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8.4. ReviewThis chapter has been all about CVS, one of the great jems of the Open Source world. Projects all across the globe depend on CVS to track their source changes, as programmers half a world away collaborate and share source. We discussed how to import source files into CVS and how to get them back out. We discussed the mechanism for checking in changes and how to sort out collisions for the rare occasions when automatic merges don't succeed. We described how to tag a set of source files for later retrieval, and how to make those tags into branches in your source tree. We also discussed how to show the history of those changes and the status of a source file. Finally, we took a quick look at a GUI for use with CVS, for those so inclined. |
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