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Huh, what is CVS

by Gary Roberson · in General Discussion · 10/19/2004 (5:52 pm) · 3 replies

Hi guys,

Since I've been on the GarageGames site, I've read many posts with a lot or messages about CVS.

What is it, and what is it used For?
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Torque Owner Max Thomas
#1
10/19/2004 (6:00 pm)
Cvs is basicly a program used by people who have a large program or file and want to distribute it without hosting it from a web site and screwing around with html passwords and such. I'm pretty sure this is what it is for.

Torque Owner Jeff Tunnell
#2
10/19/2004 (6:06 pm)
Max is wrong. CVS is shorthand for Concurrent Versioning System. It is a source code control system. Basically, it allows GG to continually update the the source code for Torque and users can check out specific versions. It does a lot more than that. If you are interested, there are entire books written on the subject.

Torque Owner Ben Heath
#3
10/19/2004 (9:38 pm)
Basically, I can make changes to a file and post them to the file's "repository" for everyone to see. Then they can download it and make changes of their own.