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  Other CVS Documentation
 

The MacCVSClient User Guide describes mainly MacCVSClient specific issues.

There is a host of other documents available both on the web and in bookstores that explain CVS in general or the use of CVS in special types of projects. Here's a short list. It's probably far from complete but might give you a good starting point.

If you know good sources of information that helped you (or that you created yourself), please let me know and I'll add them here.

I have not read all documents on the following list. The order of the items on the list does not imply any ranking in quality or some such. If I made mistakes describing the items, please let me know and I'll fix them.

  A Short Bibliography
 
Version Management with CVS
by Per Cederqvist et al.; document that comes with the stock CVS sources, available in PostScript, (PDF?), texi, plain text, HTML and other formats; an online copy is at http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual.
CVS Version Control for Web Site Projects
by Sean Dreilinger; as the title says, this has a particular focus on web site handling with CVS; available formats are PDF, HTML, and PostScript; http://durak.org/cvswebsites.
Open Source Development with CVS
by Karl Fogel; this book comes in two flavours: the CVS related chapters are GPL'ed and can be downloaded from http://cvsbook.red-bean.com in different formats; alternatively you can buy a hard copy that contains a few more chapters on Open Source Development.
CVS Pocket Reference
by Gregor N Purdy; published by O'Reilly just recently in Summer 2000; http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cvspr.
How to setup a CVS server
by Michael Amorose; a web page outlining details about how CVS server setup; http://www.michael-amorose.com/cvs.
CVS Reference Card
by Andrew Ford; a great CVS command reference card for your desk to quickly look up how that odd option was called again; http://www.refcards.com/about/cvs.html.
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