CVS with grafical interface for windows XP ?

[Milan Vukoslavcevic]

Hi,

could you please tell me where i can find some free CVS with Grafical
interface(GUI), I would like to give it a try in home enviroment for
some hobby project ?


Br,
Milan.

[Arthur Barrett]

Milan,

Post by Milan Vukoslavcevic
could you please tell me where i can find some free CVS with Grafical
interface(GUI), I would like to give it a try in home enviroment for
some hobby project ?

CVS is a client/server system - so you need:
* a graphical interface, eg: TortoiseCVS
* a client, eg: CVSNT 2.x or CVS 1.x or EVSCM 3.x
* a server, eg: CVSNT 2.x or CVS 1.x or EVSCM 3.x

They can all run on one PC if you like.

TortoiseCVS and WinCVS are both popular graphical interfaces and are
both designed to work with CVSNT clients and both CVS and CVSNT servers
(TortoiseCVS includes the CVSNT client).

CVSNT runs on windows/linux/unix wheras I think CVS is ix-only (or
available under 'unix like' windows runtimes like cygwin).

The company I work for fund CVSNT development by selling CVS Suite which
combines several integrations and graphical clients with documentation
and support, which may be helpful for you to know should your home
project morph into a bigger one for work.

Please remember that 'free software' is not about price but about the
freedoms the license grants you.

Regards,


Arthur Barrett

[Arthur Barrett]

Milan,

Please reply to the mailing list - not me privately (use 'reply all').

I gave a try to WinCVS 2.0.2.4 but I was disappointed that appropriate
documentation was only for command line work. There is not appropriate
documentation(explaining GUI activities) for version 2.0. I will take
a look at TortoiseCVS, maybe it is better described.
Thanks a lot for answers.

A few notes:

* if you have a question about TortoiseCVS ask the TortoiseCVS mailing
list not the CVS one

* no GUI is a substitute for education - CVS is a powerful and complex
piece of software. If you are going to rely on CVS for tracking changes
you should buy a good book on the subject and read it thoroughly (eg:
'All About CVS' which I had a hand in writing, or 'Essential CVS' or one
of many others).

* Both TortoiseCVS and WinCVS come with extensive documentation (but I
agree the WinCVS doccs are lacking volunteers to keep it up to date):
http://www.tortoisecvs.org/help.html
And
http://www.wincvs.org/winhtml/wincvs11.htm

* A major feature of free/open source software is that other people
contribute, eg:
http://www.cvsnt.org/pipermail/cvsnt/2005-February/017168.html


Regards,


Arthur Barrett