ViewCVS is a web-based application that SourceForge and other sites use to enable browsing of CVS and Subversion (SVN) repositories on the web. (SourceForge used to use CvsWeb.) ViewCVS lets you browse the entire version history, compare two versions of a file, annotate a file so you can see who changed a particular line, generate context diffs for patches, and more.

The viewcvs repository for TWiki project is currently out of date, since TWiki development is now using SVN hosted outside SourceForge. The old repository is still at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/twiki/twiki/.

You can also create InterWiki links to any TWiki CVS/SVN file - these now point at SVN. Originally CVS:bin/view showed the whole history and CVSget:bin/view referenced just the latest version.

Note that ViewCVS is currently running about 24 hours behind CVS updates, due to SourceForge load problems, so for the latest updates you should either use a CVS client (see CvsReadme) or be patient for a while. TWikiAlphaRelease is built overnight as well, letting you download a complete alpha without using CVS.

SVNget:bin/view is used to point to the latest SVN version of a TWiki source file - see InterSiteLinkRules.

-- RichardDonkin - 30 Oct 2004 (update)