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   <h1>OpenBSD</h1>
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   <h3>Anonymous CVS Access:</h3>
 <p>  <p>
 <h3>CVS Access:</h3>  Anonymous CVS is a method of keeping your local copy of the OpenBSD source
 CVS is used to manage the OpenBSD source tree. This allows  tree up to date with respect to changes made to current OpenBSD sources.
 developers to work on a local source tree and commit their changes when  
 ready.  Also <strong>anyone</strong> can edit source files on their  
 local machines, and automatically track and merge in any changes made  
 in the OpenBSD CVS repository. Additionally they can easily see the  
 logs of, check out, or "diff" the source files in the OpenBSD source  
 tree.  
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 <p>  <p>
 Most importantly, the <strong>anoncvs</strong> service does NOT  The major advantage of Anonymous CVS over other source code update
 delete the changes you make in your local copy of the source tree --  techniques is that it works directly against a central source code
 read on for more details!  repository or mirror.  This means that you have the full set of CVS
   commands available to control merging and updating your changes with
   other source changes and for performing diff's, change histories
   and other queries against the central repository.
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   <h3>CVS:</h3>
   CVS is the source code control system used to manage the OpenBSD source tree.
   It implements a central repository for all officially relased source code
   and changes, while permitting developers to maintain local copies of the
   source code with their working changes.  Developers with "write access"
   can commit changes directly to the OpenBSD source tree, while "Anonymous
   CVS" users have "read access" and can keep their local copies of the source
   up to date and issue queries against the central depository.
   </p>
   <p>
   The major strength of CVS is that it has the ability to preform intelligent
   merges of changes to the central repository with changes that you make to
   your local copy.  This means that if you make a change to a module and
   perform an update, your changes are not "blown away", rather CVS makes
   best efforts to merge the changes made to the central sources with changes
   you've made to your local copy.
   </p>
   <p>
   In the event that the changes can't be completely merged, CVS provides a
   "soft fallback", in terms of providing you with annotated changes to your
   local copy, preeserving an unmodified copy of your version and continuing
   to update any other source modules you requested.
   </p>
   <h4>CVS COMMAND SUMMARY</h4>
   <dl>
   <DT>add
   <dd>Add a new file or directory to the repository.
   <dt>get
   <dd>Make a working directory of source files for editing.
   <dt>commit
   <dd>Apply changes to the source repository (write access)
   <dt>diff
   <dd>Show differences between local files and the source repository.
   <dt>history
   <dd>Show reports on cvs commands against the source repository.
   <dt>log
   <dd>Display CVS log information.
   <dt>rdiff
   <dd>Prepare a collection of diffs reflecting changes between release.
   <dt>status
   <dd>Show current status of files in the repository and local copies.
   <dt>update
   <DD>Bring your working directory up to date with the repository.
   </dl>
   <p>
   To summarize, the reaal strengh of using Anonymous CVS is that it is
   a "tolerant" source code control system - it <strong>respects</strong>
   changes that you have made to your local sources and makes <strong>
   "best efforts"</strong> to update your entire source tree, rather than
   leaving you a list of arcane problems that have to be resolved before
   continuing.
   </p>
   
   <h3>Using Anonymous CVS:</h3>
 <p>  <p>
 The latest version of CVS is available at  The latest version of CVS is available at
 <a href=ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/>Cyclic</a>.  <a href=ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/>Cyclic</a>.
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 <strong>Anoncvs rsh vs. ssh</strong>  <strong>Anoncvs: rsh vs. ssh</strong>
 <br>  <br>
 By default, the CVS client uses rsh to talk to the CVS server.  Many  By default, the CVS client uses rsh to talk to the CVS server.  Many
 of the CVS sites no longer supprt rsh for security reasons or a local  of the CVS sites no longer supprt rsh for security reasons or a local
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