From gnu@ai.mit.edu Wed May 22 05:03:05 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 05:29:26 -0500
From: Benjamin Lee <benjamin@cyclic.com>
Sender: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
To: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu, info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Subject: CVS 1.8 Released
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CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why
changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS.  It has some configuration
management features (such as pre and post commit triggers), but
according to some definitions is not a full configuration management
system.  For example, the following tasks can be done in conjunction
with CVS but will tend to require some script-writing and software
other than CVS: bug-tracking, build management (that is, make and
make-like tools), and automated testing.

CVS 1.8 is available for anonymous FTP from the GNU FTP sites in the
file cvs-1.8.tar.gz.

Report bugs to bug-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu; see the README file in the CVS
distribution for more information about reporting bugs.

There is no set of diffs from 1.7.xx available.

Here is a list of new or changed features since of course there
have also been many bugfixes:

* New "cvs annotate" command to display the last modification for each
line of a file, with the revision number, user checking in the
modification, and date of the modification.  For more information see
the `annotate' node in cvs.texinfo.

* The cvsinit shell script has been replaced by a cvs init command.
The cvs init command creates some example administrative files which
are similar to the files found in the examples directory (and copied
by cvsinit) in previous releases.

* There is now a $USER internal variable for *info files.

* There is no longer a separate `mkmodules' program; the functionality
is now built into `cvs'.  If upgrading an old repository, it is OK to
leave in the lines in the modules file which run mkmodules (the
mkmodules actions will get done twice, but that is harmless); you will
probably want to remove them once you are no longer using the old CVS.

* One can now specify user variables in *info files via the
${=varname} syntax; there is a -s global option to set them.  See the
Variables node in cvs.texinfo for details.


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