ironing our pants into the universe

Everyone seems to hate CVS except me.

Over the years I've used Perforce, and MS Visual SourceSafe, but at the end of the day hosting on SourceForge in trandem with $79 USD for SmartCVS solves my problems.

I feel your need to flame, I feel your pain, but honestly I don't care. My two issues with CVS have always been UTF-8 and branching. And as a guy who dealt with Perforce branches in a fortune 500 company, I can be realistic and say most chose drama and staff turn-over instead of branching. The rest take a serious look at GIT. As for UTF-8, SmartCVS solves that just fine.

One problem I did encounter was that SmartCVS locks files. This is very "the other version control system" in the sense that it encourages check-out before coding and checking-in. That's fine when the organization asks of it. For sux0r it's ridiculous.

To disable this feature on OS X, open the Info.plist file within the SmartCVS.app in a text editor. You will find following lines:

<key>Properties</key>
<dict>
<key>apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar</key>
<string>true</string>
</dict>

Add another key-string pair:

<key>Properties</key>
<dict>
<key>apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar</key>
<string>true</string>
<key>smartcvs.permissions.disable</key>
<string>true</string>
</dict>

This will disable the permission setting feature. Good to go, commando style.