Re: ViewCVS vs. CVSWeb with CVSNT

[Steve deRosier]

Yes, ViewCVS does those also.  One feature I love about it is the 
CVSGraph view.  You can choose to looke at a file's history in a 
graphical graph, with boxes to indicate each version, and it shows the 
branches graphically.  Clicking on any box will bring up the file as it 
was in that version; clicking between any box will bring up a colored 
diff between the two versions.

Of course, all the same info and links are available in "text" 
information also on a different page.  I just find the feature very useful.

It does also handle showing the module file list by tags and branches, 
but I've found the interface implmentation of that to be a bit clunky 
(it works well, but it's not always obvious what state you're in or how 
to change it to the one you want).

- Steve


JacobRhoden wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:40 am, Steve deRosier wrote:
>
> > We use ViewCVS and we love it.  We use it for all sorts of things
> > including tracking the CVS repository and just viewing source files in
> > other projects (have you ever wanted a quick look or printout without
> > checking out the module and opening it in an editor?).  For best usage
> > though, it is good to have both enscript and CVSGraph.  We run it on a
> > Linux server, not NT. You can't grab/checkout a module over the web, but
> > you can grab the full source as a text file for a particular file
> > version.  Also, it's purely a viewer, there's no administrative
> > functions or other CVS functonality to it.
>
>
> cvsweb does all those exact same things (: I dont know viewcvs but I am 
> guessing they are fairly the same. One thing that wasnt mentined as being in 
> ViewCVS but is in cvsweb, is that cvsweb can do diffs between versions of 
> files either on revision numbers, dates or tags. And can view modules based 
> on tag/branch. (: 
>
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