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MikeVic
09-13-2004, 12:14 PM
I know there are a few programming/web people here, so I thought I'd ask this question:

Has anyone used ViewCVS with the web-based front-end, and successfully changed the generated web pages to look nicer? Also, I'm assuming ViewCVS is capable of doing files updates, checkouts, etc. over the web... let me know if it doesn't. :)
Glengoyne
09-13-2004, 12:21 PM
I know there are a few programming/web people here, so I thought I'd ask this question:

Has anyone used ViewCVS with the web-based front-end, and successfully changed the generated web pages to look nicer? Also, I'm assuming ViewCVS is capable of doing files updates, checkouts, etc. over the web... let me know if it doesn't. :)
Be a man and use the command line interface;) .
MikeVic
09-13-2004, 12:30 PM
This will be used by a few people, who don't know command-line... :) So that's why it has to look "nicer." Since there is a possibility that not-so-very-technical people will be using it.
Simms
09-13-2004, 12:56 PM
Should not-so-very-technical people be using CVS in the first place? :)

I'm a pretty technical person, and it scares me to death, with or without a pretty front-end. :D
cwilloughby
09-13-2004, 02:21 PM
You could just forward the port through to the cvs server and have them use a CVS client (ala winCVS) directly connected. Then, you could use the OS' authentication to keep baddies out.

That's what we do.
Glengoyne
09-13-2004, 02:24 PM
Should not-so-very-technical people be using CVS in the first place? :)

I'm a pretty technical person, and it scares me to death, with or without a pretty front-end. :D
This I agree with. I know I'd be frightened at what an inexperienced someone would do with access to CVS. Though I guess that the front end would be developed with that in mind, so as long as the requisite levels of permissions exist, and are used you'd be ok.

I haven't implemented CVS at this site, but in the past I wrote access routines/scripts for the developers to interact with the repository, because duhvelopers are simply not to be trusted.
hhiipp
09-13-2004, 02:27 PM
Personally I think you should walk into CVS to get your prescriptions filled.
NevStar
09-13-2004, 03:16 PM
www.eclipse.org

May be a little bloated if all you want to use it for is a CVS front-end. But my employers will be happy I gave them a plug.
MikeVic
09-15-2004, 02:11 PM
One of my profs was in charge of some Eclipse stuff here, and hires people to do documentation for the application.

About ViewCVS... apparently when it's web-based, there's no commit, checkout, update, etc... you can just view the listing of files, and see some comments. If anyone here uses ViewCVS at all, have you gotten any additional CVS functionality out of it?