So I’ve been looking for a stable, easy-to-use, CVS GUI for Mac OS X. Here are some I’ve ran across:

MacCVS – http://www.wincvs.org/
CVL – http://sente.epfl.ch/software/cvl/
MacCVSClient – http://www.heilancoo.net/MacCVSClient/

I downloaded all of these programs and the only one which I could get working was MacCVSClient. It turns out to have a nice interface as well. MacCVS required some python libraries that I had trouble installing. And CVL had a clumsy interface. I was able to specify my remote CVS repository, but it could never authenticate to it.

MacCVSClient was a breeze to configure for my remote repository. It effortlessly connected over SSH2. I had no problem checking out my project, and when I edited files in my local sandbox it was very easy to commit them to the repository. Overall, MacCVSClient seems to be what I was looking for. Oh yeah, it’s free. Nice.

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