Hello Erik,

did you tried my SmartCVS ( www.smartcvs.com )? It comes in two versions, a 
free Foundation version and a commercial Professional version. Even the 
latter one comes with a much better feature set (especially for CVS 
novices), than any other (free) competitor on the market, that require you 
to be a CVS freak.

For example, SmartCVS allows you to simply add files, you need not to worry 
to add the surrounding directories before the files, you need not to worry 
whether they are binary or text files. SmartCVS decides it for you. In the 
Professional version, you can run the Status command and the command line 
output (that you have to read in the free competitors) is automatically 
parsed to set the virtual file's "Remote state" attribute, that is 
displayed in the file table. Just two reasons, why to take a look at SmartCVS.

But there is one general problem with binary files like Word or Excel: you 
can't merge them with any CVS client! If you and another developer changed 
one, it will occur a conflict.

Best regards,
Thomas Singer
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  smartcvs.com


At 12:18 07.03.2002 -0800, you wrote:
>My team's developers use IDEA, but we have other members in our group who need
>version control but who aren't developers. (Our web developers store their
>HTML and images, and our business analysts store Word and Excel docs.) We're
>looking at switching from Perforce to CVS because of IDEA's CVS integration,
>but our other group members would have to use some other CVS UI.
>
>I've been looking around a little, and it strikes me that IDEA is the best CVS
>UI I've seen so far. Have you thought about splitting the CVS features out
>into a separate product? If it would easily let our non-techinical users add,
>edit, update, delete and move text and binary files, I bet we'd be willing to
>pay for it.
>
>
>Erik


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