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What Is ViewCVS?ViewCVS is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. It generates templatized HTML to present navigable directory, revision, and change log listings. It can display specific versions of files as well as diffs between those versions. Basically, ViewCVS provides the bulk of the report-like functionality you expect out of your version control tool, but much more prettily than the average textual command-line program output. Here are some of the additional features of ViewCVS:
And the best feature of them all — ViewCVS is written in Python, so it doesn't suffer from the "unmaintainable code effect" that hits most Perl projects (like its predecessor, CvsWeb) sooner or later: "[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript." — Jamie Zawinski For a complete list of changes present in each release, see ViewCVS's CHANGES file. RequirementsThe only hard software requirement for running ViewCVS is Python 1.5.2 or later. All other requirements depend on what you want to do with the tool. If you plan to use ViewCVS with CVS repositories, you need the following things: For use with Subversion repositories, you need these things:
ViewCVS integrates with additional pieces of software to provide certain bits of optional functionality:
Future PlansViewCVS is a Open Source project. So any future development depends on the contributions that will be made by its user community. Certainly working patches have a greater chance to become realized quickly than feature requests, but please don't hesitate to submit your suggestions to our issue tracker. Some things we're thinking about include:
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