Concurrent Versioning System (CVS)

CONCEPTS

• A repository holds the current version of each controlled document and its revision history, including details of changes made.

• More than one user may change the same document at the same time, but the CVS program will alert each reviser when their changes conflict with changes made by other concurrent revisers of the same document.

• All functions of of Revision Control System (RCS) are retained, but locking and multiple updates are dealt with gracefully.

COMMANDS

• See "Commonly used CVS commands"

REMARKS

• CVS is usually implemented as a friendlier interface to RCS.