CVS (English: Concurrent Versions System, or Concurrent Versioning System) stands for
Collaborative Version System or
Concurrent Version System . It is a version control system that facilitates software development and user collaboration.
a lot of
CVS uses a client-server architecture: the current version (one or more) of server storage
CVS does not support copying and renaming files.
No atomic commit
CVS only supports text files.
The relationship between CVS and the GNU project has long been somewhat ambiguous: the GNU website distributes programs, marking "GNU packages" on one page, and "other GPL licensed projects" on another page. In 2008, when CVS development was moved from the old website (cvshome.org) to the GNU Savannah hosting platform, it was placed in the "non-GNU" section. In addition, on GNU's FTP download server, CVS is distributed in "non-gnu" directories.
