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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Arbraz on September 04, 2003, 03:08:56 pm

Title: What is CVS ?
Post by: Arbraz on September 04, 2003, 03:08:56 pm

Hi

What to do with CVS ?

Thx

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Post by: Moogie on September 04, 2003, 04:45:02 pm

If you don\'t know what it is, you probably shouldn\'t have it. ;)

(No, I don\'t really know what it is anyway, sorry. I assume it\'s something to do with Crystal Space?)

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Post by: acraig on September 04, 2003, 11:37:58 pm

CVS is Concurrent Versions System.  Basically it is a system that controls all the source code.  There is something called a \'central repository\' where all the code is stored and all the developers \'check out\' a copy of the code and work on it and \'commit\' their changes back to the repository.  That way it allows us to all work on the code at the same time without having to copy a bunch of files all over the place.

Read more about cvs here (http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033&group_id=1#whatiscvs)

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Post by: xlorepdarkhelm on September 05, 2003, 03:13:25 am

It\'s one of a few different methods to let multiple programmers work on the same programming code without accidentally re-writing the same piece of programming code at the same time and then only ending up with one of their versions of it ending up in the main program (if 2 people download the same piece of programming code without CVS or something similar, then they both upload the changes afterwards, you\'ll end up only with the last person\'s changes, not the first).

I know acraig, you basically said the same thing, I\'m just trying to break it down into terms the non-computer literate could possibly choke down.  And I\'m not entirely certian if I did get the translation right :)