George Smith wrote:

We have decided to go away from Microsoft Visual Source Safe and use CVS.

Is there more than one implementation of the CVS client and server, if so which one

for a MS windows shop ?

My first question would be - if you have decided on CVS did you already consider Subversion ( http://subversion.tigris.org/ ) ? Its basically a rewritten CVS with a lot of the kinks ironed out. Many CVS sites are migrating to subversion and sourceforge will be introducing support for it next year. However if you have decided on CVS - its relatively simple to migrate across later and still preserve all your history.



Thanks and sorry if this question is inappropriate.

Its kinda off-topic for the nant list but here goes.
For a MS shop - cvsnt ( http://www.cvsnt.com/cvspro/ ) used to be the way to go and probably still is. You can install it as a service and use windows network authentication with it.


As for clients you can use either:
1) the commandline client ( from https://www.cvshome.org/ )
since you're migrating from source safe you'd probably prefer a gui so either :
2) tortoisecvs - a windows explorer extension for cvs http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
3) WinCvs - a repository browser style of gui ( http://www.wincvs.org/ )


personally I find tortoise to be the best client - its simple to use and understand - but others may feel differently.

you might also find the following link useful - a guide to setting up a cvs server on windows.
http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm#install


the cvsnt site also has some useful guides and references.

Ian






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