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| Version Control 101 With CVS | |
By Rodney Amato |
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06/20/2006
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Programming , Web Design , Web Technologies
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When is CVS Useful?You aren't going to want to use CVS for everything, but anything that is going to last more than about a week and whose changes are mainly plain text are going to benefit from being version controlled. Why mainly plain text? Well, one of the most useful features of CVS is being able to compare changes between 2 versions of a file. This works best with plain text files like html, css, javascript, php, asp etc. Download To get the latest version of Tortoise CVS head on over to http://www.tortoisecvs.org/download.shtml and download the stable version which is under 6 MB in size. Installation Run the installer and choose the defaults for everything (i.e. Just keep clicking next) unless you want to install it in a different directory. You will have to reboot afterwards unfortunately to finish the installation so make sure you arn't in the middle of something that would stop you from rebooting. Preparing for CVS Once you have rebooted and assuming you already have a website you want to store in CVS (this is usually called importing a module into CVS) then all you need to do is pick a directory to save all the cvs code to. You won't have to do anything to this directory just make sure it exists and is empty. For this guide I will be using d:\cvs as my directory (from now on we will call this our cvs repository or just our repository). |
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