Release 5.3.1, February 18, 2002.

jCVS is a Java based CVS Client. CVS is a source code control system based on RCS. The primary benefit of CVS is that it provides a server/client protocol which allows clients such as jCVS to be written. jCVS allows any Java capable machine to be a CVS client, providing for a totally distributed source code management system.

The User Manual Table Of Contents is a good place to start. This is the same documentation displayed by the builtin help.

For those familiar with Java, cd to bin/ and java -jar jcvsii.jar.

For Windows users, there is a shortcut in the bin/ directory. If you edit the properties, and fix the path to the javaw.exe program to match your JDK or JRE installation, then you should be able to double-click the shortcut and launch jCVS II.

The jCVS home page will keep you abreast of new releases, as well as point you to download locations.

jCVS is free software that is licensed to you under the GNU General Public License.

This license allows you to use, modify and redistribute this software in a fashion that promotes productivity and the free exchange of programming concepts.

The CVS client package, com.ice.cvsc, is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).

For more information on the history, and future, of free software, please visit the Free Software Foundation.

Thanks to all of the contributors. If I have inadvertently left your name off this list, please let me know!

• Eric Albert

• Nick Bower

• Gérard Collin

• Stefaan A Eeckels

• Etienne-Hugues Fortin

• Alain Fagot

• Richard Garand

• Frank Gerlach

• David Gunthorpe

• Dirk Haase

• Andreas Huber

• Sherali Karimov

• Liping Li

• Paul Libbrecht

• Thorsten Ludewig

• Jean Rebillat

• Julian Salerno

• Mark Schlagenhauf

• Wes Sonnenreich

• Andrew Thompson

• Matthias Tichy

• Manfred Usselmann

• Roger Vaughn

• Urban Widmark

• Shawn Willden

Thanks to all of the daring beta testers:

• Brenda Butler

• Brian Haughton

• Brian Lenihan

• Brian Utterback

• Byron Faber

• Fung Peng

• Greg Cockroft

• Herve Poirier

• Jean-Max Reymond

• Jim Allard

• Klaus Rehm

• Preston Bannister

• Rolf Ebert

• Rick Noble

• Ram Tumuluri (aka rk)

• Stephen Steneker

• Stuart Corrans

Many thanks to Jim Kingdon, Mister client/server protocol.

Thanks to Owen S. Medd for risking his disk drive to very early releases, and knowing where to find good coffee.

We also need to pay serious homage to my wife for putting up with 18 hour days of hacking! I can not thank my wife enough for her understanding of my little programming problem. Maybe it’s time for that twelve step program…​.

Free Software! Get with the program.

tim.

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jCVS is licensed to you under the GNU General Public License.