no-herd dsomers@trevezel.com CVSNT is a fork of CVS. It provides several features over and above those provided by the traddiional CVS, specifically: Merge tracking via MergePoint attribute; Support for :sspi: authentication, i.e. users can use existing Windows domain accounts / passwords, rather than :pserver: and local password files; Support for SSL encrypted :sserver: authentication; Support for :ssh: authentication via built-in SSH client (based on PuTTY/Plink). No more need for :ext: and third-party software installation and setup on the client; Branch ACLs can be used to restrict access with chacl and viewed with lsacl; Remote user administration using cvs passwd command; Repository browsing via cvs ls command (update: now provided in standard CVS since version 1.12.9); LockServer on a second port replaces filesystem-based locks & provides file level locking; Runs as an NT service with a Windows control panel applet for easy configuration (CVSROOT/config scripts etc. still used though); More sophisticated / extra triggers available e.g. postcommit; Triggers also available via COM/DLL/so interfaces; Supports Unicode files with additional keyword expansion switches; Atomic Checkout behaviour ensures you get the right version of every file; Efficient storage of binary files using binary deltas; Even more efficient storage using compressed deltas (when space is more important than performance); Extended modules functionality using the modules2 file; Advanced Reserved Edits and checked commits (supercedes exclusive locking concept; Server-side default options (cvsrc); Require/request Encryption/Compression from the server - Lock out clients connecting over insecure protocols or using insecure/inefficient options; Less error-prone and more effective ways to enforce Unix LF where necessary using new keyword option -kL; Import without vendor branch and release tag.; "Import-and-go" by optionally turning freshly imported trees into a new sandbox automatically. No more need to purge and do a fresh checkout first; Brief Status output - See what's out-of-date at a single glance; Full versioned rename (still under development).