There's always cygwin. TortoiseCVS and WinCVS are front ends, and CVS itself ships as a windows binary too.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 at 16:54 -0700, Eric Jensen wrote: > Anybody tell me how to interact with CVS/GNU Arch repository on a Linux > server with a Windows client? Any good coding software that supports it? > > Eric Jensen > > Eric Jensen wrote: > > >We've also been looking into CVS or something like. But I am having a > >hard time even wrapping my head around it for a web development > >environment. For example, you can't just check out the code into your > >work folder and hack away since apache needs to feed it out if you > >want to test it. For self contained projects that each user can run > >their own instance of, it makes perfect sense. Right now I have it > >setup so the projects are always checked out into a development > >directory that apache does serve and when you complete the testing you > >just commit the files and then run a script that blasts it out to all > >the appropriate servers. Also changed up the permissions so all > >coders can work on these files. Which takes away the user tracking > >functionality of CVS. > >You can really tell this is our first time with a CVS system. I am > >very interested in hearing about all the types of CVS-type systems out > >there and their pros and cons for a web environment. Or even just > >better ways to lay it out. > > > >Eric Jensen > > > >Roberto Mello wrote: > > > >>On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:06:12PM -0700, Steve Meyers wrote: > >> > >> > >>>We're looking into possibly moving to something besides CVS for our > >>>version control. One we are looking into is GNU Arch. > >>>Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be as well documented, and it > >>>seems it might be a bit immature at this point. It does seem to > >>>have some cool features though. Is anyone here using it, and if so, > >>>what are your thoughts? > >>> > >> > >> > >>I wouldn't say immature. It needs polishing, UI, etc. but its design is > >>the best I've seen so far of the open source batch. And it works well, > >>very well. > >> > >>subversion is a pile of hacks. It is made to work, but just enough so > >>that > >>people used to CVS can feel warm and cozy. It does very well at that, > >>hence the number of old CVS front-ends that have been made to work with > >>svn. > >> > >>You might want to look at Bazaar, a version of GNU arch focused on > >>improving arch's UI, usability and front-end-ability. It was created > >>and maintained by the Canonical (Ubuntu) folks, and will remain as > >>compatible as possible with regular gnu arch. > >> > >>-Roberto > >> > >> > >> > > > >.===================================. > >| This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > >| Don't Fear the Penguin. | > >| IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > >`===================================' > > > > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' > -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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