Motivation
CVS is based on a pure centralistic organizational model and offers very little offline support. Almost all version control operations require direct access to the '' repository''. Therefore, worldwide distributed software development efforts face heavy performance problems when using CVS. DCVS tackles this issue by distributing the central CVS repository on many sites.Features
DCVS provides all CVS functionality. But unlike CVS a DCVS system may comprise an arbitrary number of geographically distributed repositories whose contents are kept equal in the background by an extended version of '' CVSup'', a program developed by John D. Polstra. The combination of ''DCVS repository'', extended ''CVSup server'' and ''DCVS server program'' will be called ''DCVS server'' in the following paragraphs. All contents of all development lines can be ''checked out'' from any of the DCVS servers into a ''DCVS workspace'' owned by a developer. All operations that do not modify the repository, such as ''History
DCVS has been developed by team members of Elego Software Solutions GmbH in Berlin/Germany. The first release of DCVS was in August 2002. In November 2005 version 1.0.2 was released. The project was terminated sometime before late 2023, with the repository deleted.External links