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 Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 2:56 am Post subject: What CVS stands for ? |
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| I'm a little bit ignorant, i found the CVS word searching in the portage in order to install phoenix. |
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entropy
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magnet
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 3:19 am Post subject: |
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CVS stand for Concurrent Version Control System ( yea I know it should be CVCS , but this definition come from a howto ).
this just mean that the package will be build with the latest version avalaible.
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fragbert
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| magnet wrote: | CVS stand for Concurrent Version Control System ( yea I know it should be CVCS , but this definition come from a howto ).
this just mean that the package will be build with the latest version avalaible. |
Yes, with one minor addition... It is called the "Concurrent" Versioning Control System because multiple developers should be able to have a source file checked-out at the same time (concurrently). In theory, they should then be able to check the files in at their leasure without any problems; this is different from other versioning systems, which allow for only one user to edit a file at a time. In practice, there are often merge problems when two people are editing the same source. When you're working with CVS, you never want to be the last one to check your file in. 
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