On Thu, 29 May 2003 08:33:26 +0100
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2003 3:42 am, Joe Hill wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:12:10 +0100
> >
> > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Right. Now I'm totally ignorant on this. IIRC you started with
> 'cvs'? What exactly is this? It seems to be something later than
> cooker versions but not yet supported - or am I on the wrong track
> altogether?
CVS - The VS stands for versioning system I think - the C might be
"coordinated" or "cooperative". It is something we used up at the Royal
Observatory Edinburgh for software development projects under UNIX.
Never really got the hang of it. It is supposed to provide a standardized
way for members of a group to maintain, synchronize, and backup their
efforts. The system may hold several snapshots of the programmers' work,
including documentation, with all the roots and branches, making it
possible to recover a complete version at any stage or even summarize the
history of the project. I dimly recall that CVS was based on an earlier
system called RCS (?).
--
Len Lawrence
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