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Other Packages
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Many other third-party packages are available for CVS.  Following are
pointers to some of these.

CVSUp (Part Of The FreeBSD Project)
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CVSUp is an efficient generic mirroring tool with special built-in
support for mirroring CVS repositories.  The FreeBSD operating system
uses it to distribute changes from their master repository, so users can
keep up to date conveniently.

For more information on CVSUp in general, check out
`http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/'.

For its use in FreeBSD in particular, see
`http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP'.

CVSWeb: A Web Interface To CVS Repositories
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CVSWeb provides a Web interface to browsing CVS repositories.  A more
accurate name might be "RCSWeb", because what it actually does is allow
you to browse revisions directly in a repository, viewing log messages
and diffs.  Although I've never found it to be a particularly compelling
interface myself, I have to admit that it is intuitive enough and a lot
of sites use it.

Although the software was originally written by Bill Fenner, the version
most actively under development right now seems to be Henner Zeller's,
at `http://linux.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/'.

You may also want to visit Fenner's original site at
`http://www.freebsd.org/~fenner/cvsweb/' and possibly Cyclic Software's
summary of the CVSWeb scene at
`http://www.cyclic.com/cyclic-pages/web-cvsweb.html'.

Finally, if you'd like to see CVSWeb in action, a good example can be
browsed at `http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/'.

The CVS contrib/ Directory
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As mentioned in Note: Repository Administration, a number of
third-party tools are shipped with CVS and are collected in the
contrib/ directory.  Although I'm not aware of any formal rule for
determining which tools are distributed with CVS, an effort may be in
process to gather most of the widely used third-party tools and put
them in contrib/ so people know where to find them.  Until that
happens, the best way to find such tools is to look in contrib/, look
at various CVS Web sites, and ask on the mailing list.