## 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:

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 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). Pjotr Prins has written a review for the Netherlands Unix Users Group e-zine, at http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=71. And Elizabeth Zinkann has written a review for SysAdmin magazine: http://www.sysadminmag.com/archive/0905/books.shtml (the review is partway down the page).

Translations:

- German
  The MITP-Verlag, has made a German translation, see http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/translations/german/.

- Japanese
  Takeuchi Kahori <take-k@secom-sis.co.jp> has started a Japanese translation; please see http://kahori.com/j-cvsbook/.

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

Errata:
If you have a copy of the first printing, you may wish to consult the list of known errors. This list applies only to the treeware, and only for the first printing. The second printing has corrected these bugs, and of course errors in the online copy are corrected as soon as known, so there's no need to maintain a list there.

## The Free Chapters

The free chapters are available in several formats:

- On-line HTML.

- Postscript (uncompressed)
- PDF (uncompressed)

- Anonymous CVS Access (The CVS working copy for this book.)

## 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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