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Lynn David Newton wrote:

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|Of those listed the most promising at first glance is
|"Open Source Development with CVS" by Moshe Bar and
|Karl Fogel. There is also, of course, an O'Reilly book,
|"Essential CVS" by Jennifer Vesperman, which seems to
|be new.

I think far and away the best book is teh "Open Source Development
with CVS" by Karl Fogel.  The best news is Karl is a great guy.  He
has made the pertinent chapters available for free download from the
following site.  http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/  The way the book is
setup is it takes one technical chapter on CVS then has a chapter on
open source development.  The chapters on CVS are what are available
for free download.

I am sure you can find this book used on Ebay or Amazon for cheap, if
you like hard copies (I know I do)  However, all the others on your
development team can get free digital copies (which will help the
company bottom line)  Karl is also helping develop Subversion the CVS
replacement and has several great tools for cvs out there.  Like
cvs2cl which auto creates changelogs from CVS repositories.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3546173430&category=1107
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/1576104907/all/ref=dp_bb_a/103-7359650-6531838
)

Disclaimer:  Karl is known to have ties to Free Software Foundation
and so do I.  Therefore this assessment is probably biased.

- -Derek
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