On 2005-05-09 23:46:02 -0400, David Curry wrote: > As one who is unlikely to program anything or develop code to patch > bugs, security exposures, etc., could CVS be useful to me for other > purposes? CVS is - as the name says - a "concurrent versioning system". It is useful if you need to keep multiple versions of the same files, especially if several people (or one person at several places) may change them concurrently. Source code is only one exampe, it works for all kinds of text files and (although less efficiently) also for binary files. For example, we keep configuration files in CVS to keep an annotated history of changes. We also keep the contents of several web servers in CVS to sync them between multiple computers (e.g., my laptop, a test web server, and the production web server). If you are new to versioning systems, you may want to have a look at Subversion (svn). It is very similar to CVS but lacks some of the more annoying restrictions of CVS. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer \Beta means "we're down to fixing misspelled comments in |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR \the source, and you might run into a memory leak if | | | hjp wsr ac at \you enable embedded haskell as a loadable module and __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ \write your plugins upside-down in lisp". --ae op5 se
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