Change Control - CVS

• CVS: Concurent Version System

  • manipulates hierarchy of RCS files (the repository) to do version control for a hierarchy of files
  • concurrent access and conflict-resoultion algorithms to guarantee that source changes are not „lost“
  • support for tracking third-party vendor source distributions while maintaining local modifications made
  • support for symbolic mapping of module names to components of larger software distributions
  • configurable logging features to log commit operations
  • checkout of any version by date, tags, revision
  • patch files (differences between two versions) can be generated between any two versions