TkCVS and TkSVN

TkCVS supports Subversion

TkCVS is a Tcl/Tk-based graphical interface to the CVS and Subversion configuration management systems. It will also help with RCS. The user interface is consistent across Unix/Linux, Windows, and MacOS X. TkDiff is included for browsing and merging your changes.

TkCVS shows the status of the files in the current working directory, and has tools for tagging, merging, importing, exporting, checking in/out, and other user operations.

TkCVS also aids in browsing the repository. For Subversion, the repository tree is browsed like an ordinary file tree. For CVS, the CVSROOT/modules file is read. TkCVS extends CVS with a method to produce a "user friendly" listing of modules by using special comments in the CVSROOT/modules file.

Although TkCVS now supports Subversion, it will still work happily without it in your CVS directories. It didn't abandon CVS, it just grew some new capabilities.

Screen shots

FAQ
Change Log
A short illustrated introduction to CVS/TkCVS
CVS Vendor Merge tutorial (pdf)

Changes in version 8.2

The Branch Browser can now draw merge arrows for merges tracked by Subversion 1.5's mergeinfo property and CVSNT's mergepoint feature. The work-around of using tags is no longer necessary, if your Subversion or CVSNT server and client support their own merge tracking.
The Branch Browser has a new search ability, so you can highlight a revision on the diagram by its version, date, tag, or author.
The Log button in the Branch Browser always produces a full log of revisions on the selected branch instead of inappropriately following the Directory Browser's "Log Detail" setting.
If your SVN repository has a structure that's functionally similar to trunk, branches, and tags but with different names, you can tell TkCVS about it by setting variables in tkcvs_def.tcl:

cvscfg(svn_trunkdir)
cvscfg(svn_branchdir)
cvscfg(svn_tagdir)

TkCVS 8 requires Tcl/Tk8.4. If you need to use Tk8.3 and don't use Subversion, you can still download TkCVS 7.2.5.

Download for Unix: tkcvs_8_2.tar.gz Download for PC: tkcvs_8_2.zip Stand-alone (includes AquaTk runtime) for MacOSX: tkcvs_8_2.dmg.gz	Download for Unix: tkcvs_7_2_5.tar.gz Download for PC: tkcvs_7_2_5.zip Stand-alone (includes AquaTk runtime) for MacOSX: tkcvs_7_2_5.dmg.gz

You need Tcl/Tk in order to use TkCVS, except for the Macintosh package.

The MacOS disk image contains a stand-alone application that you can double-click, and doesn't require Wish. If you prefer, however, you can use the Unix version on your Mac with whatever version of Wish you like, and start it from the terminal. See the FAQ for more on how to do that.

Naturally, you need CVS and/or Subversion, as well. They may already be on your system.

Tcl/Tk

SVN

CVS

For Windows, you need to get a PC version of diff. Diff and many more GNU utilities for Win32 can be found at this Unix Utils site, now on SourceForge.
Warning: I advise against mixing a Cygwin CVS client with a Windows-native Tcl/Tk interpreter. They don't get along with each other very well. Either go Windows-native all the way, or Cygwin all the way.

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It's also under Subversion control at Tigris under the name tksvn.

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