From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ignatious.1tree.com(c716099-a.rchdsn1.tx.home.com[24.7.105.70]) (1564 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:23:11 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from cpt.kirk (helo=localhost) by ignatious.1tree.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 140ONZ-0002Kd-00 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:31:33 -0600 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:31:33 -0600 (CST) From: Kirk Wood X-Sender: cpt.kirk@ignatious.1tree.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Self Introduction In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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