CVS II:
Parallelizing Software Development

Brian Berliner

Prisma, Inc.
5465 Mark Dabling Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
berliner@prisma.com

ABSTRACT

The program described in this paper fills a need in the UNIX community for a freely available tool to manage software revision and release control in a multi-developer, multi-directory, multi-group environment. This tool also addresses the increasing need for tracking third-party vendor source distributions while trying to maintain local modifications to earlier releases.

Table of Contents

• 1. Background
• 2. The CVS Program
  • 2.1. Software Conflict Resolution[note 4]
  • 2.2. Tracking Third-Party Source Distributions
  • 2.3. Location Independent Module Database
  • 2.4. Configurable Logging Support
  • 2.5. Tagged Releases and Dates
  • 2.6. Building ``patch'' Source Distributions
• 3. CVS Experience
  • 3.1. Statistics
  • 3.2. Performance
  • 3.3. The SunOS 4.0.3 Merge
• 4. Future Enhancements and Current Bugs
• 5. Availability
• 6. Summary
• 7. Acknowledgements
• 8. References
• Footnotes