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programming> (CVS) A
cross-platform {code management
system} originally based on
RCS.
CVS tracks all revisions to a file in an associated file with
the same name as the original file but with the string ",v"
(for
version) appended to the filename. These files are
stored in a (possibly centralised) repository.
Changes are checked in or "committed" along with a comment
(which appears in the the "commit log"). CVS has the notions
of projects, branches, file locking and many others needed to
provide a full-functioned repository.
It is commonly accessed over over its own "anonCVS"
protocol
for read-only access (many
open source projects are
available by anonymous CVS) and over the
SSH protocol by
those with commit privileges ("committers").
CVS has been rewritten several times and does not depend on
RCS. However, files are still largely compatible; one can
easily migrate a project from RCS to CVS by copying the
history files into a CVS repository. A sub-project of the
OpenBSD project is building a complete new implementation of
CVS, to be called OpenCVS.
CVS Home (http://cvshome.org/). {
OpenCVS
(http://opencvs.org/)}.
(2005-01-17)