Begriffe rund ums CVS

Here I want to clear up some basic concepts about CVS.

CVS

CVS means Concurrent Versions System. It's one of the famous version management programs. It forms the basis for managing files in Sourceforge. It makes teamwork easier and logs every change of the source files. It makes it possible to control baseline versions and maintain code updates.

SVN

Actually SVN is used now instead of CVS, but the principle is the same. See http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=109150 for information about how to check out the source code.

Sandbox

A sandbox is your local directory where you can check out modules from the SVN repository. It is distinguished by a .svn subdirectory (hidden) in every directory. The .svn directory contains information about the source files. You can edit the source files directly in the sandbox with any editor. By using special tools, for example TortoiseSVN, changed files are directly shown in the explorer. The tools will create and maintain the SVN directory for you and allow check-out of source files from the library. After you’ve made your source code changes, and tested them, the tools allow you to check the files back into the library. It is possible to have multiple sandboxes on your hard disc so that you could work on different projects at the same time.

TortoiseSVN

TortioseSVN is a plug-in for Windows Explorer to interface with the SVN archives and allow check-out and check-in of files. I can warmly recommend this tool because it makes working with SVN very easy. Download on http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

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