PVC (disambiguation)
PVC is the plastic polyvinyl chloride.
PVC also may refer to:
- Param Vir Chakra, military honor of India
- Provincetown Municipal Airport, IATA Airport Code
- Pro-vice-chancellor, a senior academic in a managerial role
- Peripheral venous catheter, intravenous tube
- Permanent virtual circuit, in electronic networks
- Premature ventricular contraction, heart condition
- PVC (german band), german punk rock band
See also
PVCS
PVCS Version Manager (originally named Polytron Version Control System) is a software package by Serena Software Inc., for version control of source code files.
PVCS follows the "locking" approach to concurrency control; it has no merge operator built-in (but does, nonetheless, have a separate merge command). However PVCS can also be configured to support several users simultaneously attempting to edit the file; in this case the second chronological committer will have a branch created for him/her so that both modifications, instead of conflicting, will appear as parallel histories for the same file. This is unlike Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Subversion where the second committer needs to first merge the changes via the update command and then resolve conflicts (when they exist) before actually committing.
Originally developed by Don Kinzer and published by Polytron in 1985, through a history of acquisitions and mergers, the product was at times owned by Sage Software of Rockville, Maryland (unrelated to Sage Software of the UK), Intersolv, and Merant Software. The latter was acquired by Serena Software in 2004, which was then acquired by Silver Lake Partners in 2006.
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