Using ViewCVS to browse the ViewCVS repository |
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| Developer(s) | Greg Stein |
| Initial release | December 10, 2001 |
| Stable release | 1.1.12 / November 3, 2011 |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Revision control |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | http://www.viewvc.org/ |
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.
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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 at the time, led to the project being renamed "ViewVC" and moving to tigris.org. This name change and migration occurred in late 2005.
Some of the people involved with the development of ViewVC are:
ViewVC consists of two main components. The first part is the repository browser. The second part is the commit database.