From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (2399 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:54:29 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id SAA23930; Mon Nov 27 18:54:31 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.39]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA03014 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:54:56 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001127185650.007a73f0@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:56:50 -0600 Subject: Re: Self Introduction In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: Does that mean if I go check out the speakup that's in there, nobody else can once I've done it? About all I can do is add in some text and reupload to satisfy the system for others, to make a new version. One might be able to use it for writing reports if they wanted, have a friend download it, proofread and send up the new stuff. I'm sure people have done other things with it too, never gave it a try yet. At 07:31 AM 11/27/00 -0600, you wrote: >On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Steve Holmes wrote: > >> Sorry to be dumb here, but what is CVS? > >That isn't a dumb question at all. I believe it stands for Control >Versioning System. That being said, what it does is allow more then one >programer to work on the code at once. The programer checks out potions of >the code he wants to work on. Other programers can see that the code is >checked out and it will prevent them from checking out the same portion of >code later overwriting what he has done. It also allows changes to be >reversed in small increments should a problem be found later. > >You will find that this is almost always used with a decent sized software >project. It also allows you to get the latest for use. Just be aware that >it is also possible to get something that just got broke. > >======= >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >