1 CVS Kit 2 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 (a] 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 (a] nongnu.org mailing list and gnu.cvs.bug is similarly a 2-way 127 mirror of bug-cvs (a] nongnu.org. 128 129 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130 131 Credits: See the AUTHORS file. 132
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