What is CVS?explain about this?

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Bindu Chebolu

  • Nov 2nd, 2006
 

-> CVS is Concurrent Versioning System. CVS is an open source version control and collaboration system.

-> CVS is a software package to manage software developement done by several people.

-> CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, one can record the history of source files and documents.

For more information see the below links

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/cvs_2.html

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/cvs_toc.html#SEC6

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CVS is short for Concurrent Versions System, an open-source, network-transparent program that allows developers to keep track of different developemnt versions of source code. CVS does not maintain multiple verisons of source code iles but keeps a single copy and records of all of the changes that are made. When a developer wants a particular development version of a file, CVS will reconstruct that version based on its records.

Bugs can often get into code when it is modified and may not be detected intol long after the modification is made. CVS can retrieve old versions of the code, allowing the developers to see precisely which change caused the bug. CVS is also useful when more than one person is working on a specific file, where it is possible for the developers to overwrite each other's chages. CVS solves this problem by having each developer work in an individual directory and then merging the work from each after the work is complete. It is important to note that CVS isnot a build (a version of software program. This term is usually used in reference to a program that is still in development) system but rather a way to control disparate versions of code as it is developed over time.

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