CVS and me: A bit clueless.

[Stephen Philbin]

Hi folks. I thought it was about time I learned to use a CVS and get used to the idea. Only problem is, I don't have much of a clue what to do with it or how to use it. I know it's for managing projects and helping with versioning them, but that's all I know. I thought I'd just open up my CVS software (cervisia) and have a click about to see what happened, so I clicked the "file" menu expecting to see a "start new project" option or something like that, but just got a list of greyed out options with only two options actually available: "Quit", and "Open Sandbox". Not quite what I was expecting.

Can anyone gimmy a clue?

[ray326]

I think cervisia is a module that integrates CVS into a file manager on Linux, one of a general class of "CVS clients." The best way to learn about the (command line) workings of CVS is the Cederquist documentation. It's the "users manual." Let's see if I can google up a couple of other good ones.

Home page: http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
Manual links: http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/
Best practices: http://www.tldp.org/REF/CVS-BestPractices/html/index.html
CVS for web sites: http://www.durak.org/cvswebsites/

[Stephen Philbin]

Ah, nice one Ray. The manual at ximbiot is exactly what I was looking for. Infolicious. :D Yum!