Re: CVS Information

[Arthur Barrett]

Alicia,

> I already have O'Reilly's Essential CVS book. If you know of any other
> CVS resources, such as website links, books, etc. that would help,
> would you please reply back via email. Thank you in advance for your help.

I had a hand in writing the eBook "All About CVS" so I'd recommend that one 
;)  Essential CVS which you already have though has been the one book that 
most CVS Admins have read for many years though.

> CVS Backup – Step-by-step guide of how to backup a CVS repository;

I thought the ORielly book covered that ?  A simple copy or rsync of the 
repository will do - preferably shut down connections to port 2401 during 
the copy, but even that's optional...

> CVS Security – Step-by-step guide on how to prevent the deletion of
> files from CVS; How to make files read-only;

This is a rather vague question - if you are looking for access control of 
sandboxes you probably need the CVSAcls script or to migrate to CVSNT 
(unix/linux/windows, GPL/Free just like CVS but with additional features), 
if you are wanting to secure the repository itself then that's easy: no user 
should have be able to login to the box except admins (just disable 
interactive logins for all normal users).

> CVS Best Practices – Best practices for merging branches into the
> trunk (merge conflicts); It would be nice to know how other companies
> are maintaining CVS projects;

Again the O'Rielly book or google - generally as a rule though you should 
look at what business objective your organisation has for implementing SCM, 
then find a SCM process that supports that objective then implement that 
process using a set of tools that have the necessary features - copying 
someone elses process will rarely achieve that result.

Regards,


Arthur