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Open Source Development with CVS
by Karl Fogel


A Free CVS Book

Open Source Development with CVS is a book published by Coriolis Inc. as part of the Coriolis OpenPress series. Chapters 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10 -- comprising a complete introduction, tutorial and reference to CVS -- are being released free under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

These chapters are a complete CVS book unto themselves; they amount to approximately 225 printed pages. On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't want to discourage you from purchasing the published treeware version:

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You can get it directly from the publisher at http://www.coriolis.com/bookstore/bookdetail.cfm?id=1576104907 (due to Amazon.com's recent abuse of the patent system, I am participating in a boycott of Amazon, and ask that you not purchase this book, nor any other, from them).

Reviews:
Bob Arnson of Inpublishing's Developer News has reviewed the entire book; you can read his review online. Andrew Grumet has reviewed it at Philip Greenspun's Bookshelf (the review is about midway down the page). And Pjotr Prins has written a review for the Netherlands Unix Users Group e-zine, at http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=71.

Recent Changes:
Browse the ChangeLog to see what's changed recently in the online copy of the book.

Errata:
If you have already purchased a copy, you may wish to consult the list of known errors. This list applies only to the treeware; errors in the online copy are corrected as soon as known, so there's no need to maintain a list.

The Free Chapters

The free chapters are available in several formats:

The Non-Free Chapters

Chapters 1, 3, 5, and 7 deal with the challenges and philosophical issues inherent in running an Open Source project using CVS. While the free chapters do constitute a complete CVS book by themselves, we certainly hope you'll like them enough to purchase a treeware copy of the entire book!

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