CVS tools and links (obsolete)


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Last updated at 12:00 am UTC on 17 January 2006

This is now obsolete. See Getting source using the SubVersion repository instead

This is not an extensive list of CVS tools but hopefully a nice link collection to help you find a suitable tool and some documentation on CVS.

Central urls for CVS:

http://www.cvshome.org, the homepage of CVS.
http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html, a very good "top" site.
http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_toc.html, one of the really definitive manuals. Very good and detailed. Read it.
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/, do NOT miss this. A very good book with large parts freely available on the net. (I have this book and it is very good)
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Configuration_Management/Tools/Concurrent_Versions_System/, the link collection at DMoz.

Good clients:

http://www.componentsoftware.com/products/cvs/, Windows client. Extremely easy to set up and use. Has alot of useful features. Free for open source developers.
http://www.sente.ch/software/cvl/, Mac OS X client very easy to use.
http://www.maccvs.org, one of the best clients for the Mac AFAIK.
http://www.cvsgui.org, probably the best for Win32. Also has a Mac and a Gtk (Unix/Linux) version. I have used the Win32 version a lot and it is good. moved to sourceforge
http://www.twobarleycorns.net/tkcvs.html, I have been searching for a really good visual client for Linux and this might be one of the best. Seems a bit slow sometimes but it has tons of features.

Other tools for Linux are Pharmacy, Cervisia (both not really continued I think) and LinCVS (which is similar to gCVS from http://www.cvsgui.org).

Unfortunately I haven't found a really good one for Linux except for maybe TkCVS, I need to play with it more...

Note: Almost all of the available clients are GUI wrappers around the same executable. This means most often the operations work just fine, the differences are all in the presentation. So you don't need to worry about messing something up when using a rather unknown client.

Note 2: SqCVS is a reimplementation of the pserver client side which will (when it is ready) mean that we can have full CVS client support directly in Squeak. For SF access we would on the other hand still need some form of SSH though.
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