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214Chapter 8Know What You Have: CVSthose tags into branches in your source tree. We also discussed how to showthe history of those changes and the status of a source file. Finally, we took aquick look at a GUI for use with CVS, for those so inclined.8.5WHAT YOU STILL DON’T KNOW• The myriad of administrative commands which help you manage andmaintain a source library. Most of those commands you won’t need, butit’s nice to know that they are available, just in case. Refer to theCederqvist document (Section 8.6) for all the gory details.• How to set up remote users for sharing a CVS repository on a network,especially the use of the CVS_RSH environment variable.• How CVS integrates into development tools. We’ll see this in the comingchapters; for example, CVS interaction is built into NetBeans, SunONEStudio, and Eclipse.• How good it feels to have CVS come to the rescue so you can recover aversion of something that you thought was lost. May you never have tolearn this the hard way.8.6RESOURCES• Version Management with CVS by Per Cederqvist et al. is the “official”manual for CVS. It can be viewed as HTML or downloaded as HTML,PDF, or PostScript from http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/.• Chapter 6 of The LINUX <strong>Development</strong> Platform: Configuring, Using andMaintaining a Complete Programming Environment by Rafeeq Rehman andChristopher Paul (ISBN 0130826758, Prentice Hall PTR) gives a goodintroduction to CVS. They give more information, too, on jCVS as wellas on how to integrate CVS into Emacs.