12 October 2004 - 20:38Intro to CVS

I use CVS as my source control system for essentially everything. Although some of the tools that interface with CVS such as Eclipse, there are a whole lot of tricky, painful CVS details that can sneak up on you. Not only that but using the command line version of CVS can be even more daunting since the one cvs executable handles all the 31 commands. Information references such as ‘man cvs‘ and ‘info cvs‘ are helpful, but the length of both is extreme. I’ll try to go over some of the benefits, setup, and use in this article and more to follow.