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About this manual
Up to this point, one of the weakest parts of cvs
has been the documentation. cvs is a complex
program. Previous versions of the manual were written
in the manual page format, which is not really well
suited for such a complex program.
When writing this manual, I had several goals in mind:
- No knowledge of rcs should be necessary.
- No previous knowledge of revision control software
should be necessary. All terms, such as revision
numbers, revision trees and merging are
explained as they are introduced.
- The manual should concentrate on the things cvs users
want to do, instead of what the cvs commands can do.
The first part of this manual leads you through things
you might want to do while doing development, and
introduces the relevant cvs commands as they are
needed.
- Information should be easy to find. In the reference
manual in the appendices almost all information about
every cvs command is gathered together. There is also
an extensive index, and a lot of cross references.
This manual was contributed by Signum Support AB in
Sweden. Signum is yet another in the growing list of
companies that support free software. You are free to
copy both this manual and the cvs program.
See Copying, for the details. Signum Support offers
support contracts and binary distribution for many
programs, such as cvs, gnu Emacs, the
gnu C compiler and others. Write to us for
more information.
Signum Support AB
Box 2044
S-580 02 Linkoping
Sweden
Email: info@signum.se
Phone: +46 (0)13 - 21 46 00
Fax: +46 (0)13 - 21 47 00
Another company selling support for cvs is Cyclic
Software, web: http://www.cyclic.com/, email:
info@cyclic.com.
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