CVS

Just what I was looking for: Thank You

Mike
mgcon@getnet.com
http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
Phoenix, AZ
USA

On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Kevin Buettner wrote:

> On Jul 28, 9:43pm, Mike Starke wrote:
>
> > I would like to begin learning how to use CVS. I have been using
> > RCS for my Perl scripts and such (simple co, ci), but would like
> > to learn CVS. I have some engineers that use it extensively, and
> > would like to understand a bit more about it.
> >
> > Is there a CVS for idiots guide around to get me started?
> >
> > I have it installed, $CVSROOT is set, and I did a 'cvs init'.
>
> Once you have your repository set up, CVS is very easy to use. Jim
> Blandy has written a nice (and short) introduction which may be found
> at
>

>     http://www.cvshome.org/docs/blandy.html

>
> Unfortunately, he doesn't describe how to get your sources into the
> repository to start with. For that you'll either need to turn to the
> man pages, or take a look at one of the CVS books. Karl Fogel has
> put parts of his book online at
>

>     http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/

>
> You'll want to use "cvs import" to get your sources into the
> repository to begin with. But, in my opinion, "cvs import" is one of
> the trickier cvs commands. Tom Tromey has written a short web page
> that's well worth looking at which describes some of the gotchas
> associated with "cvs import". See
>

>     http://www.cygnus.com/~tromey/import.html

>
> (He also describes how to get your sources into the repository
> to begin with... so you may just want to start with Tom's page.
> But you will need to read man pages or one of the CVS books at
> some point.)
>
> Kevin
>
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