CVS Support with Beyond Compare

CVS is a "code versioning system" that allows developers to create version-controlled repositories for all their software projects. You can use BC with CVS but that process is limited to a File Difference viewer. To view directories you must maintain downland the CVS directory(s) into local directories that are separate from you development directories. Then you must use BC to compare the local CVS repository with your development directory. Afterwards, you must manually add or commit the changes in the local CVS directory back into the server repository. Obviously, this manual process is error prone and crude.

Idea: Integrate CVS support into BC.
1) You could view differences in files and directories with local copy and DIRECTLY into the CVS server repository.
2) When you save the server-version, you automatically get the check-in dialog and commit features.

This would be huge save and great use of the tool.

This appears to be more than just a file viewer extension? Is that correct? ThomasB@UniversalMind.com

[Chris]

Thank you for the suggestion.

Directly comparing local files to a CVS (or other VCS) repository is on our wish list for a future version of Beyond Compare.

In the current version, you might be able to call command line check-in/check-out commands using BC's context Open With menu. You can configure the Open With commands in the Open With section of Tools|Options.