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Third-Party Tools
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Many people have written programs to augment CVS.  I call these
"third-party tools" because they have their own maintainers, separate
from the CVS development team.  Most of these programs are not
distributed with CVS, although some are.  This chapter covers
third-party tools that I have found useful, but that are not distributed
with CVS.

Although there are some very popular and widely used non-command-line or
non-Unix interfaces to CVS (download sites are listed in Note:
Repository Administration), this chapter does not discuss most of
them.  Their popularity makes it easy to find out more about them from
mailing lists and newsgroups.  One exception to this is the Emacs
pcl-cvs interface, which is very useful, but sometimes tricky to
install.

pcl-cvs -- An Emacs Interface To CVS

cvsutils -- General Utilities For Use With CVS

cvs2cl -- Generate GNU-Style ChangeLogs

cvslock -- Lock Repositories For Atomicity

cvsq -- Queue CVS Commands For Later Connection

Other Packages

Writing Your Own Tools