13.1. Team Programming with CVS

CVS is one of the most widely used team repositories and is especially well suited for distributed teams using the Internet for connectivity. It is easy to install on a server for small ad-hoc project teams that need to coordinate their development activities, or on a notebook computer for versioning private work. Because CVS is open source and used by many other open source projects—including Eclipse—many developers are already familiar with its use, and good documentation is available at no cost to you.

Team repositories use a client-server architecture for sharing files and coordinating interaction among users. The client side is built into the Eclipse workbench as plug-ins that provide views and preferences to