MacCVS/WinCVS

MacCVS is a CVS client for the Macintosh (talking to a server running on Unix; for example Apple's MkLinux should work fine for a server). The Windows port of MacCVS is known as WinCVS.

MacCVS/WinCVS has a nice graphical user interface; see the WinCVS.org page for screenshots and other information.

Command Line

MacCVS has a command line user interface which can either be driven from AppleEvents (for example, to implement a graphical user interface on top of it) or from the finder (but this is just for testing; it would be cumbersome to use this way).

Matthias Neeracher is said to have ported MacCVS to run from the command line of the MPW development environment, but I'm not sure whether those changes are in the main MacCVS distribution.

Historical Information

MacCVS 2.x was distributed with CVS 1.10 but has since been removed; you almost surely want the latest MacCVS from WinCVS.org instead.

The CVS Macintosh download directory contains various obsolete downloads - again you almost surely want WinCVS.org or one of the other more up to date sites.

The following information about MacCVS 3.0 is out of date. Again, you probably are better off with the up to date information at WinCVS.org.

• MacCVS 3.0 announcement (17 Dec 1997)
• MacCVS status as of 29 Dec 1997
• ChangeLog describing differences from one version of MacCVS to the next.

• Executables and source code are available at the WinCVS.Org page.

• The most appropriate mailing list is info-cvs which also covers CVS. To subscribe send mail to info-cvs-request@gnu.org.
• The newsgroup for MacCVS/WinCVS (and other version control systems) is comp.software.config-mgmt.