 | The newsgroup for CVS (and other configuration management systems) is | |
| 125 | comp.software.config-mgmt. The gnu.cvs.help newsgroup is a 2-way mirror | |
| 126 | of the info-cvs@nongnu.org mailing list and gnu.cvs.bug is similarly a 2-way | |
| 127 | mirror of bug-cvs@nongnu.org. | |
| 128 | ||
| 129 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 130 | ||
| 131 | Credits: See the AUTHORS file. |