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$CVSid: @(#)README 1.32 94/10/22 $ CVS Kit, Version 1.4 Alpha Copyright (c) 1993-1994 Brian Berliner Copyright (c) 1992 Brian Berliner and Jeff Polk Copyright (c) 1989-1992, Brian Berliner All Rights Reserved This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the CVS 1.4 Alpha release! We thank you for taking the time to test this (potentially unstable) release and report bugs (ideally, with fixes). To report bugs, run the "cvsbug" program and fill out the template: $ cvsbug The "cvsbug" program is installed in the same location as the "cvs" program. If your installation failed, you may need to run "cvsbug" directly out of the "src" directory as "src/cvsbug.sh". While we cannot promise to be responsive to said bugs, we do appreciate your support through this Alpha process. Please consult the INSTALL file for information on tested configurations. If you have a comment about an already tested configuration, or have tried CVS on a new configuration, please write to the above address and let us know! Free software only works if we all help out. Finally, we cannot guarantee that this release will not completely wipe out all of your work from your system. We do some simple testing before each release, but you are completely on your own. We recommend testing this release on a source repository that is not critical to your work. THIS SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED COMPLETELY "AS IS". NO WARRANTY.... Thanks for your support! -The CVS Alpha Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS is a freely available collection of programs that provide for software release and revision control functions in a UNIX environment. It is designed to work on top of the RCS distribution, V4 and later. CVS does understand how to parse older RCS formats, but cannot do any of the fancier features (like vendor branch support) without RCS branch support. Short blurb from the manual page (larger blurb is included there): cvs is a front end to the rcs(1) revision control system which extends the notion of revision control from a collec- tion of files in a single directory to a hierarchical col- lection of directories consisting of revision controlled files. These directories and files can be combined together to form a software release. cvs provides the functions necessary to manage these software releases and to control the concurrent editing of source files among multiple software developers. And a whole lot more. See the man/cvs.1 file for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special note to current CVS 1.3 users: --> You can skip this section and go straight to "Installation" if you <-- --> have not been running any previous releases of CVS. <-- See the ChangeLog file in this directory to find out what has changed from CVS 1.3. Some files have been renamed from the CVS 1.3 distribution. If you're not careful, this can cause your build of CVS 1.4 to fail in strange ways. In particular, be sure to remove the src/config.h file (which is now src/options.h), as the correct config.h file is generated automatically by the "configure" stage of installation (and installed in this directory). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: Please read the INSTALL file for installation instructions. Brief summary: $ ./configure $ make $ make install $ cvsinit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing Lists: I have setup the following mailing list for CVS users and other interested parties. I have no idea what kind of volume will be generated on this list. Nor can I guarantee to personally respond to questions posted to the list. Anyway, the mailing list is: info-cvs-request@prep.ai.mit.edu Requests for addition to or removal from the mailing list must be sent to this address. Problems with the list (like bounced mail) should also be sent here. Please be specific about your email address. info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu Questions, bugs, porting problems, hints, or whatever can be sent to this address. A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) my be available from host "think.com" in the "/pub/cvs" directory. Please consult the FAQ before sending questions to info-cvs. DO NOT SEND ADDITION AND REMOVAL REQUESTS TO THIS ALIAS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits: The conflict-resolution algorithms and much of the administrative file definitions of CVS were based on the original package written by Dick Grune at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam <dick@cs.vu.nl>, and posted to comp.sources.unix in the volume 6 release sometime in 1986. This original version was a collection of shell scripts. I am thankful that Dick made his work available. Brian Berliner from Prisma, Inc. (now at Sun Microsystems, Inc.) <berliner@sun.com> converted the original CVS shell scripts into reasonably fast C and added many, many features to support software release control functions. See the manual page in the "man" directory. A copy of the USENIX article presented at the Winter 1990 USENIX Conference, Washington D.C., is included in the "doc" directory. Jeff Polk from BSDI <polk@bsdi.com> converted the CVS 1.2 sources into much more readable and maintainable C code. He also added a whole lot of functionality and modularity to the code in the process. See the ChangeLog file. david d `zoo' zuhn <zoo@armadillo.com> contributed the working base code for CVS 1.4 Alpha. His work carries on from work done by K. Richard Pixley and others at Cygnus Support. The CVS 1.4 upgrade is due in large part to Zoo's efforts. David G. Grubbs <dgg@odi.com> contributed the CVS "history" and "release" commands. As well as the ever-so-useful "-n" option of CVS which tells CVS to show what it would do, without actually doing it. He also contributed support for the .cvsignore file. The Free Software Foundation (GNU) contributed most of the portability framework that CVS now uses. This can be found in the "configure" script, the Makefile's, and basically most of the "lib" directory. K. Richard Pixley, Cygnus Support <rich@cygnus.com> contributed many bug fixes/enhancement as well as completing early reviews of the CVS 1.3 manual pages. Roland Pesch, then of Cygnus Support <roland@wrs.com> contributed brand new cvs(1) and cvs(5) manual pages. We should all thank him for saving us from my poor use of our language! Paul Sander, HaL Computer Systems, Inc. <paul@hal.com> wrote and contributed the code in lib/sighandle.c. I added support for POSIX, BSD, and non-POSIX/non-BSD systems. In addition to the above contributors, the following Beta testers deserve special mention for their support. If I have left off your name, I apologize. Just write to me and let me know! Mark D. Baushke <mdb@cisco.com> Per Cederqvist <ceder@signum.se> J.T. Conklin (jtc@cygnus.com> Vince DeMarco <vdemarco@fdcsrvr.cs.mci.com> Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> Lal George <george@research.att.com> Dean E. Hardi <Dean.E.Hardi@ccmail.jpl.nasa.gov> Mike Heath <mike@pencom.com> Jim Kingdon <kingdon@cygnus.com> Bernd Leibing <bernd.leibing@rz.uni-ulm.de> Benedict Lofstedt <benedict@tusc.com.au> Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> Robert Lupton the Good <rhl@astro.princeton.edu> Tom McAliney <tom@hilco.com> Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Jim Meyering <meyering@comco.com> Thomas Mohr <mohr@lts.sel.alcatel.de> Thomas Nilsson <thoni@softlab.se> Raye Raskin <raye.raskin@lia.com> Harlan Stenn <harlan@landmark.com> Gunnar Tornblom <gunnar.tornblom@senet.abb.se> Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net> Many contributors have added code to the "contrib" directory. See the README file there for a list of what is available. There is also a contributed GNU Emacs CVS-mode in contrib/pcl-cvs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Berliner berliner@sun.com