{"id":514,"date":"2004-03-03T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T23:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=514"},"modified":"2004-03-03T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T23:30:39","slug":"what-cvs-can-do-for-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"What CVS can do for programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>O<\/span>ne of the more exciting things I&#8217;ve learned as a programmer is being able to grasp CVS as a tool to maintain projects. Sure, CVS has its disadvantages: it&#8217;s clunky, it can be insecure. It can be ununderstandable particularly when you have to start merging code. But there goes nothing above <em>having<\/em> an overview what has actually changed over time. And at the press of a &#8216;button&#8217; (that is when using a &#8216;CVS GUI&#8217;) you can revert changes or even work on multiple versions of your program <em>side by side<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>(And with a web interface, it&#8217;s actually cool to see how a program has changed or &#8216;evolved&#8217; over time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more exciting things I&#8217;ve learned as a programmer is being able to grasp CVS as a tool to maintain projects. Sure, CVS has its disadvantages: it&#8217;s clunky, it can be insecure. It can be ununderstandable particularly when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}