What Is ViewVC?
ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version
control repositories. It generates templatized HTML to present
navigable directory, revision, and change log listings. It can
display specific versions of files as well as diffs between those
versions. Basically, ViewVC provides the bulk of the report-like
functionality you expect out of your version control tool, but much
more prettily than the average textual command-line program
output.Here are some of the additional features of ViewVC:
- Support for filesystem-accessible CVS and Subversion
repositories.- Support for path-based authorization, including parsing and
honoring Subversion authz configuration files.- RSS feed generation for tracking changes to repositories or
individual items within repositories.- Individually configurable virtual host support.
- Line-based annotation/blame display.
- Revision graph capabilities (via integration with CvsGraph)
(CVS only).- Syntax highlighting support.
- Bonsai-like
repository query facilities.- Template-driven output generation.
- Colorized, side-by-side differences.
- Tarball generation (by tag/branch for CVS, by revision for
Subversion).- Localization support based on the Accept-Language request
header.- Ability to run either as CGI script or as a standalone
server.- Regexp-based file searching.
- INI-like configuration file (as opposed to requiring actual code
tweaks).For a complete list of changes present in each release, see
ViewVC's CHANGES file.Here are some screenshots of ViewVC:
