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- CVS Kit
-
- Copyright (c) 1993-1994 Brian Berliner
- Copyright (c) 1992 Brian Berliner and Jeff Polk
- Copyright (c) 1989-1992, Brian Berliner
- All Rights Reserved
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Welcome to CVS!
-
- If you have problems or think you have found a bug in CVS, see the
- section BUGS in the CVS manual (also known as Version Management with
- CVS by Per Cederqvist et al, or cvs.texinfo--see below for details).
-
- If you are thinking of submitting changes to CVS, see the
- file HACKING.
-
- Please consult the INSTALL file for information on tested
- configurations. If you have a comment about an already tested
- configuration, or have tried CVS on a new configuration, please let us
- know as described in INSTALL. Free software only works if we all help
- out.
-
- Finally, we cannot guarantee that this release will not completely wipe out
- all of your work from your system. We do some simple testing before each
- release, but you are completely on your own. We recommend testing this
- release on a source repository that is not critical to your work. THIS
- SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED COMPLETELY "AS IS". NO WARRANTY....
-
- Thanks for your support!
-
- -The CVS Team
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- What Is CVS?
-
- CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
- of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why
- changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. It handles multiple
- developers, multiple directories, triggers to enable/log/control
- various operations, and can work over a wide area network. The
- following tasks are not included; they can be done in conjunction with
- CVS but will tend to require some script-writing and software other
- than CVS: bug-tracking, build management (that is, make and make-like
- tools), and automated testing.
-
- And a whole lot more. See the manual for more information.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Notes to people upgrading from a previous release of CVS:
-
- See the NEWS file for a description of features new in this version.
-
- See the Compatibility section of the manual for information on
- compatibility between CVS versions. The quick summary is that as long
- as you not using the optional watch features, there are no
- compatibility problems with CVS 1.5 or later.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Installation:
-
- Please read the INSTALL file for installation instructions. Brief summary:
-
- $ ./configure
- $ make
- (run the regression tests if desired)
- $ make install
- (create a repository if you don't already have one)
-
- The documentation is in the doc subdirectory. cvs.texinfo is the main
- manual; cvs.info* and cvs.ps are the info and postscript versions,
- respectively, generated from cvs.texinfo. The postscript version is
- for US letter size paper; we do this not because we consider this size
- "better" than A4, but because we believe that the US letter version
- will print better on A4 paper than the other way around. If you want a
- version formatted for A4, add the line @afourpaper near the start of
- cvs.texinfo and re-generate cvs.ps using TeX.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- * How do I get up-to-date information and information about other
- versions of CVS?
-
- On the web, http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html.
-
- See also
- http://www.cvshome.org
-
- The mailing list for CVS is info-cvs@gnu.org. Send
- subscription and removal requests for that list to
- info-cvs-request@gnu.org.
-
- The newsgroup for CVS (and other configuration management systems) is
- comp.software.config-mgmt. There is not yet a CVS-specific newsgroup,
- but perhaps if comp.software.config-mgmt gets enough CVS discussion,
- then it will be possible to create one.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Credits:
-
- The conflict-resolution algorithms and much of the administrative file
- definitions of CVS were based on the original package written by Dick Grune
- at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam <dick@cs.vu.nl>, and posted to
- comp.sources.unix in the volume 6 release sometime in 1986. This original
- version was a collection of shell scripts. I am thankful that Dick made
- his work available.
-
- Brian Berliner from Prisma, Inc. (now at Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
- <berliner@sun.com> converted the original CVS shell scripts into reasonably
- fast C and added many, many features to support software release control
- functions. See the manual page in the "man" directory. A copy of the
- USENIX article presented at the Winter 1990 USENIX Conference, Washington
- D.C., is included in the "doc" directory.
-
- Jeff Polk from BSDI <polk@bsdi.com> converted the CVS 1.2
- sources into much more readable and maintainable C code. He also added a
- whole lot of functionality and modularity to the code in the process.
- See the bottom of the NEWS file (from about 1992).
-
- david d `zoo' zuhn <zoo@armadillo.com> contributed the working base code
- for CVS 1.4 Alpha. His work carries on from work done by K. Richard Pixley
- and others at Cygnus Support. The CVS 1.4 upgrade is due in large part to
- Zoo's efforts.
-
- David G. Grubbs <dgg@odi.com> contributed the CVS "history" and "release"
- commands. As well as the ever-so-useful "-n" option of CVS which tells CVS
- to show what it would do, without actually doing it. He also contributed
- support for the .cvsignore file.
-
- The Free Software Foundation (GNU) contributed most of the portability
- framework that CVS now uses. This can be found in the "configure" script,
- the Makefile's, and basically most of the "lib" directory.
-
- K. Richard Pixley, Cygnus Support <rich@cygnus.com> contributed many bug
- fixes/enhancement as well as completing early reviews of the CVS 1.3 manual
- pages.
-
- Roland Pesch, then of Cygnus Support <roland@wrs.com> contributed
- brand new cvs(1) and cvs(5) manual pages. Thanks to him for saving us
- from poor use of our language!
-
- Paul Sander, HaL Computer Systems, Inc. <paul@hal.com> wrote and
- contributed the code in lib/sighandle.c. I added support for POSIX, BSD,
- and non-POSIX/non-BSD systems.
-
- Jim Kingdon and others at Cygnus Support <info@cygnus.com> wrote the
- remote repository access code.
-
- There have been many, many contributions not listed here. Consult the
- ChangeLog files in each directory for a more complete idea.
-
- In addition to the above contributors, the following Beta testers
- deserve special mention for their support. This is only a partial
- list; if you have helped in this way and would like to be listed, let
- bug-cvs know (as described in the Cederqvist manual).
-
- Mark D. Baushke <mdb@cisco.com>
- Per Cederqvist <ceder@signum.se>
- J.T. Conklin <jtc@cygnus.com>
- Vince DeMarco <vdemarco@fdcsrvr.cs.mci.com>
- Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
- Lal George <george@research.att.com>
- Dean E. Hardi <Dean.E.Hardi@ccmail.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Mike Heath <mike@pencom.com>
- Jim Kingdon <kingdon@cygnus.com>
- Bernd Leibing <bernd.leibing@rz.uni-ulm.de>
- Benedict Lofstedt <benedict@tusc.com.au>
- Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
- Robert Lupton the Good <rhl@astro.princeton.edu>
- Tom McAliney <tom@hilco.com>
- Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Jim Meyering <meyering@comco.com>
- Thomas Mohr <mohr@lts.sel.alcatel.de>
- Thomas Nilsson <thoni@softlab.se>
- Raye Raskin <raye.raskin@lia.com>
- Harlan Stenn <harlan@landmark.com>
- Gunnar Tornblom <gunnar.tornblom@senet.abb.se>
- Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>
-
- Many contributors have added code to the "contrib" directory. See the
- README file there for a list of what is available. There is also a
- contributed GNU Emacs CVS-mode in tools/pcl-cvs.
-