CVS?

http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html

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"I know very well who Satan is: He is freedom. He is the uncontrolled, the incalculable, the antithesis of order and discipline, the antithesis of the legalism of outer space.... We know where a planet will be in twelve years, four months and nine days. But we don''t know where a butterfly will have flown one minute hence. Therefore the butterfly is of Satan."
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What do one use CVS for?

Anton Karlsson
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Original post by Anonymous Poster
CVS also known as a "Code Versioning System"

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Concurrent Versions System.

The rest of the stuff was good, though.

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"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."
-- Mark Twain

Another small nitpick, but...

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Original post by Anonymous Poster
CVS helps to resolve the problem by showing you who''s checked out files, how long they''ve been checked out and with the help of a merging tool it will merge the changes between 2 files.

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AFAIK there''s no mechanism in CVS to show who''s checked out files since I believe the assumption is that it doesn''t matter who has the files checked out at any given time, because when files are checked in it forces you to resolve any conflicts (via the merging mechanism alluded to in the quote) between the version you have checked out and the version on the server (thus preventing the incidental overwriting of somebody else''s changes).

I hope this clarifies things a little bit, and doesn''t confuse you further.

-pirate_dau