CVSNT for Linux, Windows, Unix and Mac OS X is a modern version of the CVS Concurrent Versioning System. It is an open source version control tool. It is available here: link to download page.

About CVSNT:

Meet the world’s most popular versioning system. Again. Get to work quickly simply and reliably on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris or HPUX. CVSNT delivers many new features that make it easier than ever to version any file you work with on your computer.

CVSNT Server stores a copy of your files and documents and tracks all of the changes to it over time. Based on CVS which for fifteen years was the most popular versioning tool, CVSNT has added five years of development to build the best modern versioning solution. With 1.4 million downloads in the last year it's probably right for you too.

CVSNT makes it easy to get started with versioning:

• Plugin for E-Mail notification of changes
• Plugin for Audit to MySQL?, ODBC or SQLite
• Authentication against the Active Directory so you can use your windows username
• Mergepoints to track when merges have been made to documents
• Change Sets to put a collection of changes together into the repository, most commonly used with bug numbers
• Multi Threaded Lock server so that transactions are released as soon as your session disconnects
• Atomic checkouts so that you get a clean copy of your project from a single point in time
• Chroot Jail to operate a CVSNT repository in a secure environment
• In built SSH client to simplify connection to secure CVS and CVSNT repositories
• Unicode file support so that Unicode files can be stored efficiently and also merged
• Multi-Lingual filename support
• Reserved edits and preferences that can be centrally administered
• Windows Control Panel for simple administration
• Native IO System for maximum performance on Windows and Linux and Mac OS X
• CVSNT client is bundled with WinCVS? and TortoiseCVS?

-- ArthurBarrett? - 30 Aug 2005