CVS Clients

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Tools for CVS: Web browsing

• viewVC (formerly viewCVS)
• CVSweb
• Chora
• codestriker

Tools for CVS: GUI front-ends

Linux

• Free/open-source GPL-only copyleft
  • gCVS (CvsGui project) (GTK2)
• Free/open-source Other
  • pharmacy (GTK2) (a GNOME compliant front-end)
  • TkCVS (Tcl/Tk)
  • CrossVC (QT) (used to be LinCVS)
  • Cervisia (QT) A CVS gui frontend for KDE
  • Eclipse
• Proprietary
  • CrossVC XXL (QT) (non-free version of CrossVC)

Windows

• Free/open-source GPL-only copyleft
  • WinCVS (CvsGui project)
  • TortoiseCVS
  • TortoiseSVN (contains TortoiseMerge, which can be used with TortoiseCVS or WinCVS)
• Free/open-source Other
  • Eclipse
• Proprietary
  • CS-CVS free of charge for Open-Source developers.
  • CrossVC XXL (QT) (non-free version of CrossVC)

Macintosh

• Free/open-source GPL-only copyleft
  • MacCVS (CvsGui project)
• Free/open-source Other
  • CrossVC (QT)
  • Eclipse
• Proprietary
  • CrossVC XXL (QT) (non-free version of CrossVC)

Java platform

• Free/open-source Other
  • boneclipse-cvsgrapher plugin for Eclipse
  • NetBeans IDE 5.0 comes with CVS support
• Proprietary
  • SmartCVS Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Solaris. Free Foundation version and commercial Professional version.
  • SmartSmartSynchronize Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Solaris. Free Foundation version and commercial Professional version.

Multiplatform

• Free/open-source GPL-only copyleft
  • CvsGui (WinCVS/MacCVS/gCVS)
• Free/open-source Other
  • CrossVC (QT) Runs on Linux/Unix, Windows and Mac OS X (used to be LinCVS)
  • Eclipse has built in fully functional CVS GUI. very good, resource intensive.
• Proprietary
  • SmartCVS (Java-based) Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Solaris. Free Foundation version and commercial Professional version.
  • CrossVC XXL (QT) Runs on Linux/Unix, Windows and Mac OS X (non-free version of CrossVC)

Tools for CVS: Reporting and Statistics Gathering

• General
  • CvsChangelogBuilder1 Build graphical html reports and changelogs with different formats.
  • StatCvs, cvstat
  • Cvsplot
  • Bloof
• Java-specific
  • JCVSReport

Tools for CVS: Miscellaneous

• meld interesting as diff tool
• BuildBot can help project management. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed to the CVS