7. Light CVS Support

This package provides simple CVS support within the editing session.

The package provides the following features:

• Displays the CVS revision in the mode line.
• Compares file changes between CVS revisions using ediff.
• Keystrokes and menu entries to execute `cvs status', `cvs log' and `cvsann'.
• Simple interface to `cvs commit' and `cvs update' commands.
• Status listing per directory.
• msb support (better buffer selection).
• dired support.
• Softlink tree support.
• Little module support (status and update).

To install this library, add the following to your user-init-file:

  (require 'cvs)

To configure this package please view the source code. This can be done by typing C-x 4 l cvs.

For related packages please see section `Top' in Pcl-cvs - The Emacs Front-End to CVS. and section `Version Control' in The XEmacs Editor.

7.1 About CVS

CVS is the Concurrent Versions System, an open-source network-transparent version control system. More information on CVS can be found at CVS Home.

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