Editing Concurrent Versions System (section)

== History ==
Grune recalled:<ref name="Grune" />
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| I created CVS to be able to cooperate with my students, Erik Baalbergen and Maarten Waage, on the ACK ([[Amsterdam Compiler Kit]]) C compiler. The three of us had vastly different schedules (one student was a steady 9-5 worker, the other was irregular, and I could work on the project only in the evenings). Their project ran from July 1984 to August 1985. CVS was initially called cmt, for the obvious reason that it allowed us to commit versions independently.
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Grune publicly released the code on June 23, 1986.<ref name="mod.sources" />

The code that eventually evolved into the current version of CVS started with Brian Berliner in April 1989, with later input from Jeff Polk and many other contributors. Brian Berliner wrote a paper introducing his improvements to the CVS program—which describes how the tool was extended and used internally by Prisma, a third-party developer working on the SunOS kernel, and was released for the benefit of the community under the GPL.<ref name="Berliner" /> On November 19, 1990, CVS version 1.0 was submitted to the [[Free Software Foundation]] for development and distribution.<ref name="1.0" />

The latest version was released on 8 May 2008.<ref name="latestversion" />