Some of the time (well, most of the time) you don't want to play directly with the CVS tools, command line or graphical. A much better way is to integrate it directly with your development environment. Please add your comments here with respect to different development tools.

CodeGuide#

Seems to have CVS integration in 3.0 version, but I don't know how good it is. Supports also Perforce.

Emacs#

Use the PCL-CVS package to get very good CVS support, including visual conflict manager, annotated change lists, etc.

JBuilder#

No idea. Please comment.

Since release 9 (I think it was that number) CVS support is even in the personal edition included. I use the enterprise edition. Integration is very well. CVSNT can't be used with JBuilder under windows. -- Guido

NetBeans#

NetBeans seems to have a CVS client integrated as well. Runs on Linux, MacOS X, OS/2, HP-UX, OpenVMS, and Windows.

Eclipse#

Eclipse has CVS running through its veins. Tightest integration with CVS you will find on the planet! Flavors are available for all major platforms.

IntelliJ IDEA#

IDEA has pretty nice CVS support. Handles the standard operations through the gui. The absolute coolest thing about IDEA's CVS support is the diff-editor. It's the most intuitive and best looking I've seen.

JDeveloper 10.1.3#

JDev 10.1.3 has CVS support now.