ViewVC

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ViewVC

Using ViewCVS to browse the ViewCVS repository
Latest release:	1.0.3 / October 13, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform (Python)
Use:	Revision control
License:	BSD license
Website:	ViewVC website

ViewVC (formerly ViewCVS) is an open source tool for viewing the contents of CVS and SVN 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 and the view parameters can be modified directly in a URL using a REST style interface.

1 History
2 Developers
3 Components
4 Complementary software
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

ViewVC was inspired by the [CVSweb] application, an older web-based CVS repository viewer written in Perl. The original ViewCVS was a python port of this application, with the intention to add enhancements to the existing functionality.

In 2001 the project was moved to SourceForge, the world's largest software development website. It is currently part of the SourceForge infrastructure by virtue of that fact that it is the repository browser used by the site.

One of the enhancements made was the ability to browse Subversion repositories. The eventual maturity of this support meant that the name "ViewCVS" was no longer appropriate. This, combined with SourceForge's lack of support for Subversion, lead to the project being renamed "ViewVC" and moving to tigris.org. This name change and migration occurred in late 2005.

[edit] Developers

Some of the people involved with the development of ViewVC are:

Greg Stein
Jay Painter
Tanaka Akira
Tim Cera
Peter Funk
Lucas Bruand
C. Michael Pilato
Russell Yanofsky
James Henstridge

[edit] Components

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

[edit] Complementary software

cvsgraph - allows graphical display of the branches and tags associated with a file in the repository.
GNU enscript - allows syntax highlighting of ViewVC output.
MySQL - for the commit database.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

ViewVC website
ViewVC project page
ViewVC view of the ViewVC repository
CVSGrab - Reads a CVS repository via the ViewCVS web interface. (Useful for getting through a corporate firewall, where access to the pserver is not possible.)