CVS User Interfaces

Some of the most popular graphical user interfaces for CVS are:

tkCVS

Unix, Windows, and maybe Macintosh.

jCVS

Any suitable Java platform.

MacCVS Pro

Macintosh.

MacCVSClient

Macintosh.

MacCVS/WinCVS

Macintosh and Windows.

For more technical information, including several more interfaces which are (perhaps) less widely used, see Development of CVS: User Interfaces.

We have a separate page about CVS and Development Environments (Developer Studio, emacs, CodeWarrior, &c).

Another style of user interface is the world wide web. The cvsweb package allows users to browse the revision history of a CVS tree with a web browser. The Bonsai package is somewhat similar but focuses on querying CVS to find various kinds of information. A more special purpose tool is FAQ-O-Matic which allows people to edit version controlled files with a web browser.

The information which had been on this page concerning bug-tracking systems (Jitterbug, RUST, GNATS), autoconf/automake, documentation, and other version control systems (SCCS, RCS), has been moved to our Gallery page, which contains pages on these programs and other free software for programmers and web authors.