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>Appendix C. Concurrent Version System (CVS)</H1
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>Getting a CVS account</A
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>C.2.1. <A
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>Setting Up Your CVS Account</A
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>C.2.2. <A
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HREF="usingcvs.html#get-repository"
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>Getting the Documents</A
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>C.2.3. <A
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>CVS Commands</A
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>C.3. <A
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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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> 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. </P
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>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.</P
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>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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> 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.) </P
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>Access to our CVS repository</B
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>Only authors with at least three submissions get access to our CVS, see <A
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> You can browse the LDP CVS repository via the web at <A
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>http://cvs.tldp.org/</A
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