Re: Meeting 2001-06-19 - CVS: Commitment to avoid being commited.

[Jamie McCarthy <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of the many amazing things about CVS is that its security
protocols can ride on top of ssh.  If your developers generate ssh
keys and the CVS admin puts them in its authorized_keys file, your
team gets strictly-controlled access over the net.  It's incredible
how much this simple system can help a far-flung team work together
on a single project.

SourceForge in fact offers shells that you can ssh into, add your
own keys to your own project's authorized_keys, and build your own
network of trusted developers.  SourceForge wouldn't exist without
CVS.

And it's not limited to computer code.  CVS works _great_ for HTML
development as well, tracking your entire web tree.  Want to see what
your website looked like six months ago?  Restore an old copy and
check it out!  Or, for collaboration on a novel.  Or anything where
one or more human beings works on anything vaguely textual :)

CVS unfortunately has a steep learning curve -- I'm still climbing
it after a year of intermittent use -- but it's a key development
tool.
--
 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg