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ViewCVS

ViewCVS is an open source tool for viewing the contents of CVS and Subversion (software) repositories using a web browser. It allows you to look at specific revisions of files as well as side by side Diffs of different revisions. It is written in Python programming language.

=Components=

ViewCVS consists of two main components. The first part is the repository browser. The second part is the commit database.

=Complementary software=

cvsgraph - allows graphical display of the branches and tags associated with a file in the repository.

GNU enscript - allows syntax highlighting of ViewCVS output.

MySQL - for the commit database.

=See also=

CvsWeb

=External Links=

[http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/ ViewCVS website]

[http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/viewcvs/ ViewCVS view of the ViewCVS repository]