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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users CVS real-life examples Post 30237 by RTM on Friday 18th of October 2002 09:48:07 AM

10-18-2002

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CVS and Solaris are good enough friends. We use it to keep our NIS files from being screwed up by more than one admin (of course, that was when we had 14 admins versus the 3 still here - now it's not as big a deal).

From the man page:

CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep
old versions of files (usually source code), keep a log of
who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS.
Unlike the simpler systems, CVS does not just operate on one
file at a time or one directory at a time, but operates on
hierarchical collections of directories consisting of ver-
sion controlled files. CVS helps to manage releases and to
control the concurrent editing of source files among multi-
ple authors. CVS allows triggers to enable/log/control
various operations and works well over a wide area network.

cvs keeps a single copy of the master sources. This copy is
called the source ``repository''; it contains all the infor-
mation to permit extracting previous software releases at
any time based on either a symbolic revision tag, or a date
in the past.
Home of CVS
CVS Docs has information on why,what, how.

SCCS which comes with Solaris is lousy for SAs since it sets file permissions to read-only instead of leaving the permissions the way they were.

RCS is just as good as CVS except you have to remember to check the file out first (RCS is being used for DNS zone files but CVS would work too).

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

svn

svn(1)							      General Commands Manual							    svn(1)

NAME

       svn - Subversion command line client tool

SYNOPSIS

       svn command [options] [args]

OVERVIEW

       Subversion is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of
       who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like CVS, RCS or SCCS.  Subversion keeps a single copy of the  master  sources.   This  copy	is
       called the source ``repository''; it contains all the information to permit extracting previous versions of those files at any time.

       For more information about the Subversion project, visit http://subversion.tigris.org.

       Documentation for Subversion and its tools, including detailed usage explanations of the svn, svnadmin, svnserve and svnlook programs, his-
       torical background, philosophical approaches and reasonings, etc., can be found at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.

       Run `svn help' to access the built-in tool documentation.." Begin Sun update

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWsvn	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Committed       |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Subversion is available on http://opensolaris.org.

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