SPUG: Version control white paper

[James Moore]

CVS doesn't actually do versioning, which is why you may be having a
problem.  It's just a wrapper around another versioning system, almost
always RCS, but I think it can be configured to use SCCS or just about
anything else.  

CVS exists to put directory structures around files under version
control.  CVS runs RCS ommands to track file versions.  RCS itself
doesn't know anything about things at the level of abstraction of a CVS
project or even a directory; it only knows about single files.

- James 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org] On Behalf
Of Peter Darley
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:30 AM
To: SPUG
Subject: SPUG: Version control white paper

Friends,
	I'm putting together a system with perl/postgresql that will
need to have a
good mechanism for maintaining multiple versions of database objects,
which
is something that is quite new to me.  I have been searching the net to
find
a white paper explaining the inner workings of CVS, without describing
the
actual code implementation, and have drawn a blank.  I was hoping that
someone on this list could point me to such a thing, or to any white
paper/algorithm discussion of other version control systems.
	I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this forum, and if not,
I
apologize.
Thanks,
Peter Darley


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