Version Management

Lectures

• Problems & issues
  • Collaboration, workspaces, merging/syncing, stable reference versions
  • Evolution in time
  • Variants, configuration
• Practical point of view
  • Tools & solutions: cvs

• Theoretical point of view
  • Artefact as point in Time x Variants x ...
  • Specification of this point for creation, retrieval
• Tools & solutions: vesta, ...

References

Tools

• CVS
• Per Cederqvist et al. Version Management with CVS (for CVS 1.11.2), chapters 1--15.

• SubVersion
• ClearCase
• BitKeeper
• Perforce
• Arch Revision Control System
• PRCS

• Vesta, or previously at Compaq
• Allan Heydon, Roy Levin, Timothy Mann, and Yuan Yu. The Vesta Approach to Software Configuration Management. Compaq Systems Research Center Research Report 168, March 9, 2001. http://www.vestasys.org/.

• Camera
• AutoConf
• DARCS

Collaboration

• Sourceforge
• ClearCase

Collaboration process

• CM patterns

CVM sites

• Brad Appleton's Software Configuration Management Links
• CM today & its yellow pages
• comp.software.config-mgmt FAQs