Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
 | By Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt The Pragmatic Programmers, 2003, Paperback Customer Rating: 10 reviews Recommend |
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This book is a recipe-based approach to using the CVS Version Control system that will get you up and running quickly — and correctly. All projects need version control: it's a foundational piece of any project's infrastructure. Yet half of all project teams in the U.S. don't use any version control at all. Many others don't use it well, and end up experiencing time-consuming problems. Version Control, done well, is your "undo" button for the project: nothing is final, and mistakes are easily rolled back. With version control, you'll never again lose a good idea because someone overwrote your file edits. You can always find out easily who made what changes to the source code — and why. Version control is a project-wide time machine. Dial in a date and see exactly what the entire project looked like yesterday, last Tuesday, or even last year. This book describes a practical, easy-to-follow way of using CVS, the most commonly used version control system in the world (and it's available for free). Instead of presenting the grand Theory of Version Control and describing every possible option (whether you'd ever use it or not), this book focuses on the practical application of CVS. It builds a set of examples of use that parallel the life of typical projects, showing you how to adopt and then enhance your pragmatic use of CVS. With this book, you can:
- Keep project all assets (not just source code) safe, and never run the risk of losing a great idea
- Know how to undo bad decisions — no matter when they were made
- Learn how to share code safely, and work in parallel for maximum efficiency
- See how to avoid costly code freezes
- Manage 3rd party code
Title: Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
Sales Rank: 358054 in Books
Author: Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt
Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers, 2003-09, Paperback, 176 pages, ISBN: 0974514004
Package Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches, 0.75 pounds
- Just enough CVS to keep you moving
- If you are new to a particular topic and there is a Pragmatic Bookshelf edition for it, then I wholeheartedly recommend buying a copy before you buy any alternate version. They are generally well written, up-to-date and tell you just the stuff that you really need to know. This book is exactly that. There is a lot of information and books around… More reviews
- Better than nothing
- With this book at my side I still ended up frequently hunting for information out on the web. CVS looks at the entire concept quite a bit differently than the other SCMs I've used and the command line interface is archaic. This book fails to provide a good conceptual model of what is going on in CVS (as opposed to SCMs in general) which might be able… More reviews
- How to do it
- I've been grappling with the Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) for years. Moreover, I've been misusing it. Baffled and intimidated by its cryptic syntax and concepts, I've missed out on the power of branching and tagging, and the way these tools can be used to clearly demarcate project releases and versions. Using CVS as little more than… More reviews
- Chatty but Misses Information
- I bought this book to come up to speed on CVS for a new project and I had a mixed experience with it.
I like the author's simple examples. For example, using a short text list of colors as sample files instead of source code. These made it easy to focus on the author's intent without getting confused by the example.
However, I had a problem… More reviews
- JATO (Jet-Assisted TakeOff) for CVS
- I had already started trying to use CVS (on OpenBSD) and had run into problems. Reading this book flattened out the CVS learning curve. It showed me how to perform CVS-related tasks that come up frequently, and helped me comprehend why I had previously been having trouble. I read most of the book in one day. Definitely a keeper! More reviews
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