TkCVS

TkCVS is a Tcl/Tk-based graphical interface to the CVS and Subversion configuration management systems. The user interface is consistent across Unix/Linux, Windows, and MacOS X. TkDiff is included for browsing and merging your changes.

TkCVS shows the status of the files in the current working directory, and has tools for tagging, merging, importing, exporting, checking in/out, and other user operations.

TkCVS also aids in browsing the repository. For Subversion, the repository tree is browsed like an ordinary file tree. For CVS, the CVSROOT/modules file is read. TkCVS extends CVS with a method to produce a "user friendly" listing of modules. This requires special comments in the CVSROOT/modules file.

Although TkCVS now supports Subversion, it will still work happily without it in your CVS directories. It didn't abandon CVS, it just grew some new capabilities.

What is new in this release:

• This release supports Subversion 7.1, in which the location of the Subversion subdirectories has changed.
• Its appearance with Wish 8.5 has improved.
• There are minor enhancements and bugfixes.

What is new in version 8.2.1:

• A history of commit log messages is kept during a session, so you can copy and paste from messages you've used previously. This has been a much-requested feature.
• Enhanced Subversion functionality
• Locking and unlocking
• Enhanced contextual menus
• Symbolic links are marked
• Bugfixes.

What is new in version 8.2:

• Merge arrows are drawn in the Branch Browser for merges tracked by Subversion 1.5's mergeinfo property and CVSNT's mergepoint feature.
• The branch diagram can be searched to find a version, date, tag, or author
• Log browser always produces a verbose log of revisions on the selected branch instead of obeying the Directory Browser's "Log Detail" setting
• If your SVN repository has a structure similar to trunk, branches, and tags but with different names, you can tell TkCVS about it by setting variables in tkcvs_def.tcl: set cvscfg(svn_trunkdir) "elephants" set cvscfg(svn_branchdir) "dogs" set cvscfg(svn_tagdir) "ducklings"
• Fix a bash-ism in contrib/cvsdiff
• Changed the trace levels so that "F" lets you get the CVS/SVN stdout without the whole debug output

Requirements:

• Tcl/Tk
• Apache Subversion