Re: About CVS

[Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 17:14:44 +0800
>> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
>>
>> In 2.2.1 (http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.23/cvs_2.html#SEC12) of
>> the manual, it says "the name of the history file is the name of the
>> corresponding file with `,v' appended to the end".  But I found no `,v'
>> file in my checkout of Emacs web pages repository.
>
> CVS is not a distributed VC system (a.k.a. "dVCS").  It keeps the
> history in only one place: on the server.  When you checkout a
> repository, you don't get the history, only the working tree.
> Whenever you invoke any command that needs to consult the history,
> like "cvs log" or "cvs diff", the CVS client communicates with the
> server to get that info.
>
> The history files are stored on the server, which is why you don't see
> them on the client.

I see, thank you.  I will try to forget my assumptions about how version
control works and try to think about it in the CVS way.

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