MacCVSClient

MacCVSClient is a CVS client for the Macintosh (talking to a server running on unix) to provide a Macintosh-like graphical user interface.

Do not confuse MacCVSClient with MacCVS Pro or MacCVS; they are three separate programs despite the similarity in names.

Screen Shots

Start with the connection dialog (GIF, 3K) which prompts for the information needed to connect to a CVS server. Then proceed to the checkout dialog (GIF, 8K), which asks you what you want to check out from CVS.

Once you have files checked out, select the "File/Open" menu to bring up the module window (GIF, 9K) which shows a list of files and information about each one.

If several people edit the same file in incompatible ways, it is a "conflict". The conflict window (GIF, 8K) shows you the conflicts so that you can resolve them with a text editor.

To display the differences between two revisions of a file, first select the "CVS/Diff" menu which will bring up the diff dialog (GIF, 5K) which prompts for information such as whether to ignore spaces in showing differences. Then files which have changed are displayed with a delta icon and you can double click them to bring up the diff window (GIF, 8K) which displays added lines, deleted lines, and unchanged lines in different colors.

• Executables and source code are available at the author's site. Note that MacCVSClient 1.3.3 or later is strongly recommended; the earlier version had a bug which, although documented, could cause data loss.

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