3 Copyright (C) 1986-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 Portions Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Derek Price,
6 & Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>.
7 Portions Copyright (C) 1993-1994 Brian Berliner.
8 Portions Copyright (C) 1992 Brian Berliner and Jeff Polk.
9 Portions Copyright (C) 1989-1992 Brian Berliner.
12 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
13 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
14 the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
17 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
18 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
19 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
20 GNU General Public License for more details.
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26 If you have problems or think you have found a bug in CVS, see the
27 section BUGS in the CVS manual (also known as Version Management with
28 CVS by Per Cederqvist et al, or cvs.texinfo--see below for details).
30 If you are thinking of submitting changes to CVS, see the
33 Please consult the INSTALL file for information on tested
34 configurations. If you have a comment about an already tested
35 configuration, or have tried CVS on a new configuration, please let us
36 know as described in INSTALL. Free software only works if we all help
39 Finally, we cannot guarantee that this release will not completely wipe out
40 all of your work from your system. We do some simple testing before each
41 release, but you are completely on your own. We recommend testing this
42 release on a source repository that is not critical to your work. THIS
43 SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED COMPLETELY "AS IS". NO WARRANTY....
45 Thanks for your support!
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53 CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
54 of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why
55 changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. It handles multiple
56 developers, multiple directories, triggers to enable/log/control
57 various operations, and can work over a wide area network. The
58 following tasks are not included; they can be done in conjunction with
59 CVS but will tend to require some script-writing and software other
60 than CVS: bug-tracking, build management (that is, make and make-like
61 tools), and automated testing.
63 And a whole lot more. See the manual for more information.
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67 Notes to people upgrading from a previous release of CVS:
69 See the NEWS file for a description of features new in this version.
71 See the Compatibility section of the manual for information on
72 compatibility between CVS versions. The quick summary is that as long
73 as you not using the optional watch features, there are no
74 compatibility problems with CVS 1.5 or later.
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78 Verifying the Integrity of Downloads:
80 The official CVS source and binary releases are signed by the CVS maintainer
81 who generated them. This does not imply any sort of warranty, but it does mean
82 that you can verify that the file you downloaded did, in fact, come from a CVS
85 The OpenPGP keys of the CVS maintainers who have submitted them are in the KEYS
86 file of the CVS distribution and are also available from many OpenPGP key
87 servers. It is recommended that you verify the key fingerprints against an
88 external source, however you obtain the key.
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94 Please read the INSTALL file for installation instructions. Brief summary:
98 (run the regression tests if desired)
100 (create a repository if you don't already have one)
102 The documentation is in the doc subdirectory. cvs.texinfo is the main
103 manual; cvs.info* and cvs.ps are the info and postscript versions,
104 respectively, generated from cvs.texinfo. The postscript version is
105 for US letter size paper; we do this not because we consider this size
106 "better" than A4, but because we believe that the US letter version
107 will print better on A4 paper than the other way around. If you want a
108 version formatted for A4, add the line @afourpaper near the start of
109 cvs.texinfo and re-generate cvs.ps using TeX.
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113 * How do I get up-to-date information and information about other
117 http://cvs.nongnu.org
120 Anyone can add themselves to the following mailing lists:
122 bug-cvs: This is the list which users are requested to send bug reports
123 to. General CVS development and design discussions also tend to take
125 info-cvs: This list is intended for user questions, including general
127 cvs-announce: CVS release announcements and other major
128 announcements about the project are sent to this list.
129 cvs-announce-binaries: Announcements are made to this list
130 when binaries for various platforms are built and initially
133 To subscribe to any of these lists, send mail to <list>-request@nongnu.org
134 or visit http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=cvs and follow the instructions
135 for the list you wish to subscribe to.
137 The newsgroup for CVS (and other configuration management systems) is
138 comp.software.config-mgmt. The gnu.cvs.help newsgroup is a 2-way mirror
139 of the info-cvs@nongnu.org mailing list and gnu.cvs.bug is similarly a 2-way
140 mirror of bug-cvs@nongnu.org.
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144 Credits: See the AUTHORS file.