Free cvs software for linux

gCvs is a set of GUI front-end for CVS written in C++ and distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
Main features:
- Sophisticated graphical user interface helps to utilize full power of CVS for experts and quickly learn basics for beginers.
- Native look-and-feel on Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux thanks to the use of popular GUI frameworks like MFC, CJLibrary, Metrowerks PowerPlant and gtk+.
- Scripting support allows to easily automate, extend and customize common tasks.
- Realtime sandbox view with visual indication of the local state of files.
- Various filters to monitor any folder or all its subfolders in a flat view.
- Command line support makes any CVS commands or command options not directly handled by GUI possible.
- Repository tags, modules and files browser allows to easily enter command parameters.
- Changes in the files can be verified using diff command or external diff application.
- File revisions history can be displayed as a graph.
- Supports text, binary and Unicode file types.
- The type of the files is automatically detected upon import and add command.
- Reserved edits help to organize team work.
- Close cooperation with CVSNT project resulting in very dynamic and effective development of new features.
- Full source code provided.

Whups provides a ticket and bug tracking system.
It is designed to be extremely flexible in letting users define kinds of tickets, different life cycles (sets of states) and priorities for each kind of ticket, and mixing types of tickets into sets of queues.
This design allows for very general and sophisticated multi-purpose uses.
Main features:
- Support for multiple "Queues" (aka Projects).
- Custom ticket types, states, priorities per Queue.
- Create, Assign, Close tickets.
- Search for tickets matching specific criteria.
- A complex query building for building and saving/storing custom searches.
- A reporting facility include graphs.
- Guest access (in addition to login access).
- E-mail notification of changes to tickets.
- Some groups/permisions support (more to come).
Enhancements:
- Ensure that a due date in a prior year doesnt make the EditTicketForm invalid (Bug #4763).
- Remove saved searches (Request #4897).
- Calculate ticket date attributes when they change instead of on every access (php@ideacode.com, Request #4893).
- Queries are now managed as shares, but the serialized bits are stored and managed by Whups in their own dedicated table.
- Allow guest access to query page.
- Smarter word wrapping in string representations of tickets (Request #4510).
- Add a Queue Summary block showing queues with the number of open tickets in each (Request #4628).
- Combine the People tab with the Update tab.
- Allow changing ticket queues as long as the user has DELETE permissions on the current queue and EDIT permissions on the new queue (tmerritt@email.arizona.edu, Request #4268).
- Add hours and minutes to due dates.
- Always use Summary for the ticket summary field label.
- Add Slovenian translation (Duck ).
- Show the requester in search results (rodion (at) nezna (dot) com, Bug #2820).
- Show either the Comment or Update tabs depending on permissions, but not both.
- Report the last-updated date for tickets (Bug #2396).
- Tickets now have an optional due date field.
- New updateTicket API call (Ben Klang , Bug #4101).
- Check permissions when setting ticket attributes through an API call (Ben Klang , Bug #4098).
- If guests can add tickets but not view them, dont tell them adding failed (Bug #3630).
- Add Unassigned Tickets Horde_Block (Request #766).
- [mas] Fix sorting in summary page to better handle dates. (Bug #2930)
- Add CAPTCHA support to the Add Comment and Create Ticket forms.
- Deliver RSS feeds in a way that supports USM (http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/usm.html, Request #2593).
- processMail() now ignores emails that were generated by Whups (Bug #3398).
- [ben] Better support for MS-SQL.
- Add Norwegian (Bokmal) translation (Torbjorn Grindhaug ).
- "My Bugs" page is now a Horde_Block layout (Request #3202).
- Fix permissions checking for ticket comments when an admin user is the one making the comment (Bug #2673).
- Delete searches by getvars string, not by name (Bug #3197).
- Allow to assign tickets to foreign groups

cvsd is a wrapper program for cvs in pserver mode.
cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It is relatively easy to configure and tools are provided for setting up a rootjail.
This server can be useful if you want to run a public cvs pserver. You should however be aware of the security limitations of running a cvs pserver. If you want any kind of authentication you should really consider using secure shell as a secure authentication mechanism and transport. Passwords used in cvs pserver are transmitted in plaintext and this wrapper wont change that.
This server adds a layer of security to cvs. cvs is a very powerful tool and is capable of running scripts and other things. By running cvs in a rootjail it is possible to limit the amount of "damage" cvs can do if it is exploited. It is generally a good idea to run cvsd without any write permissions to any directory on the system.
Enhancements:
- This release adds some further portability improvements for 64-bit systems to the cvsd-buildroot command.
- Socket and file close operations are now checked, and a Portuguese debconf translation was added.

This provides a package which presents the CVS contents as mountable file system. It allows to view the versioned files as like they were ordinary files on a disk. There is also a possibility to check in/out some files for editing.
Main features:
- Development Status: 1 - Planning, 3 - Alpha
- Environment: Curses, No Input/Output (Daemon), X11 Applications
- Intended Audience: Developers, System Administrators
- License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
- Natural Language: English, German
- Operating System: Linux
- Programming Language: C, C++
- Topic: CVS, Filesystems
Installation
untar the Archive with the Command
tar -zxvf cvsfs-1.1.9.tar.gz
change in the Directory cvsfs1.1.9
cd cvsfs-1.1.9
type:
./configure then make
and then as root:
make install

LinCVS is a graphical Interface for the cvs client commandline tool on the Unix, Windows and Mac OS X platform. LinCVS allows to load modules from a server (checkout), create modules on the server (import), as well as checking the state of directories and individual files or updating them.
Basic operations like add, remove and commit are supported as matter of course, just like showing the actual differences between the server version and the local sandbox, graphical display of the version tree, and manifoldy graphical support of project maintenance. All actions are logged on the cvs server (configurable via history), and are therewith comprehensible.
To keep LinCVS independant of the cvs version, LinCVS uses the local but separat installed cvs and therewith always should work with the latest version.
After choosing a startup dir, the project-explorer searches the subdirectories for cvs projects, and displays these on the workbench. Now all functions on one/many files or whole directories can be accessed over pulldown menues or simply a right mouseclick. The state of the individual directories is continuously scanned by LinCVS.
This means the symbol of the dir tells the user that there are for example still uncommited changes somewhere in the depth of a dir hierarchy, even without having opened them yet. So the project state is visualized right after a cvs status call. Completed with on-the-fly dir scanning, LinCVS is qualified for large projects with many thousand files.
Because of the continuous efforts of network administrators, to encrease network security, LinCVS supports all standard cvs connection protocols. Proxy support is also available, this requires a patched cvs. This is of course available on our download page.
Because LinCVS does not affect the cvs internal project maintenance, a concurrent use with cvs commandline is possible. The function of the LinCVS dir state display is not impaired therewith.
Even though LinCVS graphically supports almost the whole cvs range of functions (and is continuously under development;-), it is easy to customize the GUI to the individual needs. Popup menues are freely configurable, while the menues always provide full feature access. An extra toolbar enables direct access to often used features.
In contrast to other programs this one is really easy to use.
Enhancements:
- This version fixes a lot of bugs.

cvs2svn is a Python script that converts a CVS repository to a Subversion repository. The project is designed for one-time conversions, not for repeated synchronizations between CVS and Subversion.
Enhancements:
- The conversion is now driven explicitly by the CVS dependency graph, giving a more robust conversion and fixing a few subtle bugs that existed in prior releases.
- A new --use-internal-co option has been added.
- It accelerates conversions significantly by avoiding having to use CVS or RCS to extract revision contents.
- Numerous other improvements to the quality of conversion, new conversion options, and bugfixes have been implemented.

cvsgdiff uses tkdiff or mgdiff to graphically display diffs between CVS revisions of a file in your sandbox. cvsgdiff is basically a graphical version of "cvs diff".

If given no arguments, cvsgdiff will launch the graphical diff program once for every modified file in the current directory.

If given one or more filenames as arguments, cvsgdiff diplays the diffs of each file. If given a revision, cvsgdiff will display the diffs between the file in your sandbox and the BASE revision in CVS. If given two revisions, cvsgdiff will display the diffs between the two revisions in CVS for the given file. The files in your sandbox are not touched.

cvsgdiff works by checking out the specified (or defaults to BASE) revision of the specified file(s) into your tmp directory and then launches a graphics diff program to display the differences.

The files in your tmp directory are then removed when you exit the graphical diff program. cvsgdiff currently supports tkdiff and mgdiff. It first checks the environment variable GDIFF. If it is set, that program will be tried first. If the GDIFF environment variable specifies an absolute path but does not exist, cvsgdiff will then look for tkdiff and mgdiff.

CvsGraph is a utility to make a graphical representation of all revisions and branches of a file in a CVS/RCS repository.
CvsGraph project has been inspired by the graph option in WinCVS, but I could not find a stand-alone version of this graph code. So, it was time to write one.
Enhancements:
- Merge lines between branches with the same parent were drawn cross-over.
- These were made easier to see by forcing them to originate on one side of the revision boxes.