TortoiseCVS lets you work with files under
CVS
version control directly from Windows Explorer. It's freely available under the
GPL.
With TortoiseCVS you can directly check out modules, update, commit and
see differences by right clicking on files and folders within Explorer.
You can see the state of a file with overlays on top of the normal icons
within Explorer.
It even works from within the file open dialog.
You can perform tagging, branching, merging and importing, and you can go directly to a browser
web log (using ViewCVS
or CVSWeb) on
a particular file.
If you want to work
with an existing repository, download
TortoiseCVS and read the User's Guide.
If you want to set up a new shared repository, you will need a CVS server.
We recommend CVSNT for both Unix and Windows machines.
TortoiseCVS can also be used with original CVS,
but some features depend on a CVSNT server.
There are some CVS things that you can't do with
TortoiseCVS - have a look at the
feature requests database.
The GPL license lets you improve TortoiseCVS, as long as you
make any changes to the source code available. If you would like to
help implement some features,
please see the development section.
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have donated €500 to Oxfam in the name of TortoiseCVS. Thanks a lot.
