mirror of https://github.com/tLDP/LDP
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45 lines
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<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN'>
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-->
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<para>
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The LDP provides optional CVS access to its authors. This enables
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collaborative writing and has the following positive effects:
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</para>
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<orderedlist inheritnum="ignore" continuation="restarts">
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<listitem>
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<para> CVS will keep an off-site backup of your documents. In
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the event that you hand over a document to another author,
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they can just retrieve the document from CVS and continue
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on. In the event you need to go back to a previous version of
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a document, you can retrieve it as well. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>However difficult from an organizational point of view, it's great to have multiple people working on the same
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document. CVS enables you to do this. You can have CVS tell you what changes were made by another author
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while you were editing your copy, and
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integrate those changes.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>CVS keeps a log of what changes were made. These logs (and
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a date stamp) can be placed automatically inside your documents
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when they are published.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para> CVS can be combined with scripts to automatically
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update the LDP web site with new documentation as it's written
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and submitted. This is not in place yet, but it is a goal.
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Currently, CVS updates signal the HOWTO coordinator to
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update the LDP web page, meaning that if you use CVS, you're not
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required to e-mail your XML code. (Although you do
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still need to send the submit list an email when you
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are ready for your document to be published, because the whole publishing process has not been fully automated yet.) </para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<note><title>Access to our CVS repository</title>
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<para>Only authors with at least three submissions get access to our CVS, see <xref linkend="cvs" />.</para>
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</note>
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