CVS / Concurrent Versions System for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Tracking the Various Versions of Open Source Software Applications"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

CVS / Concurrent Versions System is a program related to the open source movement for keeping track of the possible many versions of a software program's source code. It is a centralized record the many changes that can be made to a project.

This is especially important in the open source world where a program may be tinkered with by 1000s of developers working separately around the world, connected only by the Internet. CVS / Concurrent Versions System provides a tool for doing this.

CVS / Concurrent Versions System is a foundation for the open source movement and a repository of code and its version control. After all, an estimated 65% of all web servers are open source.

CVS / Concurrent Versions System was created for user administration on Unix

It is a popular tool for Unix and Linux developers, especially those working in teams.

It uses the Walter Ricky Revision Control System (RCS) to perform the actual revision management. It is not what is called a build system -- which is a code configuration management system -- controls the versions of a program as it is developed.

With CVS / Concurrent Versions System all developers are equal and each one's contributions are kept in a separate working directory

CVS / Concurrent Versions Systems uses the Copy Modify Merge Model and edits simultaneously. Developers can use the log manager to make notes of why they made their changes.

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