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This morning I found out about SmartCVS; a really
nice looking GUI client for CVS. I've been using WinCVS for a while now, but (no
offense to the developers!) it just didn't feel right. I can't explain
it, but it just didn't give me all that I wanted. (Laugh all you want
about SourceSafe, but
that is a really nice client tool.)
Anyway, I just downloaded SmartCVS a few minutes ago and started
playing with it. It's written in Java so it will run on lots of OSs, and
it's fast too. It looks a lot like IntelliJ IDEA and apparently
JetBrains has signed some sort
of license with SmartCVS to incorporate it into IDEA. There is a free
version and a "pro" version with more features. A single license of
the pro version is $45
USD which doesn't sound too bad. I'm going to keep using the free
version for a while to make sure I really like it, but thus far it
looks like a great tool.
Now if someone would just create a cvs client that can use a
proxy! I'm behind a firewall that blocks most useful
ports, one of which is 2401... Sigh...
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