History: CvsForDevelopers

Note: developers should read this page about 1.8 CVS HEAD and ADOdb: Cvs18

CVS exploring
A good (then lazy) coder will put valuable comments in his CVS commits. You'll see those comments in each post on cvs mails, if you subscribe to that list. Each change on the code source sends a mail to that mailing-list. It's a large amount of mails, but less than for devel list. A good way to follow development is also to update a local cvs version of tikiwiki. Use the command cvs log on a file gives out its history of all comments made on it. Very useful.

• Get the cutting-edge-last-developers-version (updated every hour from a developer account) (5.8Mo)
  • [+]When using a CVS version, information about what's being worked on may be finded in the CVS Doc section of FeatureXDev pages. By example, for information on what's happening to articles, see ArticleDev.
• TikiWiki CVS Monitor
  http://cvsmonitor.tikiwiki.org
• Explore the webcvs
  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/tikiwiki/
• How to get a local CVS version of tikiwiki
  http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=64258
  If you want most recent CVS access, access CVS using SSH. If you want to do this automated using a cronjob, see here: Preventing CVS + SSH Password Prompts
• Subscribe to tikiwiki-cvs
  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tikiwiki-cvs
• CVS howto for tikiwiki
  TikiCVSHowTo
• Naming convention for CVS Tags
  TikiCvsTags
• CVS comandlines for tikiwiki
  TikiCommandLineCvs
• TikiWiki Changelog
  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/tikiwiki/tiki/changelog.txt?rev=.&content-type=text/plain
• SourceForge WinCvs CVS Client Installation Instructions
  http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=766&group_id=1

CVS : what's that ?
It's a way to store code source and write it collaboratively. It's used in all open source projects and it's a must know.

• CVS Howto
  http://www.freenix.org/unix/linux/HOWTO-vo/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html
• Quick reference to CVS
  http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.7/cvs_17.html#SEC155
• Another Quick Reference to CVS
  CvsQuickRef
• CVS Best Practices
  http://www.magic-cauldron.com/cm/cvs-bestpractices/index.html
• CVS training
  http://www.cs.uh.edu/~wjin/cvs/train/cvstrain.html
• CVS made simple on Windows
  http://www.tortoisecvs.org
• How to Do Version Control with CVS
  http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/howto/cvs