Authors of GNU CVS
The conflict-resolution algorithms and much of the administrative file
definitions of CVS were based on the original package written by Dick Grune
at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam <[email protected]>, and posted to
comp.sources.unix in the volume 6 release sometime in 1986. This original
version was a collection of shell scripts. I am thankful that Dick made
his work available.
Brian Berliner from Prisma, Inc. (now at Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
<[email protected]> converted the original CVS shell scripts into reasonably
fast C and added many, many features to support software release control
functions. See the manual page in the "man" directory. A copy of the
USENIX article presented at the Winter 1990 USENIX Conference, Washington
D.C., is included in the "doc" directory.
Jeff Polk from BSDI <[email protected]> converted the CVS 1.2
sources into much more readable and maintainable C code. He also added a
whole lot of functionality and modularity to the code in the process.
See the bottom of the NEWS file (from about 1992).
david d `zoo' zuhn <[email protected]> contributed the working base code
for CVS 1.4 Alpha. His work carries on from work done by K. Richard Pixley
and others at Cygnus Support. The CVS 1.4 upgrade is due in large part to
Zoo's efforts.
David G. Grubbs <[email protected]> contributed the CVS "history" and "release"
commands. As well as the ever-so-useful "-n" option of CVS which tells CVS
to show what it would do, without actually doing it. He also contributed
support for the .cvsignore file.
The Free Software Foundation (GNU) contributed most of the portability
framework that CVS now uses. This can be found in the "configure" script,
the Makefile's, and basically most of the "lib" directory.
K. Richard Pixley, Cygnus Support <[email protected]> contributed many bug
fixes/enhancement as well as completing early reviews of the CVS 1.3 manual
pages.
Roland Pesch, then of Cygnus Support <[email protected]> contributed
brand new cvs(1) and cvs(5) manual pages. Thanks to him for saving us
from poor use of our language!
Paul Sander, HaL Computer Systems, Inc. <[email protected]> wrote and
contributed the code in lib/sighandle.c. I added support for POSIX, BSD,
and non-POSIX/non-BSD systems.
Jim Kingdon and others at Cygnus Support <[email protected]> wrote the
remote repository access code.
Larry Jones and Derek Price <[email protected]> have been maintaining and
enhancing CVS for some years. Mark D. Baushke <[email protected]> came on in
2003.
Conrad Pino <[email protected]> began maintaining the Windows port in 2004.
There have been many, many contributions not listed here. Consult the
individual ChangeLog files in each directory for a more complete idea.
In addition to the above contributors, the following Beta testers
deserve special mention for their support. This is only a partial
list; if you have helped in this way and would like to be listed, let
bug-cvs know (as described in the Cederqvist manual).
Mark D. Baushke <[email protected]>
Per Cederqvist <[email protected]>
J.T. Conklin <[email protected]>
Vince DeMarco <[email protected]>
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Lal George <[email protected]>
Dean E. Hardi <[email protected]>
Mike Heath <[email protected]>
Jim Kingdon <[email protected]>
Bernd Leibing <[email protected]>
Benedict Lofstedt <[email protected]>
Dave Love <[email protected]>
Robert Lupton the Good <[email protected]>
Tom McAliney <[email protected]>
Eberhard Mattes <[email protected]>
Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Thomas Mohr <[email protected]>
Thomas Nilsson <[email protected]>
Raye Raskin <[email protected]>
Harlan Stenn <[email protected]>
Gunnar Tornblom <[email protected]>
Greg A. Woods <[email protected]>
Many contributors have added code to the "contrib" directory. See the
README file there for a list of what is available. There is also a
contributed GNU Emacs CVS-mode in tools/pcl-cvs.
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