CVS and LinCVS

• CVS is a mature version control system supporting concurrent development

  • Other systems such as MS SourceSafe don't support concurrent development – only one user can edit a file at the same time
  • Provides ability for collaborative development making it easier for larger teams to work on the same code base
  • Provides cabability for release management and branching. Multiple software releases can be managed from the same code base. ie. Make production fixes to release branch while coding continues in the development branch

• Other expensive proprietary systems available such as MS Source Safe, BitKeeper, ClearCase