Features of SmartCVS 6
Following table gives details on features which are present in SmartCVS 6 Foundation and Professional version. New features and improvements since version 6 (compared to version 5.1) are highlighted. The complete list of changes for version 6 can be found in the Change Log.
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| Supported Platforms | ||
| Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista |  |
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| Linux, Unix and derivates | |
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| Any other platform that supports Java 1.4.1 or higher (e.g. OS/2) | |
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| Supported Authentication Methods | ||
| Password Authentication (pserver) | |
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| Secure Password Authentication (sserver) | |
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| Built-In SSH-1 (e.g. SourceForge) | |
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| Built-In SSH-2 | |
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| Proxy support | |
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| Supported CVS Commands | ||
| import (to create a module), checkout, update, commit, add, remove, log, tag, rtag | |
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| import (to track third-party changes), annotate, edit, unedit, editors, lock, unlock, watch, watchers, release |  |
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| Nearly all commands operate on nested modules and even nested projects (from different repositories!) | |
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| Keyword Substitution Support | ||
| Basic support (add, update commands) | |
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| Advanced support (changing) | |
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| Smart Extensions | ||
| Graphical Log with chronological order | |
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| Built-In Repository Browser to select the files to check out (instead of typing their path) | |
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Change Sets: organize changed files in task-related groups to prepare the commit operation
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| Ability to list all transactions (commits) and see, what files were added, removed or changed, possibility to save transaction information to XML-file | |
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| Ability to search for commits by the log message | |
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| Ability to list all (even removed) repository files or those which have a specified tag | |
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| Ability to compare repository files by tags | |
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Change Report: shows detailed changes (locally, repository) for multiple files at once
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Ability to mark unchanged files with modified file-time as unchanged
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| Smart Commit (add, remove and commit files with one click) | |
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| (Smart) Commit optionally changes touched, but unmodified files, so they occur unchanged again | |
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View Remote State beside the file; see changes in the repository, even for locally not available files
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| View Editors beside the file | |
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| View last author beside the file | |
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Tag Browser, showing the tag order and branch-structure
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| Ignore Files/Directories (explicitly/by pattern, globally/locally) | |
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| Export Snapshot (to directory or zip-file) | |
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| Simple Revision Pinning (to prevent accidently committing of temporary changes) | |
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| Display/Navigation | ||
| Flat File view (to see all files from subdirectories, too) | |
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| Display of what directories contain uncommitted files | |
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Display sticky branch behind directory name
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| Filtering by file state (show/hide ignored, non-CVS or unmodified files) | |
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| Filtering by file name for all file tables | |
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| Individual File Table sorting, also by multiple columns simultaneously | |
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| Search files while typing the name (incl. wildcard-support) | |
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| Copying the path or name of the selected file to system clipboard | |
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| Go-To File (search by prefix or wildcards) | |
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| Administration | ||
| Create and edit user accounts within the repository | |
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| Key-pair generator for public key authentication | |
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| Built-in Tools | ||
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File Compare with detection of inline-changes and the possibility to edit files, ability to store the files as colored (printable) HTML-file
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| Conflict Solver (3-Way-Merge) | |
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| External Tools | ||
| Ability to use different external file compare tools (even for binary files) | |
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| Ability to define different file editors/viewers by pattern | |
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| Ability to use external tool for solving conflicts | |
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| Miscellaneous Features | ||
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Customize accelerators (short-cuts) and popup menus (context menus)
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| Check for SmartCVS-updates | |
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| Easy to use wizards assist in non-trivial or rarely used operations | |
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| Automatic detection of UTF-16 encoded text files for Built-in File Compare and Conflict solver | |
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| Ability to convert (inner-line) tabs to spaces while committing | |
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| Implicit Login | |
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| Smart daylight saving solution | |
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