Chetan Bhargava wrote:

> Although I have used cvs clients (winCVS) on windows in the past, I
> have never used or configured a CVS server on windows. I'm not sure
> how the functionality is on windows as compared to unix. 

cvs is not really the way to go on Windows. The cvs port to Windows was 
originally cvsnt, which then developed some interesting features and got 
ported back to Linux/Unix/Mac. While still based on the cvs code, it is a 
quite different beast now, and has many features that cvs doesn't have. So 
currently there are two source bases that are commonly referred to as 
"cvs": the original cvs and cvsnt. The command, protocol and repository 
structure are still quite similar, and cvs clients can talk to cvsnt 
servers and do the basic operations, and cvsnt clients can talk to cvs 
servers.

> Below is an excerpt from Open Source Development with CVS, 3rd Edition.
> [...]

What was written there may be true for the original cvs, but it's 
definitely ignoring the existence of cvsnt as a widely compatible fork of 
cvs. I (as many others) have a (true) cvsnt server running on a Win2k box, 
and it runs just fine.

You can find a (maybe not completely balanced) comparison between cvsnt and 
cvs at http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/compare.htm

Gerhard

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