Re: best windows client?

[Geoff Beier]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:56:31AM -0500, Phil Labonte wrote:
> I have CVS setup on a Linux server. I have several Windows clients that 
> are using WinCVS... 
> 
> I have done some searching and nothing else really comes up for Windows....
> 
> Is that the best client to use?
> 
> Specifically what I am looking for would be a client that would let a 
> user pick individual files from the repository and then be able to check 
> out those files...?
> 
> Is there anything like that available for CVS?
> 

The eclipse IDE lets users select individual files. You really have to
stay on top of updates, though, because it implements the CVS protocol
internally in order to accomplish this, and minor updates have been known to
break it.

My favorite win32 client (and the only one I actively support for our
users) is TortoiseCVS. http://tortoisecvs.sourceforge.net/

It's based on cvsnt and integrates nicely with the shell. It handles all
the normal developer tasks quite nicely. For administrative tasks, you
may still want the command line tools.

Regards,

Geoff