While setting up my workstation fresh I came across the new Tortoise CVS major 1.8 release…

This notable new version 1.8.0 of the enjoyable CVS client for Windows has some great new features that make the upgrade worth it.

There are lots of bug fixes and new features since the last stable release; for full details see the change log. but the really great changes are:

• Updated User Guide: hey – finally they have one, covering most of the functionality offered in TortoiseCVS.

• new Add dialog with treeview. The Add Contents now display the candidate files in an Explorer-like dialog with a treeview on the left and a list of files on the right. Various sorting methods and commands can be applied to make it easy to select the right files.

• Improved Commit dialog. The comment field now defaults to empty (so you won't have always the same comments for your updates so easy), and Ctrl-Up/Ctrl-Down select from comment history. It is also possible to automatically insert line breaks after each 80 characters.

• Annotate support. The CVS Annotate command ("who tf is to blame for this …?"-function) shows the output of "cvs annotate" in a special dialog and optionally highlights by author, date, or age. It is also possible to retrieve and compare revisions just like in the History and Revision Graph dialogs.

• Visual indication of mergepoints. The Revision Graph dialog indicates mergepoints with coloured arrows. [WOW!]

• All SSH parameters are user-definable. It is now easy to e.g. force SSH version 2 without resorting to batch files.

Make sure you install this one ...

more release notes in here and the changelog