CVS 1.7

["Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>]

Are we going to use 1.6 or 1.7?  I'd like to play with the latest and
greatest (particularly for other projects), but I don't want to install
both at UCI.  What should I do?

.....Roy

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From: Jim Kingdon <ki...@harvey.cyclic.com>
Subject: CVS 1.7 released
To: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 19:07:43 -0500
Message-ID: <gn...@harvey.cyclic.com>

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.  It has some configuration
management features (such as pre and post commit triggers), but cannot
(yet) be considered a full configuration management system (for
example, it lacks integration with a bug-tracking system such as
GNATS).

CVS 1.7 is available for anonymous FTP from the GNU FTP sites in the
file cvs-1.7.tar.gz.

Report bugs to bug-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu; see the README file in the CVS
distribution for more information about reporting bugs.

Here is a list of new or changed features since 1.6; of course there
have also been many bugfixes:

* The default ignore list has changed slightly: *.obj has been added
and CVS* has been changed to CVS CVS.adm.

* CVS now supports password authentication when accessing remote
repositories; this is useful for sites that can't use rsh (because of
a firewall, for example), and also don't have kerberos.  See node
"Password authenticated" (in "Remote repositories", in
doc/cvs.texinfo) for more details.  Note: This feature requires both
the client and server to be upgraded.

* Using the -kb option to specify binary files now works--most cases
did not work before.  See the "Binary files" section of
doc/cvs.texinfo for details.

* New developer communication features.  See the "Watches" section of
doc/cvs.texinfo for details.

* RCS keyword "Name" supported for "cvs update -r <tag>" and "cvs
checkout -r <tag>".

* If there is a group whose name matches a compiled in value which
defaults to "cvsadmin", only members of that group can use "cvs
admin".  This replaces the CVS_NOADMIN option.

* CVS now sets the modes of files in the repository based on the
CVSUMASK environment variable or a compiled in value defaulting to
002.  This way other developers will be able to access the files in
the repository regardless of the umask of the developer creating them.

* The command names in .cvsrc now match the official name of the
command, not the one (possibly an alias) by which it was invoked.  If
you had previously relied on "cvs di" and "cvs diff" using different
options, instead use a shell function or alias (for example "alias
cvsdi='cvs diff -u'").  You also can specify global CVS options (like
"-z") using the command name "cvs".



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Re: CVS 1.7

[Samuel Tardieu <sa...@inf.enst.fr>]

>>>>> "Roy" == Roy T Fielding <fi...@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU> writes:

Roy> Are we going to use 1.6 or 1.7?  I'd like to play with the latest
Roy> and greatest (particularly for other projects), but I don't want
Roy> to install both at UCI.  What should I do?

CVS 1.7 has much better communication capabilities than 1.6 does, and
pre-releases (86 if I remember well) have been intensively tested by
the CVS developpers to maintain CVS.

With 1.7 (and not 1.6), you may indicate that you wanna watch some
files. If someone wants to edit these files, you get a mail telling
you that this user is going to modify the files you're interested
in. This may help in preventing conflicts when two people begin to
make huge modifications on the same part of the code at the same time.

  Sam
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