cvs help

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:16:49 -0400 (GMT)
Scott Prive <scottprive at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Alternatively, you might find commercial packages that do this. I'm
> not aware of any, but I never looked. 
Most commercial products have all sorts of management reporting. In the
past I've used CMS (Digital on VMS), AideDeCamp, Rational's ClearCase,
and several other IBM mainframe products as well as SCCS, RCS and CVS on
Unix and Linux. 

The most important thing is the ability to maintain versions of your
code. All do this. CVS has a history command that you can use to
generate reports. The advantage of CVS over RCS and some other products
is that it allows for multiple people to check out the same file.
Another advantage is that it allows for the repository to be located
just about anywhere. You can put the repository on a Linux server and
access it from a Windows machine. 

One other piece of experience is with AideDeCamp. I was not the
administrator of this. It is also cross platform. It maintained a
central database. We found that occasionally the database got corrupted,
and the admin had to recreate it. 

The bottom line is that I think that CVS can do the job and provide your
boss with much of the reports he wants at the expense of writing some
scripts. You might find that the administrative load on some of the
other commercial products may be more than the cost of cobling a few
scripts. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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