'''[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Bonsai%|%Bonsai]''' is a [SCM]
tool that lets you perform queries on the contents of a [CVS] archive; you can:
get a list of checkins, see what checkins have been made by a given person, or
on a given CVS branch, or in a particular time period.



** Attributes **

   website:   https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Bonsai

   project page:   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonsai/



** Description **

'''Bonsai''' is a really cool idea on how to "see" changes taking place during
a development cycle. The original implementation was by Terry Weissman, first
done in [Tcl], then later ported to [Perl]. It's built to run against [CVS]
using Perl, [MySQL], and your favorite webserver to display checkin history,
log information, diffs, and other assorted pieces of information in easy to
parse [HTML]. 

[EMJ]: I haven't found anything about why it got changed to Perl, or if the TCL verson is still around anywhere.

[PT]: Roughly the same thing happened to [bugzilla]. I think that Netscape have a lot of Perl hackers and no Tcl hackers is probably the main issue.


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