| Introduction | p. xv |
| Why Open Source Development And CVS Go Together | p. 1 |
| What Is Free Software (And Why Should You Care)? | p. 1 |
| What Does CVS Have To Do With It? | p. 5 |
| Principles Of Open Source Development And How CVS Helps | p. 8 |
| What Makes It All Tick? | p. 9 |
| An Overview Of CVS | p. 13 |
| CVS Basics | p. 13 |
| A Day With CVS | p. 17 |
| Other Useful CVS Commands | p. 50 |
| Branches | p. 66 |
| The Open Source Process | p. 79 |
| Failure And Success | p. 79 |
| Starting A Project | p. 80 |
| Running A Project | p. 88 |
| Knowing What We Don't Know | p. 100 |
| CVS Repository Administration | p. 101 |
| The Administrator's Role | p. 101 |
| Getting And Installing CVS | p. 101 |
| Anatomy Of A CVS Distribution | p. 106 |
| Starting A Repository | p. 111 |
| Finding Out More | p. 137 |
| Designing For Decentralized Development | p. 139 |
| The Importance Of Software Design | p. 139 |
| Proprietary Software Design Vs. Free Software Design | p. 140 |
| Design Invariants | p. 142 |
| Code Design | p. 143 |
| Evolution-Centered Design | p. 147 |
| Principles Of Free Software Design | p. 148 |
| When In Doubt, Abstain | p. 152 |
| Advanced CVS | p. 153 |
| Beyond The Basics | p. 153 |
| CVS As Telephone | p. 153 |
| A Bird's Eye View Of Project History | p. 172 |
| Using Keyword Expansion | p. 180 |
| Going Out On A Limb: How To Work With Branches And Survive | p. 182 |
| That's All, Folks! Welcome To Guru-Hood | p. 199 |
| Building, Testing, And Releasing | p. 201 |
| Why Release? | p. 201 |
| Starting The Release Process | p. 202 |
| Testing | p. 206 |
| Building, Installing, And Packaging | p. 208 |
| Releasing | p. 213 |
| Finding Out More | p. 215 |
| Tips And Troubleshooting | p. 217 |
| When Things Go Wrong | p. 217 |
| The Usual Suspects | p. 218 |
| Common Problems And How To Solve Them | p. 221 |
| Complete CVS Reference | p. 235 |
| Organization And Conventions | p. 235 |
| Commands | p. 235 |
| Keyword Substitution (RCS Keywords) | p. 269 |
| Repository Administrative Files | p. 272 |
| Run Control Files | p. 279 |
| Working Copy Files | p. 280 |
| Environment Variables | p. 282 |
| Third-Party Tools That Work With CVS | p. 285 |
| What Are Third-Party Tools? | p. 285 |
| pcl-cvs: An Emacs Interface To CVS | p. 285 |
| cvsutils: General Utilities For Use With CVS | p. 291 |
| cvs2cl.pl: Generate GNU-Style ChangeLogs From CVS Logs | p. 294 |
| cvslock: Lock Repositories For Atomicity | p. 296 |
| Other Packages | p. 298 |
| Writing Your Own Tools | p. 299 |
| CVS Maintenance And Development Today | p. 301 |
| GNU General Public License | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 311 |
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