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From: sharnyo@chez.us.oracle.com (Andi Harnyo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RCS with multiple customers + versions
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.223917.24818@oracle.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 22:39:17 GMT
References: <1991Apr02.030249.4488@ajfcal.uucp>
Organization: Oracle Corporation
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In article <1991Apr02.030249.4488@ajfcal.uucp> tony@ajfcal.uucp (Tony Field) writes:
>I was speculating that a sophisticated version of "rcsfreeze" might solve
>the problem.  The man page for "rcsfreeze" refers to a system called
>"CVS".  What is this?
>

Tony,


CVS stands for Concurrent Version System. It's a GNU software and designed
to work on top of the RCS distribution. 

From the man page:

     cvs is a front end to the  rcs(l)  revision  control  system
     which  extends the notion of revision control from a collec-
     tion of files in a single directory to a  hierarchical  col-
     lection  of  directories  consisting  of revision controlled
     files.  These directories and files can be combined together
     to  form  a  software  release.   cvs provides the functions
     necessary to manage these software releases and  to  control
     the  concurrent  editing  of  source  files  among  multiple
     software developers.

Hope it helps !


-Andi