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In contrast to the many user manuals about CVS this "CVS Getting Started" is intended for developers who have no experience with CVS and would like to start working with it. Throughout the whole document examples and figures are used to illustrate the usage of the basic CVS commands. The reader can follow the examples and thereby learn how to use CVS.
The "CVS Getting Started" covers the following topics:
pdf
format under:
http://spider.cern.ch/Processes/ConfigurationManagement/Documents/CVSGettingStarted/cvsgettingstarted.pdf
On UNIX, CVS is available as a package from ASIS. There is also
an introduction to CVS as part of the IT Tutorial series by Raul
Ramos-Pollan, of which the last recording is available under:
http://webcast.cern.ch/Archive/Tutorials/Computing/CVS_27071999.html
More information on CVS and Configuration Management in general
can be found under:
http://spider.cern.ch/Processes/ConfigurationManagement/