Version Control

@article{citeulike:530533, abstract = {Although CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is the oldest, it's still the mostly widely used version control system because it's mature, stable, and fielded in a vast corpus of projects. CVS is the standard for comparison among all other VC tools.}, author = {Louridas, P.}, citeulike-article-id = {530533}, comment = {Software evolves in small steps or versions. Often these versions are results of collaborations among different persons. At times we want to fall back to a previous version or compare different variants. Or, we need to trace changes to change requests. All these tasks relate to version control and show that tool support in this domain is indispensable, as it is with editors and compilers. Panagiotis Louridas describes available tools and shows why the CVS open source tool is so popular among practitioners.}, journal = {Software, IEEE}, keywords = {checkout, commit, concurrent, control, cvs, developer, development, html, internet-technologies, lis5313, open-source, programming, repository, system, version, versioning, versions, web}, number = {1}, pages = {104--107}, posted-at = {2007-04-08 05:07:13}, priority = {4}, title = {Version Control}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1576667}, volume = {23}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:530533 L3 - citeulike-article-id:530533 N2 - Although CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is the oldest, it's still the mostly widely used version control system because it's mature, stable, and fielded in a vast corpus of projects. CVS is the standard for comparison among all other VC tools. IS - 1 JF - Software, IEEE EP - 107 TI - Version Control VL - 23 SP - 104 KW - checkout KW - commit KW - concurrent KW - control KW - cvs KW - developer KW - development KW - html KW - internet-technologies KW - lis5313 KW - open-source KW - programming KW - repository KW - system KW - version KW - versioning KW - versions KW - web N1 - Software evolves in small steps or versions. Often these versions are results of collaborations among different persons. At times we want to fall back to a previous version or compare different variants. Or, we need to trace changes to change requests. All these tasks relate to version control and show that tool support in this domain is indispensable, as it is with editors and compilers. Panagiotis Louridas describes available tools and shows why the CVS open source tool is so popular among practitioners. AU - Louridas, P PY - 2006/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1576667 ER -