Concurrent Versions System
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Concurrent Versions System (CVS, or Concurrent Versioning System) is a version control system originally developed by Dick Grune in July 1986.[4]
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Developer(s) | The CVS Team |
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Initial release | November 19, 1990; 33 years ago (1990-11-19) |
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Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix-like, Windows |
Type | Revision control |
License | GPL-1.0-or-later[3] |
Website | cvs |
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CVS operates as a front end to Revision Control System (RCS), an earlier system which operates on single files. It expands upon RCS by adding support for repository-level change tracking, and a client-server model.[5]
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, CVS is free software.