Re: cvs and sourceforge

Jim Carlock <anonymous@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
Just looking for a general description/overview introduction
into what it exactly is. I understand that it's an acronym
for current versioning system (?). It does not appear to be

Concurrent Versioning System. There's a nice wiki article.
or `man cvs`. CVS is the prevalent open-source source code
version management system. AFAIK Linus used it, then moved to
BitKeeper for a while, now is on `Git`.

a protocol in the respect that HTTP delivers HTML, so what
I see is based upon using the HTML/HTTP that already exists.

$ grep cvs /etc/services
cvspserver 2401/tcp #CVS network server
cvspserver 2401/udp #CVS network server
cvsup 5999/tcp #CVSup file transfer/John Polstra/FreeBSD


I was just wondering if anyone already had a tool which
checks the HTTP headers to determine what to download,
or perhaps suggestions on how to handle it.

Have a look at `wget` for HTTP. Or the `update` command in CVS.

-- Robert



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