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Essential CVS (Essentials) [Kindle Edition]

Jennifer Vesperman (Author)

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Length: 432 pages
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"Essential CVS does what you might think would be a small job more effectively and more comprehensively than I would have imagined, even allowing for the generally high standard of O'Reilly books. Apart from covering the boring stuff well, it has two big advantages over the Web: it backs up its discussion of various CVS functions with wise advice and policies on why and how to use these facilities - plus it provides readable (and, presumably, tested) examples. Computing sciences prizes abstraction and generalities; computing practice should, like this book, be informed by concrete specifics and sensible rules-of-thumb." - Damian Counsell, news@UK, December 2003

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Version Control and Source Code Management

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 4134 KB
Print Length: 432 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (9 Feb 2009)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B0028PL5DG
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful

Great start to CVS 26 Mar 2004

By Matthew Hunter - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

I administer our CVS server at work. We use CVS in the traditional way, to manage source code from a group of people working together on multiple projects. Before this book, I didn't have a single reference that explained all the basic functionality of CVS. Now, when someone has a question, I can pass along this book for a quick answer.

Most of the things you'll do with CVS are covered in sufficient detail in this book. I do agree with the reviewer who mentioned this is not the perfect reference for some tasks - like merging branches. This book will, however, give you all the background information you'll need so that you can effectively research complex topics like this on the web. The title is appropriate - 'essential CVS.' It's not 'everything there is to know about CVS' - and that's a strength of the book. It makes it small enough that the average developer can read the 'quickstart,' and have a basic understanding of how things work. They can then use the more detailed chapters to gain further information. Only the CVS administrator will need a little more. Even for them, this book will be a handy reference.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

An effective coverage of CVS 7 Dec 2003

By Foti Massimo - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

Being part of the "Essential" series, this book doesn't pretend to be the ultimate reference on the subject, but it delivers an effective coverage of CVS. The author start from scratch and goes up to explain more advanced features like tagging and branching. In my opinion the way chapters are organized is not ideal and there is some redundancy here and there, notwithstanding these shortcomings, I would recommend it. Just be advised the whole book is totally Unix centric and all the samples cover only command-line usage.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful

Not Clear on the Merging Branches 10 Feb 2004

By Samuel Smith - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

For me the quick way to review a CVS book is to read it's sections on merging branches. It was covered in about two pages in this book and wholely inadequate.

For a general CVS admin reference, it seems OK, but I was too disappointed regarding branches. My quest for a great CVS book continues....

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