CVS

This article is a tweaked version of several tutorials around. Many of the original links courtesy of Adrian Simmons. Thanks to all the others who gave me loads of help in IRC and thanks to Jerad at Lullabot for inspiring me to dive in to Git with this article.

If you want to contribute to the Drupal project, you need to know how to use CVS. It's a version control system, like Subversion, but older and clunkier. Still, Drupal have been using it for *years* so I can hardly blame them for not switching. From the command line in Linux it's straightforward enough, and anyway, I can't talk because they're not switching from CVS for the same reason I'm not switching from Windows (even though it would make far more sense for me to abandon Microsoft and install Ubuntu). In a word: hassle!