ViewVC — Web-based Version Control Repository Browsing
Latest Release
The most recent release of ViewVC is: 1.0.5
New IRC Channel for ViewVC
Use your favorite IRC client to pop into #viewvc on
irc.freenode.net.
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
- Individually configurable virtual host support
- Line-based annotation/blame display
- Revision graph capabilities (CVS only)
- Syntax highlighting support
- Commit metadata query facilities
- Template-driven output generation
- Colorized, side-by-side differences
- Tarball generation (by tag 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.
Screenshots
Who needs screenshots when you can visit and interact with running
ViewVC instances? The following sites are running various versions
of ViewVC:
- ViewVC has been integrated into CollabNet Enterprise Edition,
and is used by Tigris.org
to serve up displays of both CVS- and Subversion-backed projects
hosted there (such as the ViewVC project itself).
- ViewVC is also deployed at SourceForge.net,
where it again serves up both CVS and Subversion repositories.
- The Subversion development community uses ViewVC on svn.collab.net.