Codeminer™ CVS Manager

CVS Repository Managing Software

CodeMiner CVSManager is a comprehensive repository monitoring and reporting tool for managing change sets in CVS (Concurrent Versioning System). This web-based software helps Product Manager monitor changes and project development. CVS Repository Administrators and Development Team managing large projects would find this tool very useful and handy, especially during active development of the project and during the project release.

With CVS Manager, you can get answer for critical questions about your repository, such as

• Is my project converging?
• How has my project progressed over time?
• What critical files had been added in the last few hours?

Using CodeMiner CVSManager, you can troubleshoot frequent file changes, view reports of the project over the years, configure user privileges, do administration activities to lock or unlock and manage repositories.

The user based activity report, yearwise report and project summary report gives more insight on the daily productivity details of the project. Graphs, charts, and tables provide real-time views of the repository file system.

CVS Manager Free Download

Download CodeMiner CVS Manager. You can evaluate it free of charge for 45 days. To know more about the free download, refer Download CVS Manager page.

CVS Manager Highlights

Active Projects

Active projects report is the consolidated view of the list of projects added to CVSManager. It can be used to compare projects with various timelines.

Activity Based Reports

CodeMiner CVSManager presents a rich set of reports that assist in project management. The Project Summary and the Module Growth are graphical versions of the repository activity on the basis of user and modules in the repository. The recent change log gives the summary of activities done in the project in the last few hours.

Browse Projects

The project can be browsed by clicking the modules shown in the directory growth graph. The effective recent changes in the repository can be identified with the Recent ChangeLog feature in the page.

The file history with various criteria of file change attributes can be viewed such as annotate, option to view with file constraint etc.,

Reports

CodeMiner CVSManager helps to generate reports on Branch Activity and Year Summary of projects that are grouped together by means of intuitive bar graphs. These summary reports will be helpful during the parallel development of a project. The Yearwise reports will project the overall project development over a period of years and the graphs are generated based on lines of code and the number of commits in the project.

It also helps to generate reports based on the file tags. The tags are the important references of the project, which are used to reproduce the project at any instance.

The graphical representation of top 5 users in a project will help to understand the number of commits done to a project in different time frame.

Tools

Tools are the efficient way to perform activities to the repository. We have included the "Branch Creation Tool", "Review Tag Tool" and "Tag Request Tool" as part of CVS Manager, which will be useful during every Life Cycle of the project/product. The priority to release Service Pack after the project/product release is inevitable to any organization. The Service Pack is the option to give customer the necessary fixes of the changed fileset over the release. The servicepack trunk may be different from the MAIN trunk in most of the cases to seggregate the changes and to consolidate the fixes at any later stages of the release.

To facilitate the creation of branches for the servicepack release we have included the tool "Branch Creation Tool" through which the administration can be performed easily on activating/deactivataing the branches can be done

Search

Search in CVSManager is used to find a particular file in the project, based on the search criteria. The advance search will help to find the file list across all the configured projects. The search criteria can be based on tags, authors, file name, log message etc.

Favorite Projects

To add a project as a Favorite project, click the  icon in the home page for that project. Now, click on Show Favorite Projects Only will show only the selected projects. This setting will be saved in a cookie and when you visit the page next time, it will show only the Favorite Projects. If you want to see all the projects, click on Show All Projects. You can remove any project from your favorite list by clicking the  icon for that project. When you clear the cookies this setting will be cleared.

CVS Manager with EXT/SSH support:

Along with pserver support, CVS Manager can able to monitor repositories using EXT method through using SSH Authentication.
Files can be downloaded, Get CVS diff between two revisions and CVS annotations can be done for the files in the repository.

Available for Different OS Platforms

CVS Manager is available for Windows and Linux OS platforms.