Versions and configurations

Support of configuration management and version control (CMVC) is an integral part of SNiFF+. The following features for handling versions and configurations are available:
Features
SNiFF+'s CMVC support comes with the following features:

- Checking out files from your Repository with either exclusive lock, concurrent lock, or no lock.
- Looking at a file's history and seeing which files in a project are locked by which people.
- Working with configurations - selected file versions grouped together under the same symbolic name.
- Working with change sets - a set of files checked in at the same time under the same symbolic name to the files.
- Working in branches of a file's version tree.
- Displaying two-way and three-way differences and merging versions, branches, change sets and configurations.
- Associating comments, dates and modifier information with versions, change sets, and configurations.
- Choosing a Default Configuration for a working environment.

| Note
| SNiFF+'s CMVC features provide the functionality available in the RCS version control system. If you use a tool other than RCS, please be aware that your tool may not support all of the functionality available in SNiFF+.

Available CMVC interfaces in SNiFF+
SNiFF+ provides an open and customizable interface to file and command-based version and configuration management tools. Please read the Release Notes to find out which interfaces are available.
For detailed information
For details about SNiFF+'s Version Control and Configuration Management features, please refer to Maintaining SNiFF+ Projects.