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Title: Essential CVS by Jennifer Vesperman ISBN: 0-596-00459-1 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great start to CVS
Comment: I administer our CVS server at work. We use CVS in the traditional way, to manage source code from a group of people working together on multiple projects. Before this book, I didn't have a single reference that explained all the basic functionality of CVS. Now, when someone has a question, I can pass along this book for a quick answer.
Most of the things you'll do with CVS are covered in sufficient detail in this book. I do agree with the reviewer who mentioned this is not the perfect reference for some tasks - like merging branches. This book will, however, give you all the background information you'll need so that you can effectively research complex topics like this on the web. The title is appropriate - 'essential CVS.' It's not 'everything there is to know about CVS' - and that's a strength of the book. It makes it small enough that the average developer can read the 'quickstart,' and have a basic understanding of how things work. They can then use the more detailed chapters to gain further information. Only the CVS administrator will need a little more. Even for them, this book will be a handy reference.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well-written, well-organized howto
Comment: The first thing I noticed about this book is the logical organization. It starts out with basic CVS functions and uses, then progresses to more advanced tasks and configurations. It is clear and concise, and so well-organized it's easy to look up specific tasks without having to wade through gobs of irrelevant verbiage. It includes many common pitfalls, and what to do about them. It covers logging, scripting, security, local and remote access- this is the best reference for CVS. I recommend it highly all users, beginners to intermediate especially.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Clear on the Merging Branches
Comment: For me the quick way to review a CVS book is to read it's sections on merging branches. It was covered in about two pages in this book and wholely inadequate.
For a general CVS admin reference, it seems OK, but I was too disappointed regarding branches. My quest for a great CVS book continues....
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Title: CVS Pocket Reference, Second Edition by Gregor N. Purdy ISBN: 0596005679 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Open Source Development with CVS by Moshe Bar, Karl Fogel ISBN: 1932111816 Publisher: Paraglyph Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Version Management With CVS by Per Cederqvist ISBN: 0954161718 Publisher: Network Theory Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Java Development With Ant by Erik Hatcher, Steve Loughran ISBN: 1930110588 Publisher: Manning Publications Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Learning the bash Shell, 2nd Edition by Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt ISBN: 1565923472 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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