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CVS-RCS- HOW-TO document for Linux (Source Code Control System)

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor@yahoo.com

v17.0, 20 Jan 2001


This document is a "practical guide" to very quickly setup CVS/RCS source code control system. This document has custom shell scripts which are wrappers on top of CVS. These scripts provide an easy user interface for CVS. Several shell scripts are provided to make RCS more easy to use. The information in this document applies to Linux and as well as to all other flavors of Unix liks Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Sinix, BSD, SCO, etc.. and BeOS.

1. Introduction

2. Which one is for me? CVS or RCS

3. Setting up CVS

4. Intro to CVS commands

5. Shell Scripts

6. CVS Documentation

7. Graphical Front ends

8. Multi-User CVS Remote Repository

9. RCS Shell scripts

10. Problem Reporting System

11. Related sites

12. SCCS v/s CVS-RCS

13. Other Formats of this Document

14. Copyright and License

15. sget

16. sedit

17. scommit

18. supdate

19. sunlock

20. slist

21. sinfo

22. slog

23. sdif

24. sadd

25. sdelete

26. sfreeze


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