Essential CVS (Essentials)

Appendix B. Administrator's Tools

CVS is an open source program, and all the information necessary to interface to it or change it is freely available. It is also a very popular system. The combination of these two factors means that a wide variety of programs and tools have been written for CVS.

The tools in this appendix range from a port of CVS to the Windows NT operating system, to a small tool to mail log messages automatically. Other programs include several different viewers to display the contents of the repository with an HTTP server and a useful program that implements access-control lists.