I've found CVS to meet my needs for medium scale Perl projects (> 25,000 lines), medium-size websites (> 1,000 graphic/content files) and for Java projects as well. The fact that it keeps everything in plain-text is a blessing, especially if you've ever had to deal with database-backed products like Microsoft Visual Source Safe.

The book Open Source Development with CVS is very good. It briefly discusses the CGI interface CVSweb, which is good enough to be used by all the projects on Sourceforge :-)

You can also get native Win32, Mac, Gtk and Java CVS interfaces at the WinCVS site.

Chris
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In reply to Re: recommendations for version control? by lachoy
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