About PCL-CVS

PCL-CVS is a front-end to CVS versions 1.9 and later. It concisely shows the present status of a checked out module in an Emacs buffer and provides single-key access to the most frequently used CVS commands. For Emacs users accustomed to VC, PCL-CVS can be thought of as a replacement for VC-dired (see section `Dired under VC' in The GNU Emacs Manual) specifically designed for CVS.

PCL-CVS was originally written many years ago by Per Cederqvist who proudly maintained it until January 1996, at which point he released the beta version 2.0b2 and passed on the maintainership to Greg A Woods. Development stayed mostly dormant for a few years during which version 2.0 never seemed to be able to leave the "beta" stage while a separate XEmacs version was slowly splitting away. In late 1998, Stefan Monnier picked up development again, adding some major new functionality and taking over the maintenance.

As of Emacs 21, PCL-CVS is part of the standard Emacs distribution.

• Contributors: Contributors to PCL-CVS.
• Installation

Contributors to PCL-CVS

Contributions to the package are welcome. I have limited time to work on this project, but I will gladly add any code that you contribute to me to this package (see section Bugs (known and unknown)).

The following persons have made contributions to PCL-CVS.

• Brian Berliner wrote CVS, together with some other contributors. Without his work on CVS this package would be useless...
• Per Cederqvist wrote most of the otherwise unattributed functions in PCL-CVS as well as all the documentation.
• Inge Wallin wrote the skeleton of `pcl-cvs.texi', and gave useful comments on it. He also wrote the files `elib-node.el' and `compile-all.el'. The file `cookie.el' was inspired by Inge.
• Linus Tolke contributed useful comments on both the functionality and the documentation.
• Jamie Zawinski contributed `pcl-cvs-lucid.el', which was later renamed to `pcl-cvs-xemacs.el'.
• Leif Lonnblad contributed RCVS support (since superceded by the new remote CVS support).
• Jim Blandy contributed hooks to automatically guess CVS log entries from `ChangeLog' contents, and initial support of the new Cygnus / Cyclic remote CVS, as well as various sundry bug fixes and cleanups.
• Jim Kingdon contributed lots of fixes to the build and installation procedure.
• Greg A. Woods contributed code to implement the use of per-file diff buffers, and vendor join diffs with emerge and ediff, as well as various and sundry bug fixes and cleanups.
• Greg Klanderman implemented toggling of marked files, setting of CVS command flags via prefix arguments, updated the XEmacs support, updated the manual, and fixed numerous bugs.
• Stefan Monnier added a slew of other features and introduced even more new bugs. If there's any bug left, you can be sure it's his.
• Masatake YAMATO made a gracious contribution of his cvstree code to display a tree of tags which was later superseded by the new cvs-status-mode.

Apart from these, a lot of people have sent us suggestions, ideas, requests, bug reports and encouragement. Thanks a lot! Without you there would be no new releases of PCL-CVS.

Installation

As mentioned above, PCL-CVS comes bundled with Emacs version 21.1 and later. If you're using Emacs 20, you can download an older version of PCL-CVS from ftp://flint.cs.yale.edu/pub/monnier/pcl-cvs. That version also works on XEmacs.

If you are running XEmacs 21.0 or later, PCL-CVS is available in pre-compiled package form. Please refer to the XEmacs manual for instructions regarding package selection and installation. Currently, that PCL-CVS package also requires you to have installed the `xemacs-base', `elib', and `dired' packages.

If you have TeX installed at your site, you can make a typeset manual from `pcl-cvs.texi'.

1. If PCL-CVS came with the Emacs distribution, type make pcl-cvs.dvi in the `man' subdirectory of the Emacs source tree.
2. Alternatively, run TeX by typing texi2dvi pcl-cvs.texi.
3. Convert the resulting device independent file `pcl-cvs.dvi' to a form which your printer can output and print it. If you have a PostScript printer, there is a program, dvi2ps, which does. There is also a program which comes together with TeX, dvips, which you can use.

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